Sunday Recap & Round and Round by Maggie Devers

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

Jul 7 - worlds without blueprints by Paper Trail Poetry @paper_trail_poetry on Instagram

Jul 8 - Fringford Brook by Violet Jacob

Jul 9 - The Eagle with Blue Feathers by Kimmery Moss @kimmerywrites on Instagram. Her book Wolf Mother: A New Love Story is out now. Wolf Words: A Poetry Subscription for Women

Jul 10 - To take death by Maggie Devers: @rembrandts.cure on Instagram. Her book, For My Daughter, is out now.

Jul 11 - I'm small, meek, pale and weak by Holly Fries @hollyf83 on Instagram.

Jul 12 - O, Cynthia by Cyn Grace Sylvie @cyngracesylvie and @greystrega on Instagram. And on Substack @greystrega

Cyn Grace, The Grey Strega

June 13 - Round and Round

Maggie Devers

I can’t remember what it was
Musical chairs
And before that,
Let me grab it . . .
I missed it because I really wanted to know about musical chairs

I realized it’s an intuitive game—
The winners tune in to the music master
They know the song will stop before it will stop,
That slight inhalation 
And they’re ready to sit
Before these rest

She almost made it to the final
Being in the last three
And I realized how much 
She’s just like me

They played in the water 
Then drank pineapple juice in the sun,
Knowing how to live so young 

Ah, it was the bee
That she captured and “might not have made it
Or might have been very, very tired”
That was the thing
I remember now the music has stopped
And my mind no longer goes round in circles.

Submissions are open. If you have a poem you want me to read on the podcast, now’s the time.

I’m looking for the one that lights you up. The one you’re proud of. The one you can’t read without crying. The one that makes you feel something big.

Let’s make space for the one this Fall on One Poem Only.

Deadline is Thursday, July 31.

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