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One Poem Only
A daily reading. A quiet moment. One poem, center stage: just for now, just for you. A one-night-only show, in verse. Come back tomorrow. The curtain rises again.
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Sometimes I feel like writing by Junaid Ali Akbar
Sometimes I feel like writing Junaid Ali Akbar Sometimes I feel like writing... Writing words that could shake the earth, But how foolish of me to think, That…
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Signs by Defne Kartal
Signs Defne Kartal I don’t believe in signs but I do I beg for them daily, and when they arrive - A postcard, a dog, a friend, a group of musicians, a Canadian…
One Poem OnlySunday Recap & The prompt was to write by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead. Nov 3 - Naked by Danielle Martin @cosquelle.mind on Instagram…
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"Dear death" by Alexis M Levine
A poem inspired by Emily Dickinson Dear death How can I stay when you, more than life, make me feel seen? They call you cruel, but I have seen the gentleness…
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Nightmares are dreams too by Dimple Dinesh Lokhande
Nightmares are dreams too Dimple Dinesh Lokhande In the midnight sky, as breeze passes by, In our sleep, we tend to fly, To a place where dreams seem to lie…
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you wrote anyway by Abhilasha Ghosh
you wrote anyway Abhilasha Ghosh july 25th, 2025 you were told writing was a man’s terrain— ink too heavy, thought too sharp for your soft hands. so you wrote…
One Poem OnlyHer Absence by Katrina Kaye
Her Absence Katrina Kaye I do not regret the days I spent loving you in her absence. I do not regret your tempered touches as you searched for her skin under…
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Poetry Reading by Maggie Devers & An Exciting Announcement
Poetry Reading Maggie Devers After Chelsie Diane This is a remembering When we come together And read our truth. We have been doing this forever. They have…
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Naked by Danielle Martin
Naked Danielle Martin Naked in the truth that she is alone she hugs herself tightly and succeeds in creating the illusion of wellness. Damp eyes close as jaded…
One Poem OnlySunday Recap & Forty-Three Is Poetry by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead. Oct 27 - i don't remember being small by Momena Khan…
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"I would peel pomegranates for you—" by Hareem Ismail
I would peel pomegranates for you— Not just slice them open, but gently with my fingers stained red— I would learn its anatomy, the way they bruise and break…
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Coffin monologue: The non-rhyming rant poem by Manasvita Sukthankar
Coffin monologue: The non-rhyming rant poem Manasvita Sukthankar I love myself, but which one? Can I love the person that most hate? Does she deserve the ache…
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The Spider by Philippe Blenkiron
The Spider Philippe Blenkiron "Is God a Spider?" I asked, "constantly weaving electron threads into spiraling elemental webs? His iron will, spun with a silk…
One Poem OnlyGreen Soup by Tabitha Dial
Green Soup Tabitha Dial (Halloween Night 2020) From a quiet keeping-space, I promise my motherghost to create meals and music. Even if from dry bones and…
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What Are We by Laker Patience
What Are We Laker Patience What are we? is there even a we, or is it possibly just a you and a me, a concoction of delusion, desire, mismatched expectations…
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i don't remember being small by Momena Khan
i don't remember being small Momena Khan i was sitting beside her, my not-sister. we were eating oranges and she was laughing with her whole mouth open like…
One Poem OnlySunday Recap & "What 42 years of life have taught me" by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead. Oct 20 - Places Passing By by Paige Keller @pk_fictions on Instagram…
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Garden of Eden by Yonsiri Rojas
Garden of Eden Yonsiri Rojas lulling sunbeam through the boughs soothing ballad of a plum-haired doll hazy notes of pure joy her naked feet wet in fresh spring…
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Bills for Bills of Bills for Bills by Charlotte Stuart
Bills for Bills of Bills for Bills Charlotte Stuart They hand me bills for bills of bills for bills, Stacked like bricks in window sills. Pay what you owe…
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Seventh Wonder by Joba the Poète
Seventh Wonder Joba the Poète Seven wonders of the world yet I trip like the leaning tower of Pisa when you sing out my name with a nine minus two, or rather…
One Poem Only"If love were a predator," by McKenzie Hager
If love were a predator, I’d let it hunt me down. While it prowled, I’d shuffle the leaves just enough to be heard. I’d welcome the weight of its body against…
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Keeping It This Way by Swan Melloh
Keeping It This Way Swan Melloh I am not your property I rather tell myself than you who wears oblivion for shoes, walks without a knowing heart. I suppose…
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Places Passing By by Paige Keller
Places Passing By Paige Keller Sitting on a patio sipping tea under the sun, writing notes into my phone through the breeze. Imagining different days and new…
One Poem OnlySunday Recap & Cast Off by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead. Oct 13 - House of Childhood by Nataša Benedičič…
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"I dream of a happy ending." by Alena Peacock
I dream of a happy ending. Perfect and unyielding. A quiet love, so loud, its deafening. Where I would not ever have to question their affection. I'd be so…
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Tell Me by Evita Arakelian
Tell Me Evita Arakelian Tell me of a flavour I have forgotten, of a song I may have heard a stranger hum to her child in some store, some day. Tell me a story…
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Love Letter to the Lesion in My Brain by Erin Zarro
Love Letter to the Lesion in My Brain Erin Zarro TW: explicit language, illness, mentions of death Here’s a secret. This thing in my brain – this mass of cells…
One Poem Only"I want to escape this world." by Lipy Goyal
I want to escape this world. And sit with somebody in a quiet place. Looking at the stars, imagine a new world. Drinking silence in a cup of coffee The…
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"Where will we get" by Sophia Nerenberg
Where will we get With the attack? Will the caged bird Finally bend the metal? Or should it learn to pick the lock? Where will we get With the oppression? Will…
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House of Childhood by Nataša Benedičič
House of Childhood Nataša Benedičič I would rest in a secret garden Watering my unsaid thoughts For they had no other place Since they were “too much” Waiting…
One Poem OnlySunday Recap & Seek Truth by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead. Oct 6 - Remember by Olivia Woods @owibia_writes on Instagram, TikTok…
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Twenty-First. Night. Monday by Anna Akhmatova
Twenty-First. Night. Monday Anna Akhmatova Twenty-first. Night. Monday. Silhouette of the capitol in darkness. Some good-for-nothing–who knows why– made up the…
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"If a tree falls" by Amelia Dunn
"If a tree falls" Amelia Dunn If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to notice does it make a sound? Does its impact even hit the ground? Will the…
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Another Day in May by Anthony Robinson
Another Day in May Anthony Robinson Now more coffee and Brian Wilson And skittering creatures. I've eaten Tacos for three days straight and Dad Is still on…
One Poem Only"Gone are the days" by Rusha Chatterjee
"Gone are the days" Rusha Chatterjee Gone are the days when my house felt like home, now the rooms filled with thousand memories feels like a cage, suffocating…
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"Nobody is coming to save you" by Georgia Groza
"Nobody is coming to save you" Georgia Groza Nobody is coming to save you Stitch it back up, learn to live with it. The world doesn’t begin and end at the…
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Remember by Olivia Woods
Remember Olivia Woods Your apples were as savory as sunlight I can’t remember the last time they seemed so sweet The last time they were as red as roses The…
One Poem OnlySunday Recap & Kick It by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead. Sep 29 - Lebensabschnittspartner by Sarthak Mukherji @sarthaksays on…
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Bloodfruit by Abby Zhang
Bloodfruit Abby Zhang Say it, like you used to peel blood oranges with your teeth, Ma. The flesh splits soft and shivering under the pressure, its rind stuck…
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Silver Filigree by Travers Charron
Silver Filigree Travers Charron Before the day unbuttons its sky, while morning’s breath still clings to the grass, I find it— a single web, threaded between…
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i am not a poet by Kole Kealey
i am not a poet Kole Kealey i touched rock bottom before i ever touched a pen, so do not call me a poet call me your mother tongue, burning the back of your…
One Poem OnlyGrapes by Frankie Reed
Grapes Frankie Reed we hung together — tight, green, not yet sweet. small things, skin against skin, no space for air. you leaned into every breeze. I held…
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Taemong by Kimberly McAfee
Taemong Kimberly McAfee After Li-Young Lee* My mother had a dream of me, when she and I were one. She dreamed of a snake coiled on her belly. It was her…
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Lebensabschnittspartner by Sarthak Mukherji
Lebensabschnittspartner Sarthak Mukherji Lebensabschnittspartner. Life - section - partner. A gorgeous German distillation of something about as mystifying as…
One Poem OnlySunday Recap & Born Artist by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead. Sep 22 - "a walk from my Eve to my Lilith" by Eva Garg @thelifedraft…
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Cliff by Ofelia ferch Rhos
Cliff Ofelia ferch Rhos Salt spattered on chalk carves out the rough-hewn shape of thought: the cliff is a canvas where they escape me, and become mammoths on…
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Winds of reverie by Philippa Drake
Winds of reverie Philippa Drake A lord soars into the azure expanse forsaking blood bonds chasing the winds of liberty to repose in distant islands where no…
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Clouds Have Always Been Women by Nanki Kandhari
Clouds Have Always Been Women Nanki Kandhari Clouds have always been women— braided in softness, swollen with stories they were never allowed to pour. They…
One Poem OnlyAsh and Gardens by Jessica Sorya
Ash and Gardens Jessica Sorya She asks me, “What did I want at nineteen that I have now?” I answer, “Nothing. Everything I wanted is gone.” Every man I…
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Nikomis by Shelby Larkin
Nikomis Shelby Larkin Your smile sung out to sunshine & carried it across ages & every sunny day has a piece of you in it I think of you when a butterfly lands…
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"a walk from my Eve to my Lilith" by Eva Garg
a walk from my Eve to my Lilith a swim within my own soul One was made from your rib, the other, from the same soil as you. One sacrificed herself for your…
One Poem OnlySunday Recap & Theory by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead. Sep 15 - First Person Account of a Seed by Vinita Agrawal…
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A Pocketful of Joy by Mishty Singh
A Pocketful of Joy by Mishty Singh Joy doesn't always dance in parades or call your name from mountaintops. Sometimes, it drifts in quietly the same way light…
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When I fall asleep by Jessica Lyon-Wall
When I fall asleep by Jessica Lyon-Wall I was 12 when they brought me back. The process Was a slow one, over a year I went unnoticed, Pale, thin, and guzzling…
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Sometimes by Hania Anwar
Sometimes by Hania Anwar Sometimes I wish I was born a Man in true Plath-ian fashion to roam the desolate fields at Dusky Dawn without the gripping fear of…
One Poem OnlyI am the dove by GiGi
I am the dove by GiGi I am the dove. My song is mournful, a single nerve splitting cry out in pain because it’s fucking raining and pouring with pressure and…
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the listener by Laura Theis
the listener Laura Theis her magic was so gentle you may not have known it for a spell the way she was able to listen so openly that we were each coaxed into…
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First Person Account of a Seed by Vinita Agrawal
First Person Account of a Seed by Vinita Agrawal All night, the face of awning green hovers above me, its branches carved partly with the grimace of my own…
One Poem OnlySunday Recap & Play More by Maggie Devers
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…
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Mabon by Danielle Marie Cahill
Mabon Danielle Marie Cahill We choose three glowing apples in the greengrocer and take them home: one for each of us, polished scarlet. I slice them…