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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Two Heartbeats
Two heartbeats begin beneath one mother’s own, arriving through an unexpected birth and filling the quiet with twice the love.
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Wildfire
Someone slips quietly into every thought until affection becomes wildfire and even tomorrow begins wearing their face.
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You Ruined Poetry
Love ruins poetry in the best way when one person begins haunting every metaphor, every page, and every unwritten name.
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If You Knew
A tender confession about carrying someone like a protected secret and wondering what they would do if they knew.
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Between Bruises and Blooms
Healing is not forgetting the past—it is learning to love the version of yourself who survived it and kept choosing tomorrow.
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My Rainbow Boy
A rainbow baby arrives after unimaginable loss, not replacing grief but proving that hope can still grow in broken ground.
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Home Is You
After surviving storms no one saw, she discovers that home can be a person who arrives quietly and stays gently.
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The Summer I Missed
A mother hopes her children are collecting summer joy even as she aches over all the moments she is missing.
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Two Hearts, One Beginning
Two sisters begin side by side, sharing a beginning while growing into two beautifully different little souls.
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They Call It a Battle
Custody is called a battle, but for a mother living inside the waiting, there is no clean finish line—only love that keeps 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 