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

Sep 8 - Broken by Ani Leland @neversent.poetry on Instagram. Her book, Echoes and Embers, the first in a trilogy co-authored with T.C. James, will be published this fall.

Sep 9 - Pop Punk Therapy (Kristen’s Version) by Kristen Rosasco @poetryandpatchouli on Instagram. Her upcoming anthology, Poetry and Patchouli, is out soon.

Sep 10 - I Watched Gaza Burn From My Bed by Fatima Zahra Gul @fatimaasarchive_ on Instagram.

Sep 11 - Koi Pond by Isra Cheema @tiramisruu on Instagram. Isra Cheema on Substack.

Sep 12 - Grief is like a corpse in the land of the living. by Kimeysia @the.chaotic_urbanpoet on Instagram.

Sep 13 - Mabon by Danielle Marie Cahill @daniellecahillwriter on Instagram.

Sep 14 - Play More

Maggie Devers

I have this little fantasy that my daughter’s hippy school is raising a bunch of radicals

And imagine them chanting “resist” in unison

But then I realize that’s what they’re doing all day

In every moment that they are authentically true to themselves

And we can too.

Liberation looks like many things

Hanging upside down on the monkey bars with no hands

Standing on the highest part of the play structure and observing the world below

Painting, drawing, reading

When we light our hearts on fire just to feel good, we are resisting.

So play more, love more, be silly more, break the rules more

Just to feel good

And count it as an act of rebellion,

Because it is.

More from Maggie Devers ↓

• Read my debut poetry book, For My Daughter
• Follow me on Instagram for more poetry @rembrandts.cure

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