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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 20/08/2025

🔥 Let poetry ignite the spark within you. 🕯️ All these poems were featured this week on One Poem Only.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 10/08/2025

✨ Your Poetryscopes are back! Look for your rising and moon sign for the words meant for you. 🎙️ All these poems were featured this week on One Poem Only. You can listen to the Sunday recap now. It includes a new poem not featured here.

Poetryscopes - verse for your sign
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

Aries + Libra
These songs I ruminate on are
the blood curling around my ribs
echoing stories I don’t want to hear
of a beautiful ingenue I once knew
One I feel, I am losing

In the dead of morning I sleep in silence
But I can still feel the hum of the stars
repositioning themselves in my sky
by Precious
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

Taurus + Scorpio
I know a place
where living takes flight
where we can plant willow and watch them grow
gracefully cascade to the ground
and together we can bring life to
the parts forever shaded
by Shauna Richmond
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

Gemini + Sagittarius
You are Zeus come again.
You are healed and reborn
Now with all your strength
That never left you,
You who have found
How to proclaim your immanence
from Circe by Maggie Devers
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 07/08/2025

🥂 Episode 99 is out today. Thank you all for being a part of this journey of a poem a day. I’m so grateful you’re here—listening and writing. 🖋️ Poetry will save us. I believe that with my whole heart. open.substack.com/pub/rembrand...

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Episode 99 - Speak by Maggie Devers

Speak Maggie Devers She speaks in poetry Like she doesn’t know another way. Seriously, there is a soundtrack to her life. It’s not even main character energy, It’s ‘I embody me’ energy. How brave to l...

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 07/08/2025

🪟 Tell me, what do you see this week?

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 07/08/2025

🍎 This month One Poem Only is packed full of poems that you need to hear. There are important poems and beautiful poems, and occasionally, funny poems. 📝 Thank you to everyone who submitted to have me read their poem in the Fall. I’m reviewing all your poems and will respond to everyone by Aug 14.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 28/07/2025

💐 Like poetry, flowers hold meaning. Which bloom resonates with you? 🎧 All these poems were featured this week on One Poem Only. You can listen to the Sunday recap now. It includes a new poem not featured here.

Amaryllis
Pride, Pastoral Poetry
Awake! awake! for the earliest gleam
Of golden sunlight shines
On the rippling waves, that brightly flow
Beneath the flowering vines.
Louisa May Alcott

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry and flower, flower meanings, flower symbolism, one poem only, poetry podcast, language of flowers

Plumeria
Birth, Hope, & New Beginnings
Expose
My
[Breathe in; the cold air fills my lungs] [] [up to its ballooned capacity, now warm]
Humanity,
Revealing
[Thrums and thralls of an otherworldly] [] [power, disembodied voices call to me] Worms
And
[Who puzzle-pieced me together before,] [] [assembling lamb for slaughter, for god?] Rot
And
[No longer made of metal, jellied eyes] [] [leap from my skull. I can grow again.] Blood.
By Emily Holman

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry and flower, flower meanings, flower symbolism, one poem only, poetry podcast, language of flowers

Iris
Faith, Hope, Wisdom and Valor
My meaning got lost and
my muse went mute
but there's a part of me that still
knows what to do
Power through and write what's true
Travis Hupp

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry and flower, flower meanings, flower symbolism, one poem only, poetry podcast, language of flowers

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 24/07/2025

🌬️ I'm reading the poem we all must hear today - The Whole Story - by Anna Goodman Herrick. 🍎 Check out One Poem Only where I read Anna's poem, Reckoning. Her words find us exactly where we're meant to be. open.substack.com/pub/rembrand...

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 21/07/2025

🗃️ I’m bestowing you with your very own One Poem Only library card, and I hope you discover something beautiful in the stacks this week. 📖 Which lines are your favorite?

The One Poem Only poetry library What will you checkout this week?
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry library, one poem only, poetry podcast

When in the night I await her coming,
My life seems stopped.
By Anna Akhmatova
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry library, one poem only, poetry podcast

Every day, I am a thousand hands
reaching outward–
never inward.
By EdenS
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry library, one poem only, poetry podcast

my words i speak them
and sing all of me
i breathe them
with suffocating lungs
i stand in the middle of nowhere
and write them
By Zaïnab El Meziani
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry library, one poem only, poetry podcast

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 16/07/2025

🎙️ Today I'm reading you a beautiful poem by @katiececilia.bsky.social 🍎 Listen to another poem by Katie Cecilia over on One Poem Only. 🫶🏻 Both are these are sure to inspire you to feel something true. rembrandtscure.substack.com/p/im-going-t...

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 15/07/2025

🖋️ Your poetryscopes are here. Look for your rising and moon sign to reveal the verses meant for you. 💫 If you’re wondering why there are two signs listed for each verse, firstly it’s because we only have six poems a week

Aries + Libra
Feminine variation
The mound bending Delos Isle
Where she was born with her
Brighter brother; a white pearl sown
Upon a black dress quite becoming

Holy Roman epithet
Frigid daughter of Leto
Shouldering a slim bow
She rounds upon the sacred doe
An ancient beast; forever chasing
by Cyn Grace Sylvie
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

Taurus & Scorpio
They played in the water
Then drank pineapple juice in the sun,
Knowing how to live so young
By Maggie Devers
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

Gemini + Sagittarius
Let these relics of your past reveal
A thread you never tugged on
To rekindle that quiet spark of joy
By Paper Trail Poetry
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 14/07/2025

The full moon always pulls a poem from me and this is the latest installment 🌕

A poem by Maggie Devers
Full Moon in Capricorn

I made potato soup with chicken stock, butter and cream
And felt like a wealthy peasant
To know such bounty as potato soup

I read something and took a screenshot of it
And then it hit me in the face:
This is the way I want to write, and I can

I Googled when the moon would be full
Exactly
And listened to my neighbors cackle from their balcony

Everything we want is already here
Just waiting for us to hold open the door
And nod the way inside.

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for the full moon in Capricorn

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 10/07/2025

Yes! It’s time. I’ve opened submissions to One Poem Only, the podcast where I read you a poem a day. The window closes on July 31. I can’t wait to read your poem 🍏 forms.gle/wQ22KeHx9vPa...

One Poem Only submissions are open.
Keywords: one poem only, poetry podcast, poetry submissions, poetry open call, writing opportunities, submit your poetry, poetry for women, poet community, writing, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day

If you have a poem you want me to read on the podcast, now’s the time.
Keywords: one poem only, poetry podcast, poetry submissions, poetry open call, writing opportunities, submit your poetry, poetry for women, poet community, writing, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day

I’m looking for the one that lights you up.
The one you’re proud of.
The one you can’t read without crying.
The one that makes you feel something big.
Keywords: one poem only, poetry podcast, poetry submissions, poetry open call, writing opportunities, submit your poetry, poetry for women, poet community, writing, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day

Let’s make space for the one this Fall on One Poem Only.
Keywords: one poem only, poetry podcast, poetry submissions, poetry open call, writing opportunities, submit your poetry, poetry for women, poet community, writing, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 10/07/2025

❤️‍🔥 Listen to this poem and feel revived. Life is here for us, we just have to drink it all in. 🫶🏻 Thank you, Kimmery, Moss, for writing such an expansive poem.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 08/07/2025

There’s are no rules in poetry, but sometimes a world with no rules feels terrifying. So I’ll give you one, and only one, and if it doesn’t resonate, ignore it. (There really are no rules.)

Poetry has no rules. With one exception →
Keywords: writing tips, writing inspiration, poetry, writing advice for poets, how to get published, how to be creative, how to be an artist

The one rule that transformed my poetry
The truth is your guide.
But don’t be afraid of a lie
Keywords: writing tips, writing inspiration, poetry, writing advice for poets, how to get published, how to be creative, how to be an artist

Your readers know when you’re glossing over something or only giving us half the story. Embellish if you must, but the truth is always more interesting.
Keywords: writing tips, writing inspiration, poetry, writing advice for poets, how to get published, how to be creative, how to be an artist

And the more you commit to the truth the more your readers will be able to seek you out. In a world that’s salivating for authenticity, walk the walk. Your peeps will come with you.
Keywords: writing tips, writing inspiration, poetry, writing advice for poets, how to get published, how to be creative, how to be an artist

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 07/07/2025

🦀 It’s Cancer season where we’re leaning deep into emotion. And what better for emotion than poetry? Choose a star color from the crab constellation, and then swipe to see the lines of the poem meant for you.

It is written in the stars. Pick your star number and swipe for your celestial lines. Image of Cancer constellation with stars number one through six.
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

One
all I really want
is for you to make me
something only you can make
By Katie Gilmour
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

Two
in repose
I chose
a bit of small white coral
hidden in my pocket
so as not to get caught
By Connie Helena
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

Three
Put a heart-shaped patch
over every hole I've made, give me new, paper maché organs,
ones I can’t feel in my chest.
By Lindsey
Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 04/07/2025

🎙️ It’s July, and a poem a day continues. This is month four of me reading you a poem a day, and I'm not exaggerating in the slightest to say it's what's keeping me going.

One Poem Only podcast. Your poem a day. July Schedule. Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, podcast community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

July schedule of poetry for One Poem Only podcast
7/1 Sonnet: To the Poppy by Anna Seward
7/2 No one needs to invent time travel by Christiana Doucette
7/3 She’s got a handle on it by Maggie Devers
7/4 The American by Connie Helena
7/5 Look it in the Mouth by Katie Gilmour
7/6 Sunday recap plus Found Art by Maggie Devers

Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, podcast community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

July schedule of poetry for One Poem Only podcast
7/7 worlds without blueprints by Paper Trail Poetry
7/8 Fringford Brook by Violet Jacob
7/9 Wednesday Double Feature The Eagle with Blue Feathers by Kimmery Moss
7/10 To take death by Maggie Devers
7/11 I'm small, meek, pale and weak by Holly Fries
7/12 O, Cynthia by Cyn Grace Sylvie
7/13 Sunday recap & Round and Round by Maggie Devers
Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, podcast community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

July schedule of poetry for One Poem Only podcast
7/21 Jawbone, Ribcage by Emily Holman
7/22 Morning Song of the Bees by Louisa May Alcott
7/23 Wednesday Double Feature Reckoning by Anna Goodman Herrick
7/24 Full and Free by Maggie Devers
7/25 It's Not Too Late by Travis Hupp
7/26 No Apologies by Michelle Vivier
7/27 Sunday Recap and Circe by Maggie Devers
Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, podcast community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 03/07/2025

🥹 I nearly made it to the end without crying. This one opened me up. 🫂 Thank you @doucette515.bsky.social for your stunning words. They heal all of us. 🍎 Check out One Poem Only where I read her poem, No one needs to invent time travel, and soak in more healing words.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 03/07/2025

A moment of peace and acceptance for anyone who’s ever been labeled bossy.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 30/06/2025

✨ Poetry by the signs. Look for your rising and moon sign for the poem meant for you 📝 All these poems were featured this week on One Poem Only. You can listen to the Sunday recap now plus one new poem. 🍎 New episodes of OPO drop daily. rembrandtscure.substack.com/p/sunday-rec...

Aries and Libra
I wonder if the myths are always in us
And we ache to relive them through art
by Maggie Devers

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

Taurus and Scorpio
dance til death with me
let us light up this world one last time
before my hunger will have been forever
satisfied;
before the only remains of your existence
are smoke and ashes
by - Velvet Poetess

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

Gemini and Sagittarius
I want to know you, long summer day
gelato-fingered savior, who I long for.
I want to know you, and I want to know
in my sunshine bones that the craving
is just as blissful as the full belly.
by - Ariel K. Moniz

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry horoscope, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, poetry for your rising sign and moon sign, one poem only, poetry podcast

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 28/06/2025

Can we all agree that poetry is a useful way to process growth and change? I'm honestly sh*t at all the other ways. If you want to hear me read this, check out One Poem Only 🍎 open.substack.com/pub/rembrand...

Inheritance, a poem by Maggie Devers

She tells me she likes the new side
Where they eat pomegranates all day
And her life
Sounds like an ancient poem
Chanted down the ages
To her at six.

I wonder if the myths are always in us
And we ache to relive them through art

She says meditate instead of pray
And Stracciatella instead of chocolate chip
And I think that’s a generational vernacular shift in the right direction

She holds the scrunchie open and pulls her hair though
At the final pass she stops halfway, a poor man’s bun
And I wonder what’s inherited and what’s instinct.

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day, growth poem, childhood poem, daughter poem, mother poem

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 26/06/2025

🍿 It's Wednesday, and we have a double feature 🎙️ Today I have the privilege of reading Michaela Godding's, Poem For a Mother Six Years Out of Prison. 🍎 And another, playing god, over on One Poem Only rembrandtscure.substack.com/p/playing-go...

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 25/06/2025

Your gentle reminder to focus on what you love and breathe it in ❤️

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 24/06/2025

🎴 Your poetry tarot cards are here. Uncover the words meant for you. 🖋️ All these poems were featured this week on One Poem Only. You can listen to the Sunday recap now. It includes a new poem not featured here. 🍎 New episodes of OPO drop daily. open.substack.com/pub/rembrand...

The Moon
Words flow through our most complex parts and hand us empathy, stanzas give rhythm to the day, lines whispered in the night bind our wounds, we heal letter by letter by Maggie Devers

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry tarot, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day

Queen of Cups
And gradually I mended
Put together with strands of tenderness cemented with passing time by Barbara Ehrentreu

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry tarot, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day

The Sun
At night, my daughter asks if i saw the rain
She mimics the pattering noise with her
Fingers over the mound of the duvet
by Danielle Cahill

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry tarot, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day

The Hermit
Would that I could
measure the volume
of a glass half-full
by Britt Kaufmann

Keywords: poetry for women, poet community, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives, poetry tarot, poetry inspiration, poetry quote, a poem a day

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 19/06/2025

💫 Some days only two poems will do. 🎬 Today on the live I read a poem by Danielle Marie Cahill about the modern conundrum of trying to live a principled life. Here's the replay. 🎙️ AND I read another poem by Danielle over on the podcast, One Poem Only. 🍭 Enjoy, poetry lovers. You deserve it.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 19/06/2025

You’re not alone if you believe the world needs more art.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 19/06/2025

June memes keeping it real 🕶️ This is your stop for everything poetry: 🍎 I have a podcast, One Poem Only, where a I read you a poem a day. 🎞️ Wednesdays are double features, when I read a poem by the same poet featured on OPO. 📝 Poetry submissions will be open sometime this summer

A poetry meme. Text reads- Choose your fighter: poet, madwoman. Image is of two Hollywood starlets that look exactly the same

A poetry meme. Two classic Hollywood dancers posing with jazz hands The text: my inner angst masquerading as (between the jazz hands) poetry.

A poetry meme. Two 1920s women in swimming suits, one standing behind the other, resting her arms around the other woman’s shoulder. Text on woman in the back: me. Text on woman in the front: the em dash.

A poetry meme. Elegantly dressed woman sitting with her knees close to her chest, biting her fingernail looking slightly worried or pensive. Text reads: thinking about editing my poem for the literal thousandth time.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 19/06/2025

Propaganda I am falling for: an apple a day keeps the doctor away 🍎

Propaganda I’m not falling for, a poem by Maggie Devers
Laws make us safe
War is necessary
Our worth is determined by our usefulness
Children must be taught
Right and wrong

Productivity creates happiness
Sugar is bad
Babies are dumb
Intelligence can be measured
Empathy makes you weak

No pain no gain
The world is a cruel place
I don’t deserve to be happy
There’s more suffering than good
And art won’t save us.

Keywords: poetry for women, poet, community, instapoet, instapoem, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creatives

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 19/06/2025

Here’s a gorgeous poem for Pride by Margaux Paul. Your joy is a revolution 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 10/06/2025

Now more than ever, you must take the beauty this life offers.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 10/06/2025

📝 What bit of poetry will you take with you into the week? 👆Just tap and hold then screenshot to see the words meant for you. 🪭 And make sure to listen to Sunday’s episode of One Poem Only featuring the full version of all these poems.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 07/06/2025

✍️ Lovers, I want you to know–if you’re here for the process, for the poetry, you’re in the right place. 🌬️ If you want to hear me read this poem, check out my podcast, One Poem Only: open.substack.com/pub/rembrand...

A poem by Maggie Devers
Because that is all it is.
I want to know your process
So I can make it with you
The way you sketch until your nails are packed with graphite
And your warm hands smell of wood shavings and masking tape
I could hold them to my nose and die happy

I want to know how you change
So I can be there with you
As you chop off your hair
Let your eyebrows grow wilder and abandon heels for Birks.
Even your feet are now free

Tell me what makes your heart grow
And mine will grow too
How you smell the top of a baby’s head watching the sun dip over the ocean.
There’s a margarita with salt in your hand
And the lime stings at your cuticle, but it’s a good hurt.

Show me the hidden parts of you
So I can see all of you
The way you shield yourself from criticism
Even your own. How you fight for everyone
But yourself. How you believe these parts are more hidden than they are.

Know I am here for the process.

Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, community, instapoet, instapoem, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 05/06/2025

🎙️ It's Wednesday, time for a poetry break. Listen to this poem, Candle of Hope, by Debbie Radfod. This is from her book, The Enchanted Cottage, a cozy journey of poetry though a cottage where you'll want to linger. amzn.to/3ZPYIfE

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 04/06/2025

🖋️ Your poetry is allowed to be exactly what you want it to be. 🌬️ Edit for yourself, and your readers. They want your unique, original voice. 🕯️ There’s no reason to limit yourself, if you like it, someone else will too. 💬 What’s a part of your poetry that someone has criticized but you adore?

Don’t edit your poetry to fit some editor’s wishlist.
Here’s why →

Keywords: writing tips, writing inspiration, poetry, writing advice for poets, how to get published, how to be creative, how to be an artist

Is there anything more stylistic, more personal, more creative than poetry?
No.
So do it your way.

Keywords: writing tips, writing inspiration, poetry, writing advice for poets, how to get published, how to be creative, how to be an artist

There are no rules
1 Use “and” or “but”
or repeat words
or get friendly with noun-ing (gerunds).

2 You don’t need a title. (Ask Emily Dickinson.)

3 You don’t need stanzas or line breaks.

4 Tell me why it’s cliché to use clichés.

Keywords: writing tips, writing inspiration, poetry, writing advice for poets, how to get published, how to be creative, how to be an artist

Art is the leading edge. Of all of it. It’s creation at its most pure. So never let anyone tell you how to do it. You’ll kill it, stone dead.

I know folks will insist we need ground rules, somewhere we can meet and understand. And I’m here to tell you—that’s the art—the thing you make where people can meet you and understand.

Keywords: writing tips, writing inspiration, poetry, writing advice for poets, how to get published, how to be creative, how to be an artist

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 02/06/2025

I'm extending one poem a day through the summer. One Poem Only is the podcast. Get it where you get your podcasts, or drop an apple 🍎 below and I'll DM you the link to listen. Give yourself a short break to nourish your psyche. You don't need me to tell you how necessary it is in these times.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 02/06/2025

✨ If you learn one thing from me, it's this: everything you want is here for you.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 31/05/2025

Raise your hand if you know it's impossible to resist our sacred energy 🌬️ Listen to me read this on my podcast, One Poem Only, where I read a poem every day open.substack.com/pub/rembrand...

A poem by Maggie Devers
Did you know?
The divine feminine loves to find trouble and commune
To cannonball into the pool just to make waves
And feel the splash back

Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, community, instapoet, instapoem, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 29/05/2025

🎙️ Take a poetry break. Listen to two poems by Anisha SenGupta Yanger 📹 Read the instructions carefully, so many said. 🍎 One Poem Only: The garden path and all that jazz Both carry the beautiful sound of inspired word choice. Come let them wash over you. open.substack.com/pub/rembrand...

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 28/05/2025

If you're someone who believes that everything is working out for you, you're in the right place.

A poem by Maggie Devers
Still
When I tell you you’re going to be fine
I don’t think you realize
just how fine
You’re going to be

To go on living
To go on breathing,
feeling
and thinking

In each way that matters,
You get to be

And I want you to understand the miracle of that.

Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, community, instapoet, instapoem, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 28/05/2025

📝 This is your permission slip to inhale the day and write the poem. 🎙️ I read poetry every day on my podcast, One Poem Only, and I'm live on Instagram every Wednesday at noon. #poetlife #poetrywillsaveus #poetryvideos

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 22/05/2025

This poem was written by a younger me that I've buried for quite a while. I won't call her my shadow side because she'll get mad, and really, that's not fair. It’s time I listened to her voice again.

A poem by Maggie Devers
During this year's lunar eclipse
I misplaced my shot glass
And over-poured my negronis
Or what's it called with port instead of vermouth?
It doesn't really matter.

We floated on together
I booked tickets for Disneyland
And wrote stories that confused me
The next morning
It doesn't really matter.

Except I woke up thirsty
Me, perpetually thirsty
Soaking up the water
And drowning myself in gin
Wherever you go, there you are
So they say.

So here I am
Pulled by the moon
Like the ocean's tides
Feeling out of control
In these rhythms of my life.

Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, community, instapoet, instapoem, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 20/05/2025

I’m looking for poets to feature on my podcast, One Poem Only, where I read a poem a day. Reply with a poem you want me to read. Bonus points if you wrote it.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 20/05/2025

🌻 If you've ever struggled to find the beauty in the day, this one's for you. #originalpoetry #poetryheals

A poem by Maggie Devers
Afternoon in March, a Study
She’s been making miniatures of our furniture
With the intensity of a set decorator and a production date.
Accuracy is essential but there is room for artistic license.
Whimsy, whimsy is paramount.

Like Fabergé–
Where eyes are jewels
And cockerels spring from eggs to announce the hour

The sun’s coming in at a completely different angle
And I can’t comprehend how a time change makes this possible

Continued on the next image

Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, community, instapoet, instapoem, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

Poem continued from the previous image.

I film her to capture the moment
Her, standing near the window
Drawing in the unkempt living room,
Like an artist’s studio,
And she asks if I’m taking a video
And tells me she needs help writing a note

She’s put her bowl in the sink, the red sauce comingling with the soapy water from my eggs
And we write a letter to the fairies
And life is simple

And I remember a bar of soap in a fancy box
That smells like heaven
And reminds me of my grandmother

Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, community, instapoet, instapoem, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 20/05/2025

♦️ Pick a card, any card for the week ♣️ It’s Sunday so over at One Poem Only, my podcast where I read you a poem a day, we’re doing a recap of the week. ♥️ Plus one new one for good measure. ♠️ What was your favorite this week? I can’t stop thinking about Marilyn 💋

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 18/05/2025

I traded the doom scroll for poetry and discovered what it feels like to truly be alive.

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 18/05/2025

📓 Can we all agree that poetry is the most underrated form of performance art? 🎙️ I read poetry every day on my podcast, One Poem Only, and I'm live on IG every Wednesday at noon. #expressyourself #shortpoems #spokenwordpoet

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 17/05/2025

Can we all agree that poetry inspiration strikes everywhere? 🐔 If you want to hear me read this poem, check out my podcast, One Poem Only, where I read a poem every day. I will be reading you this for episode 15, releasing May 15 at noon PT. open.substack.com/pub/rembrand...

Brood, a poem by Maggie Devers.
The three hens at my daughter’s school
Are oblivious to egg prices
Concerned with lunch scraps
And the stray termite
And their stair perch when the sun dips low

I wonder how they spend evenings and weekends
If they miss the sound of childsong
Or the Sunday scaries set in

I imagine they commune with their comrades
Offer jokes and such for trade
My daughter assures me chickens dislike the mud
And I'm inclined to believe her

Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, community, instapoet, instapoem, writing, women, empowerment, writer, creative

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Maggie Devers @rembrandtscure.substack.com · 14/05/2025

🕯️ When everyone is telling you poetry is dead, I want you to know it’s very much alive. #spokenword

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