Grief & Loss
Poetry for the losses that change a life—child loss, pregnancy loss, remembrance, anniversaries, and the love that keeps existing after goodbye.
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The moon could not return what was lost, but beneath it she learned to stop asking the sky to rebuild a life only she could keep living.
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Even the wind can carry back what memory tried to bury, touching old names, old places, and the ache of what once mattered.
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Grief is not only the moment someone leaves; it is every birthday, song, and ordinary Tuesday that keeps carrying the love forward.
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July fifteenth asks one heart to celebrate a son’s birthday while quietly remembering the pregnancy and grief stitched into the same date.
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Grief is complex and personal, intertwining joy and pain; survival alone signifies resilience amidst profound loss and enduring memories.
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A mother writes to the daughter she held for only hours, imagining the girl she might have become and loving her through every unanswered question.
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A daughter held for only moments remains woven through every year, every sibling, and every piece of love that followed.
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A sleepless mother searches photographs and memory for pieces of the daughter she had too little time to know.
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A mother finally learns the medical name behind her daughter’s loss—and begins laying down guilt that was never hers to carry.
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The birth story of a daughter whose brief life split one October morning into love, loss, and everything after.
Between Bruises & Blooms 