Love & Loss
What we hold, what we give up, what stays after.
31 pieces
Frozen in Time
On old photographs, forgotten lives, and the strange tenderness of remembering people you've outgrown.
I Knew It Was You
A haiku on recognition — the moment you meet someone and feel certain you've already known them somewhere before.
Until I Met You
Three lines. The whole shape of meeting someone who rewrites what you thought you knew.
To My Dear Friend
A letter in verse to someone who isn't here anymore — and a promise about what gets carried forward.
They Don't Even Know
On the secondhand weight of someone else's pain — and how care quietly carries it.
Bond Impossible to Break
On the soulmate as fresh air — and the kind of love that arrives feeling like physics.
Where Time Stands Still
A small ask of the world — to sweep us off our feet again, to a place where love can begin.
Many Soulmates
A four-line reframe on the word *soulmate* — and the quiet permission inside it.
I'll See You Later
Three lines for the friendships that never quite closed and never quite stayed.
Love in Spring
Four lines for the kind of love that arrives like a season.
She Moved Me
On the people we'll never see again — and the way they keep teaching us how to be.
Oh Oliver: A Poem for the Family Dog
A poem for the family dog — for Oliver, who keeps walking into the room and quietly rearranging the whole day around himself.
Meu Amor: A Love Poem About Home and Each Other
A love poem set over coffee — a map on the wall, the whole world to explore, and the quiet decision that the who matters more than the where.
Two Souls: A Love Poem on Staying Near Each Other
A love poem on the depth that surprises you — and the quiet, repeated promise to show up for the person who carries your pain as their own.
In Your Corner: A Love Poem for the People I Keep
A love poem written as a letter in verse — for the people I carry with me, even the ones I haven't talked to in a while.
Eu Ainda Choro: A Bilingual Haiku on Love and Grief
A bilingual haiku in Portuguese and English — three lines on the heart that holds love and grief in the same hand, and why that capacity matters.
Olhando no Mar: A Bilingual Love Haiku
A bilingual love haiku written first in Portuguese, then in English — on seeing a dream in the sea, and the quiet act of translating feeling.
Connect with My Dad: A Poem About Music and Family
A poem about reconnecting with a father through music — finding the keys, finding the song, and finding your way back before it's too late.
A Spiral: A Poem on Love and Emotional Cycles
A poem on the love that doubles as a wound — the emotional cycle that pulls you back in, repeating, until it becomes the spiral itself.
Where We Need to Go: A Poem on Growing Apart
A poem on growing apart from someone you love — when the want is mutual but the pace isn't, and neither answer feels right.
Know the Difference: A Poem on Love vs. Obsession
A reflective poem on love vs. obsession — the hard-earned skill of telling real love from the things that wear its name, and what it costs to learn.
Loving So Deeply: A Haiku on Recognizing Love
A haiku on the rarest kind of love — the kind that feels like recognition, not introduction. Three lines for a feeling that defies explanation.
I Like Your Weird: A Love Poem for the Specific
A love poem about the specific, personal kind of love — written for one person, but true for anyone who's ever genuinely been seen and cherished.
Why Now, Why Me: A Poem on Fear of Being Loved
A poem for anyone who's been hurt enough to distrust real love — naming the defense we build, and the strange fear that arrives when someone finally means it.
A Love Sublime: A Short Love Poem in Four Lines
A short love poem in four lines — the smallest possible draft of a wedding vow, distilling everything that matters into dancing and laughter.
Past This Life: A Haiku on Eternal Love
A haiku on love that outlasts time itself — three lines for the kind of devotion that stretches past this life and into whatever comes next.
Love Supreme: A Poem on Fear and Self-Worth
A poem on the long shadow of being told you weren't enough — and the quiet, stubborn part that still dares to believe in love.
Cosmic Connection: A Love Poem on Intuition
A love poem on the intuition that defies explanation — and the quiet wisdom of trusting what you feel over what you can prove.
Without You by My Side: A Love and Loss Poem
Four short stanzas on the love that turns the impossible possible — and the ache of absence that quietly turns everything to nothing.
I Think That's What Love Is — A Short Love Poem
A short love poem on the quiet shift that happens when someone else's joy and pain become yours too — plain, exact, and true.
Speak Freely: A Poem on Words Left Unsaid
A poem on the words left unsaid — for the people we lost before we finished, and the ones we still have time to say it to.