Sunday Recap & I’m a protest poet by Maggie Devers

Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.Jul 14 - Bricklayer by Katrina Kaye @poetkatrinakaye on Instagram, Threads, and BlueSky. Her website: poetkatrinakaye. Her chapbook No Longer Water is available through Echobird PressJul 15 - Twenty-First. Night. Monday by Anna AkhmatovaJul 16 - i'm going to spoil the ending for you by Katie Cecilia @katiececiliapoetry on Instagram. Her book Ebb and flow: a poetry collection is out now. katie ♡ on SubstackJul 17 - Two of Cups by Maggie DeversJul 18 - unwritten by Zaïnab El Meziani @zainabelmeziani on Instagram. Her book Matters of the Heart: A Chapbook of Love Poems is out now. You can read more of her work on her website: www.zainabelmeziani.com. Zaïnab El Mezianion SubstackJul 19 - I feel the weight of always needing to be helpful by Eden S @edenspoems888 on Instagram. Her book Cauldron of the Cosmos is out nowJune 20 - I’m a protest poet Maggie Devers And my lines ooze loveWith every frivolous word.Where else to put such horrors,How else to remind you:Of the way new tree shoots Poke up high and straight at first,Yearning for the lightAnd tremble slightly in the windAnd how you can’t even remember What the elm looks like without leaves—Well you can—But right now it is so, so green And the blades shimmerAs the sun passes through So gently.How tender we are.How else to remind you:How tender we are. More from Maggie Devers ↓Read my debut poetry book, For My DaughterFollow me on Instagram for more poetry @rembrandts.cure