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Memorial Day by Valeri Beers

Memorial Day
by Valeri Beers

All gave some
Some gave all
Just take a moment & remember
When you’re having a ball

For the price they
were willing to pay
you don’t have to
go to work or school today

I don’t want to be
a downer at your barbecue
or make you feel guilty about your
long weekend plan
Just take a moment & remember
why you can

——-

 

 

 

 

Thank you Literature Today :)

My poem “ancient static” was chosen for this anthology. I am honored 🙂

PLEASE (and thank you) vote for Starpull :)

April is gone and, with it, the 30 for 30 poetry event. It’s now time to vote for your favorite poem.

If you have not had a chance to read the poems posted during April, please take some time to do so. We had some very fine poems this year from some very find poets, so read through them, choose one and vote for it by going to www.mikemaggio.net. The poll will be on the right side of the main  web page.  The poet whose poem gets the most votes will get a signed copy of my novel, The Wizard and the White House. The poll will be open until May 6^th. And please note: you may only vote once.

So spread the word. And thanks to all the poets who participated this year and to those individuals who shared their comments.

 

“Star Pull” by Valeri Beers

My poem “Star Pull” on Mike Maggio’s poetry page

 

Thank you Mike Maggio for including me in the 30 for 30 Celebration this month 🙂

 

 

Thank you Literature Today :) Volume 4

Friday Poetry Prompt

 

Today’s poetry prompt comes from a horror narrator in Croatia 🙂  (Thank you Tin!)

 

 

Poetry Prompt: “colder than space”

 

my poem from this prompt:

Colder Than Space – by Valeri Beers

No one
to
hear your cries
as I
eat you
with
hot sauce & chopsticks
gently

 

 

Thank you Literature Today :)

 

my poem “Wrong Name” is in here 🙂

Wrong Name by Valeri Beers

Making out
in
the limo
Can’t see
through the
tinted glasshe
loved her
&
called her
by
the
wrong name

Sexy voice
even
saying
his name
by
mistake

Happy New Year :)

 

 

New Year by Valeri Beers

No revising
this one
No revisiting
that one

Try to
find
new words
for
old problems
Try to
save
the
good ones

Remember
Remember
Remember

I
will be
the
poetry person
among
the
book people

Remember
Remember

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About this poem:  What if poems were
like calendars?  You had to throw them
away & write all new poems?  Erica
Jong told me to try to save the good ones 🙂

Have you seen the movie Fahrenheit
451? At the end of the movie, the
“book people” have remembered a book,
committed it to memory and then burned it.

FREE poetry today for 24 hours :)

The Great Poetry E Book Free For All! (click here)

 

My book, …details…. is available for FREE 🙂  these poetry books are all PDFs 🙂

49 E-books (pdfs) available for FREE download 🙂

Poets including:

Marianne Slzyk
Joan McNerney
Valeri Beers
Rick Lupert
Martin Willits Jr.
Annie
Hillary Lion
I.B. Rad
David Chorlton
Sari Krosinsky
Carol Shilibeer
Dean Miller
Jim Babwe
Ron Singer
Bob Cooper
Samatha Terrell
Bruce Taylor
Babru Samal
Don Kingfisher Campbell
Katie Lawington
Jim Bennett
Barbara Phillips
David Feela
Chas Stramash
Scott Wannberg
LB Sedlacek
Rosalind Lee
Melodic Rose
Scott Ferry
F.J. Bergmann
Rie Sheridan Rose
Bill Yarrow
D.L. Lang
Cheryl Snell
Christopher Fuqua
J. H. Johns
John Sweet
Richard Rensberry
A.V. Santhohkumar
Dan Fitzgerald