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

Aug 18 - As I sit frustrated at the world’s apathies by Mar Lamar @marlamarrr on Instagram. Listen to her songs To the Moon & Someone to Blame now.

Aug 19 - She will always be an unfinished poem. by Nur Houda Or @neverjustathought on Instagram.

Aug 20 - In which I explain myself by Alex Dawson @alexdawcreates on Instagram. Second Nature on Substack. Her book, All these Living Things, is out now. She curated and edited the anthology, Upon Learning That: A Collection of Poetry Based on Facts About the Natural World. It is out now.

Aug 21 - I Seek Solace I Seek Peace by Ro Hefzu @ro_hefzu on Instagram and Facebook. Ro Hefzu on Substack.

Aug 22 - Hope is Dancing by James Roethlein @jroeth71 on Instagram. His books: Musing on the Cricket Game of Life Part 1 1/2 (2018), An Extravagant Way of Saying Nothing (2020), Letters to Roxanne (2022), and Writing With Scissors (2022)

Aug 23 - Home by Narayani Goenka @star_lit_words on Instagram. She is featured in Across Latitude & Language: World Poetry Anthology published by Delhi Poetry Slam.

Aug 24 -

Full Moon in Capricorn

Maggie Devers

I made potato soup with chicken stock, butter and cream

And felt like a wealthy peasant

To know such bounty as potato