Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Too Hot are now published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, October 25th between 3 and 4:30 pm PST.

Friday, October 17, 2025

Marieta Maglas

Screaming Marionettes


Clustered eyes; living in dread,

that immobilizing dread before

the bullets unleashed with no mercy,

deeply unleashed by the cruelty,

in a shooting scenario of those,

who must be weary

of always pouncing on their prey,

those helpless preys of hate,

that terrifying hate, which

grows weary of love

as well as

pleasure grows weary of suffering,

that profound suffering,

which calms the insanity down,

that round insanity like a frigid,

damp, rosy-red hue,

rosy-red hue in ring-like patches,

a colossal Quincke swelling

and a raucous, cooling,

clamorous breath,

snorting breath like

a lamenting melody,

a melody of love for

a dance of demise,

a painful demise for

many hot marionettes,

exquisite marionettes

metamorphosing

into frigid wax figures,

desolate figures

weeping and wailing in

their crimson downpour

of emotions,

crimson emotions refining

their days of wine and roses,

cool days with twinkling smiles

in caverns of cold darkness.




Dancing with Baron Thorsten

 

I beheld your tears

cascading down

as you gazed through your

translucent escutcheon,

epitomizing

the beauty of God: cosmic osmosis

and herald angels.

The red liquid that dripped down

bore a dense foam

to wall in our feelings.

The chalice overflowed with wine

forming a heart shape.

I yearned to retreat into our space

and to perish there.

I still yearn to return to our time

and to fade away there.

I still crave His infinity, and

I wish, once more, to dissolve within it.

 

At the tables surrounding us,

people appeared to be lost in thought.

They seemed to be reflections

in those shattered mirrors,

adorning the walls: introspection,

truthfulness, and self-awareness.

They grew increasingly indifferent and

complacent; self-satisfied.

I raised the cup to my lips and savored

the wine, which was delightfully cool.

I drank it all until

it vanished completely—nonexistent.

It was a chalice of sorrow.

It scraped against my throat.

The transparent liquid rendered the truth visible.

It was our untold truth.

I yearned to elevate my spirit.

We began moving in a dance-like manner.

It was our crowning dance

in that chaotic tempo of

those evanescent moments.

I would love to be kissed

over and over again.

Yet the tavern was crammed

with hot human mouths

exhaling and mantling the windows with

a veil of condensed steam.

It was a shroud of anarchic noises.

Those mouths instantly froze my feelings.

Some tears trickled down your pale face.

I stood tall for once

and departed from that moment

irrevocably and voiceless.

I had to choose a different thoroughfare.

I entered through the main gate of my realm,

a world devoid of meaning

without your love; without love.

I did not glance back.

I still do not look back.

Over and above, I knew that

you were watching me leave,

and I knew that this love

was my existence.

It remains my existence,

steering this world towards

divided feelings,

broken feelings, still bleeding,

a fierce defiance against

the divine, perhaps.

Now, I realize that as long as

the divine exists, this love can endure.

 



A Spiritual Hue


I use colors to recreate

a sacred, unveiled image

while concealing the past

in a dance of opposites.

I am akin to a painter

in pursuit of a divine hue

while yearning

to make my voice heard,

rather than as a philosopher

striving to grasp the human genesis.

This hue resembles a reverie

suspended between

ultraviolet and infrared thoughts.

It mirrors the mauve of Aurora Australis

gracing a Tahitian canvas

belonging to Paul Gauguin

or echoes the green of Aurora Borealis

adorning a masterpiece

belonging to Vincent van Gogh.

This hue embodies The Unfinished Symphony,

a resonance in the deafness of

Ludwig van Beethoven.

This hue speaks of a philosophical self

harboring a sense of sanctity within.

Baptism in the depths of water;

then, in the fire; hotness;

eyes that perceive the divine

in a nameless color.

This hue of eternity is hot:

the healing rays illuminating my essence;

a beacon for the woodland of

my burgeoning emotions;

emotions akin to those of evergreens.

The essence of humanity exists in harmony.


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