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Words That Hold Their Breath

Verses written at the edge of language — where feeling outpaces form.

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202412 poems

Herbal

Herbal is a poetic journey into the living spirit of the natural world. Through personification, plants, earth, and the elements take on human emotions, voices, and desires. Each poem explores the intimate connection between humanity and nature—revealing the earth as a source of wisdom, healing, memory, and belonging.

202318 poems

She

She traces the poet's journey from adolescence into womanhood through memories of growth, hardship, and emotional awakening. These poems explore the trials that shape identity, the wounds carried in silence, and the courage required to confront one's darkest moments. At its heart, She is a collection about survival, self-discovery, and becoming whole.

202216 poems

Other Worldly

Other Worldly is a collection of epic, fantasy-inspired poetry that ventures beyond the boundaries of the familiar. Filled with imagined realms, ancient powers, shadowed creatures, and heroic journeys, these poems explore the timeless struggle between darkness and light. Each piece invites the reader into a world where myth, magic, and human destiny intertwine.

202122 poems

Mood

Mood explores the emotional landscape of womanhood in all its complexity. Moving through desire, intimacy, loneliness, depression, sadness, and joy, these poems give voice to feelings that are often hidden or left unspoken. The collection reflects the human need to be understood, loved, and connected—even during moments of profound darkness.

Herbal

Moonlit Garden

We think of gardens as beautiful,vibrant,a living myriad of daylightTransformed into a mysterious euphony of soundand growth by moonlight

Herbal

Root Language

The root does not ask permissionto split the stone.It simply grows toward water,patient as grief,certain as morning.

Herbal

Lavender Elegy

She pressed lavender between pagesthe way memory presses itselfinto the body — quietly,until you open the bookand the scent undoes you.

Herbal

What the Soil Keeps

Everything returns to the earth eventually —the name, the voice, the argumentleft unfinished at the table.The soil does not judge.It only keeps.

She

Marginalia

She wrote her grief in margins,small and careful as a prayer,until the margins were the book.

She

Inheritance

My mother's hands in mine —the same knuckles, the same reach,the same hunger for somethingthat has no name yet.

She

Becoming

I did not arrive at myself all at once.I came in pieces —a word here, a wound there,a morning I chose to stay.

She

Girlhood

We were taught to make ourselves smallin rooms that were already too small.We folded ourselves into cornersand called it grace.

Other Worldly

River Memory

The river does not rememberthe stones it has carried.Only the shape it has worn into them.

Other Worldly

Threshold

I have stood at this doorso many timesI have worn a groove in the floorwith my hesitation.

Other Worldly

The Cartographer of Shadows

She mapped the dark placesno compass could name —the valley between sleeping and waking,the country where the dead still walkand call you by your oldest name.

Other Worldly

Covenant of Stars

Before the first word was spoken,the stars made their agreement —to burn until they could not,and in the burning, becomethe light someone else navigates by.

Mood

The Hollow Hours

At 3am the house breathes differently —slower, deeper, as if it toois learning to hold what cannot be held.

Mood

Longing

There is a particular achethat has no object —not for a person, not for a place,but for a version of yourselfyou have not yet become.

Mood

Joy, Briefly

It came without announcement —a Tuesday, the window open,the smell of rain on warm pavement,and something in the chestthat remembered how to open.

Mood

Blue Season

Depression is not dramatic.It is the dishes left three days,the unanswered message,the window you meant to openand never did.
We think of gardens as beautiful,vibrant,a living myriad of daylightTransformed into a mysterious euphony of soundand growth by moonlight
— Kakesha Thompson

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