Choose a poem
Sadness · Heartbreak · Loss
Thorns of Grief
Poems about sadness, heartbreak, loss, and difficult moments.
Petrichor Verse
The Bouquet
of Life.
A 21-poem collection in three parts: Life, Love, and Legacy.
01 / PETRICHOR VERSE
Thorns, stems,
and sunlit moments.
The poetry lives in three gardens: sadness and loss, memories and earlier selves, happiness and the small beautiful moments.
Memories · Childhood · Old Places
Stems of Nostalgia
Poems about memories, childhood, old places, people, and earlier versions of oneself.
Happiness · Joy · Gratitude
Sunlit Vignettes
Poems about happiness, joy, small beautiful moments, and gratitude.
A PAINTED INTERLUDE
A landscape
between poems.
Original artwork by a friend of Petrichor Verse, woven through the collection with permission.
02 / POETRY GARDEN
Human Life
Through a Flower.
Seven poems follow a flower from the unseen beginning of life to its return to the soil.
01
Should I stay sheltered
or am I meant for a larger sky?
Beginnings
The Seed
As each line wakes, gather the ones you want to keep.
0107
PART II / THE LOVES WE CARRY
What my heart
carries.
To Andrea. To my mother and father. To my friends, my home, my younger self, and all that has made me.
08 / 14
To Andrea:
The Love We Chose
01 / 07
PART III / COSMIC CONVERSATIONS
Cosmic Conversations
Conversations with the sun, moon, rain, time, ocean, silence, and the earth.
Choose a conversation
15 / 21
Hello Helios
01 / 07
03 / A LINE TO KEEP
“To be and do nothing in the embrace of comfort—it was the most joyous of times.”
— The Seed
04 / THE BOUQUET OF LIFE
Life → Love
→ Legacy.
The Bouquet of Life begins with a flower’s complete life cycle. It continues into The Loves We Carry and ends with The People I Have Been—twenty-one poems moving from life, to love, to legacy.
What Remains in Bloom