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When we feel overwhelmed or burdened, reaching for a poetry collection could provide just what we need.
Sensitivity is a superpower, and poetry is one tool we can use to help ourselves stay strong when it all feels like too much.
The books below differ in voice and journey, but they offer hope to those who find the current world too much at times.
You can read these in a day, or one page at a time as a small daily ritual. Hope is sure to follow, however you choose to read them.
Time Will Tell
The guide in this book begins by sending the lost soul into the chrysalis for a period of hibernation.
From there, Courtney Peppernell shares the ache of loss that leads to eventual dissolution.
Through different phases, Peppernell shares that we are not our sorrow or our pain. We all learn, grow, and eventually, are reborn.
Where Hope Comes From
Where were you when the world locked down in 2020? Nikita Gill was putting pen to paper.
The words she released into the world became threads that helped hold people together. Through her work, hope is the evident throughline.
The poetry returns the reader to a time of uncertainty, only to remind them of all that has been overcome and celebrated since.
Evergreen
Kirsten Robinson, the creative voice behind @NakedWriting, shares a book to hold us during times of change and discomfort.
The poems here are also grounding spells to remain in a spirit of open-hearted gratitude for the goodness of life. Following the cycles of nature, Robinson’s work reminds us that we are nature ourselves.
Just like nature, we may always find ourselves in a different place on a spiral path. There is hope in this, just as there is hope in the return of every Spring.
Goldenrod
Maggie Smith’s charming words invite readers to see the beauty in the most tender of ordinary moments. Smith holds out the poem as an offering, a beacon that says, “we are alive.”
Covering different depths of the human experience, the words in this collection carry an ache, but an undercurrent of hope runs throughout.
Even throughout our challenges, there is hope in living a life with eyes wide open to the world.
You Are Only Just Beginning
In the colorful art style of Morgan Harper Nichols, this wondrous book of illustrated poetry traces hope through the hero’s journey.
Nichols shares regular inspiration on social media through her artwork, and this book is no different. Readers will be able to delve deeper.
Nichols’ direct words and beautiful art are a balm for whatever phase of the journey the reader may find themselves in.
The Book of Healing
A true road map for healing, this book by Najwa Zebian has something for everyone.
Poems and prose fill the pages, covering topics from forgiveness and letting go to stepping into your own power and hope.
The book makes a wonderful daily reader if you need a little dose of inspiration. It’s a must-have to carry in your bag!
Come Home to Yourself
In this book about endings and being alone, Déjà Rae provides a new perspective on what some consider the worst of times. Relationships come and go, but we always have ourselves.
Rae shares that we are our most constant companion. In being alone, we can take the opportunity to get to know ourselves and strengthen our foundation of love and self-acceptance.
This new way of looking at things is refreshing and hopeful. Anyone going through a hermit season will find wisdom here.
Bellyache
The perfect book for empaths and highly sensitive folks, Bellyache by Brianna Pastor helps readers embrace their sensitivity.
The world is a difficult place for those who pick up emotions from others, and take in all stimuli. The body craves to soften, but it can be difficult.
The writing within Bellyache moves from body to mind, and finally the soul, to help the reader tend to themselves.
Reading this book is an act of compassion and hope not only for yourself, but for those around you.
The Strength In Our Scars
Healing is a journey so many of us are on; however, it looks different for everyone. Bianca Sparacino builds a bridge with her words in The Strength in Our Scars.
This book comforts and gives space for hard feelings while also encouraging growth and healing.
Anyone looking for a daily reminder of their strength, resilience, and courage should pick this up right away!
A Rebellion of Care
David Gate inspires hope of a different kind, and perhaps hope that’s actually rooted in the ground we walk on.
Instead of waiting for perfect circumstances, Gate shares the practice of cultivating imperfect relationships and living in defiant awareness.
This poetry is woven with the complexity needed for these times and will leave readers inspired to foster connection in the real world.
Inward
Inward from Yung Pueblo invites the reader to journey within themselves.
Pueblo, who often writes of the power of self-love, does not wander from the path in this book.
In the direct language Pueblo is known for, we are taught that healing ourselves heals the world.
Through our interdependence and unconditional love, hope grows.
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