This Week In Substack Poetry 15/2025
Let's dive into 10 poems published from the 9th to the 15th of April 2025!
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From Firle Beacon
by Michael Fox
It might be my weakness for English people, but this has so much charm, and I encourage you to listen to the provided voiceover and reading of the poem. It provides in the way the best a poem can; it touches an epic time frame by giving us perspective. It explains by watching and pointing.
I don't want my kids
by Tania's Butterflies
This will warm your fucking heart — if you are not a monster, that is! Like the previous poem, it makes something so ephemeral as close to tangible as possible. It takes your humanity and squeezes it for all it has to offer. It's literally the kind of poem that would make me buy the whole book without thinking.
The Hands That Raised Me
by The Forgotten Muse
This poem speaks to me in a way it might not have been intended to. Mother's love is one of the best clichés because it seems universal, but it is not. It often takes some growing up and being old to learn that you never got it. It is wired because it feels like you never had a mother.
This poem is not about this, but that's the lesson, your poetry can touch people in ways you don't intend.
Dark Smudge Font
by Todd Christopher Thurman
Some people hold back in front of us but are bad at hiding their ways, especially over time. It’s easy to imagine them as genius, maybe humble, and looking for normalcy. Some people are just scared to be themselves.
Natural Blues
by Michelle McLemore
This reminds me of a night in my favorite bar back in the past. A guy with a guitar showed up, more Stevie Ray Vaughn than B.B. King, playing blues classics for tips. It was warm outside and dark. He was dressed like a TV cowboy, and I will never forget it.
New Unfinished Poem
by BB Borne
This poem picks up a feeling I have had for a while. It’s not easy to break free and have a plan afterward.
Characters Exist In Real-Life too
by Nilofer Neubert
I love the presentation, but as the authors ask you to comment on what the poem means to you, I won't color your opinions here. Go read it and write a comment!
Ties
by Maggie McCombs
"Just get over it" is the kind of advice no one wants to hear, but people still give it. The fact is that it's not our choice to get over people, and that's good. The only way it could be is if we were never close, to begin with.
Full Day
by Cendrine Marrouat
Saying good-bye is always wired. Even it it looks like the world is tearing you apart, there is always a choice made in the background, about whats more important.
Between Suns
by Nikki Moore
The night frees us from out worldliness, thats why we are addicted to it.
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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
Wonderful round up, thank you for introducing me to more wonderful writers!
Thank you very much for this.
I love your insight about poetry resonating with people in ways probably never even anticipated.
Thank you for the awareness.
I see that while having a mother’s love should be a given, for most people the reality is much more complicated.