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: A Short Love Poem in Three Lines
A short love poem in three lines — for the person who quietly rewrote everything you thought you knew about love.
To My Dear Friend: A Poem About Losing Someone You Love
A poem about losing a dear friend — a letter in verse that honors their spirit, keeps their lessons close, and holds the love that doesn't leave.
They Don't Even Know: A Poem on Empathy and Care
A reflective poem on empathy and secondhand pain — the weight you absorb when you love someone, and the private cost they never see you carry.
Bond Impossible to Break: A Soulmate Love Poem
A soulmate love poem on the bond that needs no argument — the kind of love that feels like a deep breath, fate, and physics all at once.
Where Time Stands Still: A Poem on Longing and Love
A reflective poem on longing and love — the ache for a texture life once had, and a quiet ask to be swept somewhere that still believes in beginning.
Many Soulmates: A Short Poem on Love and Connection
A short poem that reframes the word soulmate — not as singular and finite, but as something we're allowed to find again, and again.
I'll See You Later: A Haiku on Drifting Friendships
A haiku on the friendships that drift without a proper goodbye — the open door, the honest pause, and the quiet grace of 'I'll see you later.'
Love in Spring: A Short Love Poem in Four Lines
A short love poem in four lines — for the kind of love that rewrites your calendar and changes the way you see every season after.
She Moved Me: A Poem on Love and Loss
A love and loss poem for the people who leave the room but never quite leave you — and the quiet ways they keep shaping who you become.
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.