Between Bruises & Blooms
A poetry archive for the things that bruise us, the things that bloom anyway, and everything we become in between.
Welcome to the library. Here you’ll find poetry and reflections rooted in motherhood, grief, love, survival, healing, darkness, nature, and the ordinary moments that refuse to stay ordinary.
Latest Writing
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I Refuse
A refusal to inherit someone else’s rage, shrink into their story, or teach her children that love should ever sound like fear.
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The Cycle
A repeating cycle of hurt, apology, hope, and return finally breaks when she stops waiting for the next apology to save it.
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Psychological Warfare
Some wars leave no bruises—only sleepless nights, self-doubt, and a battlefield built inside the mind.
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The Things I Never Sent
Peace begins to look like all the replies she could have sent but chose to leave unsaid.
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Courtroom Mother
Courtrooms count paperwork and allegations; motherhood keeps counting lullabies, scraped knees, and all the care no file can hold.
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The Truth You Promised
Truth was once used like a threat; now she lets it stand on its own without giving fear the final word.
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Sorry Was Never the End
Sorry kept arriving like a bandage over the same wound until she learned an apology is not an ending when the storm always returns.
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The Woman Who Wouldn’t Break
A woman sits beneath a flood of cruelty and realizes the person someone is trying to break has already survived far worse storms.
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To Renee
Thirteen years of friendship become proof that family can be chosen in hospital rooms, late-night calls, laughter, and showing up.
Stay in the Garden
New poems, new rooms, and whatever blooms next—delivered without making you hunt through the archive for it.
Between Bruises & Blooms 