All styles welcome.
No foul language, no lewdness and
no heavy slant on religion, please.

Poems to be no longer than 24 lines
Spaces between the stanzas count as lines.
The poem title and author name are not
included in the count.

No more than 6 long words or 8 short words on a line to assure
another member’s poem may fit beside your poem on the same page.

Please remember we have limited space and need
to give everyone a place in the newsletter for their poetry.

Previously published poems accepted as long as you,
the author, hold the copyright.

If the poem has been previously published
and you would like a credit to appear with the poem,
(First printed in...) or
(from Book Title, publisher & year)
please include the details under the poem
and we'll include it in the newsletter.

Please include your name on the front page with the poem.

Deadline for the Next Issue is
July 15, 2013

Poems/Recipies may be sent in the body of an email (no attachments please) to:

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or by regular post to:
I.B. Iskov
Verse Afire Editor
#710 - 65 Spring Garden,
Toronto, On M2N 6H9.

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Poems that missed the recent issue of Verse Afire

It’s Over Denials burden was cleverly clothed. Season to season snowdrifts built white walls of evasion. Wearing matching parkas of hypocrisy warms another winter’s cool secret. Diplomatic deceits, a broken record scratching the hearts vinyl cover. Anger-trapped country/western song. Johnny Faustus band Bargain Boys sing in a truck-stop juke box corner. In our kitchen an iceberg passes. Inside its core your master list appears. Your chilling voice seriously reads the fait accompli ten demandments. Arguments melt as icy lips lick victory. In one cold blooded gulp, you swallow the lost past. Deep beneath frigid logic surface you’ll never know a perfect undertow of pain, passing over its newest scar of loss. David C. Brydges