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

Jan 19 - Chasing the Light by Old Fart with a Guitar @old_fart_with_a_guitar on Instagram. Stream his music: OFWAG LinkTree.

Jan 20 - A Merciless Winter by Farida Shamim

Jan 21 - Don't call it hope or you'll scare it away by Candace Kronen rom Candace Kronen @candacekronenpoetry on Instagram. Her Substack: Stories I'll Tell My Daughter. She is co-editor and publisher of If You Ever: Poems Inspired by Kim Addonizio. Listen to me read, When I can’t sleep, I Google how the world ends. by Candace on Instagram at @rembrandts.cure.

Jan 22 - Shimmer by Jessie Marie @Jessie.Kaiser on Instagram and Threads.

Jan 23 - “Hope isn't a shy thing” by Eileen Strawberry @Soulsounds20 on Instagram. Wayward Traveller on Substack. Her poetry appears in Beautiful Ways to Say edited by Katie Elizabeth.

Jan 24 - Same Old Story by Amelia Cabantog @meels_the_poet on Instagram.

Jan 25

Burn the Flag

Maggie Devers

Burn all the flags
Strew the tea in the harbor
Fill the kettle or the pot
Pour it out, drink it down
Divine the future

Free from false idols
Free from men who say
There is no future in the leaves,
That all we can hope for in the saucer
Is bitter grit in our teeth

But they don't know that ash is soft
Between our...