Becky Ventura

Becky Ventura grew up in Nebraska and now resides in Michigan, USA. She is a retired music teacher. In April 2019, she received the Dearborn Mayor’s Arts Educator Award with US Congressional Recognition. Ventura has two poetry collections: Radiant Jukebox (2021) and Quintessential Cubicles (2024) both published by Wild Rising Press. Her poems have been published in The Art of Listening, Poetry Pacific, Painted Pebbles and in in several Poetry Society of Michigan’s anthologies. Ventura has studied with Judyth Hill, Sarah Winn, and Jane Huffman.

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► Becky Ventura's microchap & (selected) poems are available below. Download the PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap with Selected Poems

S'Mitten

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Cover photo taken
on Mackinac Island

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Prayer to the Elements

Thank you, fire.
Lightening strikes, trees fall to ash.
Soil lush, fertile.

Thank you, water.
Filters through rocks,
quenches our thirst.

Thank you, earth.
Beauty abounds
yields fruit, grain, vegetables.

Thank you, air.
Fills our lungs
gives us life.

Ruby Throat

Precision flyers who can stop instantly
hang motionlessly in midair

Move up, down, side to side
as if controlled by a joystick

They hover, sip nectar
savor honeysuckle sweetness

Life buzzes around them
fast-paced, frenetic

Zip here zip there
Straight fast flight to a nearby branch

Bee-line back to claim
flowers and feeders

And sometimes
when they sit still for a minute

It breaks
my
heart

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