This Week In Substack Poetry 10/2025
Let's dive into 10 poems published from the 5th to the 11th of March 2025!
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Hair Gel
An exceptional poem that contains unique observations about the absurdity around us. It is about control, disappointment and how they transcend our lives.
Read it here or visit: diggywrites.substack.com
The First Eye
Storytelling in poetic form does not happen often anymore and might be an acquired taste. Let’s go and acquire it with GardenWild!
Read it here or visit: gardenwild.substack.com
Blind Man at Bethsaida
Who am I to decline Jesus healing hands? This poem weaves Christian stories with irony and fun while staying profound. It’s something to sincerely like and think about.
Read it here or visit: substack.com/@theflood
Four haiku
Until now, I have not featured Haiku, as it is one of the most challenging forms to get right. Haiku is often sold as trivial when it is not. Billy Mills gets it right and catches four distinct moments you can touch and feel while reading the Haiku.
Read it here or visit: substack.com/@millsbi
Twin Cities
Berlin at night often feels like an empty space, like God popped people out of existence. When I wake up and walk through Berlin, everyone is lost between their dreams and their beliefs about how they can be achieved. This poem is not about Berlin, but it could be.
Read it here or visit: mathewsnyder.substack.com
Sunset
As the author did, I will give you room for your own experience and inspiration for this one.
Read it here or visit: daankatz.substack.com
Whatever Progress I Made
I can relate to this. I have a massive tree in front of my windows too, you can see it in the email header or my logo. Trees are a symbol of time, displaying the current season and how time moves on.
Read it here or visit: jopomojo.substack.com
Consider the Songbirds
Rilke wrote that we should observe our everyday life, the supposedly mundane, and write about these things to grow as poets.
Read it here or visit: writeyourselffree.substack.com
Beautiful Ruin
One tragic aspect of love is that it can become overwhelming, chasing away its target. It feels like punishment for something you cannot shake of, because its is the person you are.
Read it here or visit: substack.com/@aimeepaige
Ode to Poetry
This is the perfect closing for the newsletter. I did many things in my life, but poetry was always a common thread, and if I lost it, it came back. It heals me, it hurts me, it shows me the truth. Thinking about it reminds me of these song lyrics:
If you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ
People of letters, your warning stands clear:
Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit
Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear— The Wrote & The Writ, Johnny Flynn
Read it here or visit: blueembers.substack.com
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Thank you!
If you know a talented poet (I might be you!) message me or comment the Substacks you want to see featured! If you have any other feedback, I’m happy to receive it too!
How poems are chosen
I researched a rather long list of poets from Substack and will choose five to ten of them at more or less random while aiming at a diverse collection. The only other qualifying measurement is that the poem must be published in the last seven days. It is a weekly roundup, after all!
Godspeed, Tim
I can’t wait to read this selection!
Thank you so much, Tim!