One Poem More gathers all of this week’s poems from One Poem Only—an unhurried chance to listen again, or catch what you missed.

This week’s poems

1. Plutocracy by Alicia Swain
2. Tony and/or Tonee by Nguyen Minh Tri
3. Snail by Lizzie Elliot-Klein
4. intuition by rism
5. Reduced by Rosalind Davies
6. Epitaph On A Tyrant by W. H. Auden

Plus one new one to carry us into the week ahead

In Warmth

Maggie Devers

How many pots of tea have we forgotten to drink?

Have we left sitting calmly on the counter

Going from hot to warm

Warm to cool

Noiselessly with no protest

As if our neglect was nothing to the brew,

Our forgetfulness marked by indifference

But more is wasted than the tea–

The chance to pause, to commune

To let the warm sweetness envelop us slowly

Like ivy covering a building

Sometimes taking years to grow.

But slowly, slowly spreading to touch every cell

To remind us to protect our warmth

So we remember to shout

When we are left alone to grow cold.

More from Maggie Devers ↓

1. My debut poetry collection, For My Daughter, available as an audiobook.
2. Purchase a signed copy of For My Daughter or get one free by subscribing to the podcast: One Poem Only on Patreon
3. Follow me on Instagram for more poetry @rembrandts.cure

More from this week’s poets

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