Sunday Recap & She was in her prime by Maggie Devers

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

May 19 - Fides, Spes by Willa Cather

May 20 - Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

May 21 - Storm Chaser by Melanie Hess

May 22 - During this year's lunar eclipse by Maggie Devers

May 23 - The Visionary by Emily Brontë

May 24 - Spring Storm by William Carlos Williams

May 25 -

She was in her prime

And she knew it.

It wasn’t just the swagger,

It was her ain’t give a damn

About any of it.

She could wake up

And be

Whatever she wanted

To be.

She could transform herself in the moment

Burn and rise from the ashes

Unsheathe her sword to vanquish foes

Cuddle the cat as the rain rambles down

Anything she wants

To be

Is hers

She knows

The prison of identity is only in the mind

And she’s limbered hers up over the years

Studying chameleons and flying squirrels

To learn the ways of flashing in the light.

- Maggie Devers

More from Maggie Devers ↓

• Read my debut poetry book, For My Daughter
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