Tag Archives: National Poetry Month

Brave     My friend sends me a NYTimes article about Nazi-fighting Jewish women during the holocaust, and she asks, “Do you think you would have been as brave as these women?”     It depends, maybe, on where I … Continue reading →

The Rather Mystical Art of Fighting on the Backside My love– Think of a good pigdog as a stretch across your chest.Open that thing up. So what kind of anarchicalstatement will we make today? We’ve gotten used to the comfortof … Continue reading →

A Poem is a Spiritual Suitcase   Do not wander from your path any longer, for you are not  likely to read your notebooks or your deeds of ancient Rome  and Greece or your extracts from their writings, which you  … Continue reading →

Coping From your perspective, you were under pressure. Coping and trying to handle the words. I don’t know the minds & hearts of others. I will celebrate you. Encouraging you to be true. Copyright 2021 by Valeri Beers Bio Valeri … Continue reading →

Dreams of Their Own   Ardent beauty in birth of a child A love so tender, a love like no other. Awesome beauty shines with glorious   Blessings As we watch our children grow with   A sense of pride. … Continue reading →

Alto cumulus                                                                           Erratic, bumpy, wave point ripples, rank upon rank of gnarled  liquid   that barely holds together.  And it’s span– Praise it!  Praise for the gap,   the gape, the gate torn off leaving variegated sky-ways open to … Continue reading →

I want to thank everyone who joined in this year’s 30 for 30 National Poetry Month celebration, sponsored by Potomac Review. There were many fine poems and many fine revisions which both surprised and delighted. I hope that those of … Continue reading →