Grief on the page isn’t about “being sad.” It’s:
• The buttoned collar that suddenly feels too tight
• The coffee cup left on the counter for someone who isn’t coming
• The joke you almost text, then delete
That’s where the heartbreak lives.
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SOFT WEATHER, MOTHER
—on inheritance mistaken for ending
The world welcomes the new year with noise
I enter it carrying two absences
Some beginnings are quiet
Some love outlives calendars
Some grief learns how to breathe
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Held
At first, it was unbearable,
the hush after goodbye,
a silence so sharp
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After
The first thing I said when the door closed
was not a prayer, not a confession,
just a small breath,
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When the Past
I used to think memory was a door
you could close
if you leaned hard enough.
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The Shape
I keep it in a box
small enough to hide,
heavy enough to tilt the shelf.
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A Slow
Grief begins as a tight knot just under my ribs.
I keep touching the spot
like checking a pocket
where something valuable used to live.
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Learning to Breathe
I didn’t know how to stand
after the world tilted—
how to hold a cup
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UNADDRESSED
—a letter the wind learned by heart
Some silences don’t need stamps.
I never knew I could write like this…
Maybe it was always grief—quietly scripting itself,
while they watched everything
except the words I hadn't yet become.
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THE GLOW THAT DIDN’T STAY
—and still, everything learned to see
She didn’t stay—
but the world never returned to darkness.
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A short elegy poem to honour a grandmother’s unwavering love and gentle spirit.
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It wasn’t a breakup. It was a memory that never got to live.
Love in silence. Grief in full color.
She was never mine to keep — but she was sacred still.
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Quiet stories. Deep echoes. Always free to read.
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Experience the poignant poetry of Francoise LeBlanc as she explores loss and resilience in "Tapping White Cane, Hearing Heart's Truth. Her lyrical journey into the unseen world will touch your soul.
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‘Mother’ by m.s. RedCherries, @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
addresses the very real long term effects of the boarding/residential school system
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