A Poem by Valeri Beers

Circus Love

I taste
sticky sweet
cotton candy
kisses

I smell
hay
popcorn
smoke
animals

I see
lions lined up
I hear
trainer shouting
whip cracking

I sneak
stares
at you,
and feel
the same
excitement
&
uncertainty
when
I see
the acrobats
fly so high

my heart has no net.

Valeri Beers is from Bangor, Maine. She has been writing all her life. She is inspired to write by listening to music and needing to remember things. Valeri has been published in a number of print and online literary magazines including Zest literary magazine, Far Away literary magazine, The Writer's Drawer and Kumquat Poetry. She has links to her poems on valeribeers.com and on her own poetry site wordsoftheval2000.wordpress.com. You can also connect with her on Facebook (Valeri Beers) and Twitter (@theval2000)