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

Mary Mayer Shapiro

HOT HOUSE                          


The room was 

Like a tropical 

Forest 

Hot, overheated 

Seething with plants 

Miniature trees 

Flowers 

Ivy climbing  

Up the wall 

Muggy 

Hard to breath 

Feeling like 

Boiling water 

Steam going up 

Forming vapor 

Then cooling 

Dripping from the  

Ceiling 

Raining inside 


 

 

HOT OFF THE PRESSES 


Hot off the presses 

Unsubstantiated news 

One sided story 

Truth mixed with 

Untruths 

Or just out 

And out lies 

Fairly tales 

In real life 

Do not end 

With success of 

The innocent 

Bullies and villains 

Are given sympathy 

Who said 

Crime doesn't pay 


 


TOO MUCH 


Sitting on the 

Barstool 

Too tipsy 

With tootsie 

Used the spittoon 

 

Deciding to get 

A tattoo 

Maybe a 

Cartoon character 

 

Visted the zoo 

Saw a  

Saber tooth 

Tiger, Cockatoos 

 

Used the toothbrush 

Toothpaste and 

Toothpick to  

Keep the cavities 

Or tooth aches away 

 

Misunderstood 

What you said 

Don't be a stooge 

Stoolpigeon 

Stooping to that 

Level 

 

Dine on 

Tooth fish 

Toad stools 

 

Platoon 

Company of troop 

Led by Lieutenant 

Tactical situation 

Agility and flexibility 

Twenty to fifty-five 

Specific structures 

And missions 

Reconnaissance securing 

Key positions 

 

You stood 

Stooped and jumped 

 

Too often 

You toot 

Your horn 

Time to leave 

Tootles 


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