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Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.

Aug 11 - Silence the Foe by Gloriaea. @_gloriaea on Instagram. Gloriaea’s Atelier on Substack. She has an upco…

Baby Blue Marble

Old Fart with a Guitar

You ask me why in the world do many little things matter to me? Why in the world can’t I ever let anything slide? You say i’m piling up mountains of sand i’ve …

Words Are Fairy Dust

Misti Marie Elmore

Presumably in disbelief I chased the star of Psalms Sang a song of lamentation Wisdom proved me wrong Temptation swept me into her I confessed and swam away I …

I Will Sing Louder Than Bombs

Aslam Sheik

Sleep, my child, though the night is wide, I’ll hold the dark from coming inside. Close your eyes, don’t hear the sky, Just hear my voice, I’m standing by. I…

The Biggest Lie

Gabrielle Kay

The biggest lie you've been told Is that the world doesn't need you That no one needs you to understand Or needs you to be understood That the world doesn't need you to…

i promised myself i will not write about you

Bushra Iqbal

but here i am breaking it in two like the flesh of a fruit gone terribly bad the sand breaks softly with every step i take i like the progres…

Silence the Foe

Gloriaea

Horror Horror Blood poured from my eyes Every word you penned Dug through my irises But why foil the ink Stuff it back in the pen Hold one end to their jugular Until t…

Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.

Aug 4 - Until We Are Soft Again by Shauna Richmond @shauna_lee_art_poetry on Instagram. Her book, It’s Time to…

Voice

Yvette Francis

Voice to speak Why don’t they listen? Voice to teach Do they really learn? Voice to whisper… to soothe Will they take comfort? Voice to declare… truth Will they run away? Voice o…

I've had too much to drink today The haze of smoke blurs the edges of my deepest musing and leads my mind to wonder Like a restless traveler These songs I ruminate on are the blood curling around my…

Speak

Maggie Devers

She speaks in poetry Like she doesn’t know another way. Seriously, there is a soundtrack to her life. It’s not even main character energy, It’s ‘I embody me’ energy. How brave to…

ancient remedies

Raquel Medora

can you tell me? how the roots and the leaves listen while i place my hand on their trunks and ask them to whisper their wisdom as if the bark could bark orders…

meet me under the celestial croissant with its ridged crispy dough and cream-colored insides dreamy craters perfect for scooping up space like blueberry jam edible stardust speckled throughout find…

Until We Are Soft Again

Shauna Richmond

I know a place where living takes flight where we can plant willow and watch them grow gracefully cascade to the ground and together we can bring life to …

Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.

Jul 28 - Unholy Hunger by katherine kier. @katherinekier on Instagram and Substack. You can listen to her soun…

you're so hot your heart will never break again once you realize the absence you grieve is a presence within asking to receive the magic you perceive is but you staring into yourself I wish I cou…

Nights Full of Terror

Nicole Marie

Remember the vision you had? For a split second, That caused you to feel complete terror? A thought, That chilled your body to the bone. You told yourself, You wou…

Irises

Maggie Devers

I had to write her story Before I heard it from the lips of another, Even a writer I admired— I had to release it first. So I stopped reading To write it down And saw it dance …

Mourning Politely

Anne Card

sorry to bother you it's just that when I was new to the world he was the first person to ever hold me please excuse me it's just that even as an adult he'd reach for …

Noon.

Sophie M. (Almon) Hensley 1866 – 1913

No ripple stirs the water, No song-bird wakes the grove, Calm noon-tide sways his sceptre, And hushes even love. On earth the sun-god bend…