This Week In Substack Poetry 16/2025
Let's dive into 10 poems published from the 16th to the 22nd of April 2025!
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A Certain Kind of Weather
by Elzada James
This poem invites you to wander your mind, soak up nature, and consider your paths. It’s a nature poem in the best sense of the word.
The Statues
by Huck
This exquisitely crafted poem takes a perspective I haven’t considered myself, even though it’s close. Berlin has myriads of statues. During the bombings in the Second World War, many of them were thrown into the Spree to protect them. To this day, statues are missing, and now and then, one is found in the river, where statues are still doing their job—just underwater.
hog
by What’s Her Name
This is a raw, visceral voice from someone grappling with overwhelming grief, isolation, and a profound sense of being physically and emotionally confined. It is not an easy read, by all means, but it is worth the effort you invest.
While the World Laughed Outside
by Lex Orgera
I love the message and story Lex tells based on Shel Silverstein's "Cloony the Clown." It made me think, reflect, and sad, and Lex's observation will linger in my mind for a while.
In wildness is the salvation of the world
by Alix Klingenberg
I thought about making an Earth Day special, but ultimately, I decided to leave you in Alix's capable hands. She weaves the topic of the earth dying with her childhood and current experiences to a powerful conclusion. Her nature poem was one of the highlights of my week; it filled me with a longing to escape into an autumnal forest.
Serenity
by Bradley Ramsey
A powerful poem, it contrasts nature's placelessness with our need to make it a place and fix it in a picture. We do so to be reminded of where we should be, but we can't quite be where we were made to be.
earth day confession
by jared mulhair
This is a brilliant poem. I don’t know what to say about it. Go read it now!
God Made Me a Rambling Man
by Jonathan Potter
Me too. Short and sweet, what's not to love?
The Art of Self-Improvement (Age 6 to 21)
by Thomas Ridge
This reminded me of my childhood, and I think most of us feel the same way. The last verse made me think about how we guide children and young people into their lives without really enabling them to consider themselves.
The Night I Buried My Childhood in the Back Garden
by Gregory Patrick
This hit me hard. It paints a strong picture of a moment in our lives that usually is not explicit. When we decide it’s time to be serious. The poem fills me with sentimentality for times I can not return to but would like to visit once more.
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Thank you!
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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
This is a great collection. Nice start to my morning. Thanks!
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