Category Archives: Poetry

The Vocabulary of Chains

This is how it starts: they take words you’ve known your whole life – freedom, [...]

Just There (will it ever stop hurting?)

Everyone wants to know when grief ends. When you’ll be “over it.” When you’ll stop [...]

To No One (the love you carry whether you want to or not)

You carry it like a burden, like a gift, like a curse, because even when [...]

Re-Defined (how they get you from reasonable to everything is your fault)

This is how they make you blame yourself for your own abuse. Not over years. [...]

Between Earth and Skin

I’ve done my share of ruining what I wanted to keep, drowning it with care.

The Lens

Sometimes I forget that the world I'm looking at isn't the same one you see.

Unseen (feeling alone in a crowd)

Explore this emotive poem by Julia Delaney, reflecting the paradox of feeling alone in a [...]

I Bore Myself

There is a specific humiliation of being able to predict your own breakdown. Exhausted, disgusted, [...]

Debris of Devotion (healing from spiritual manipulation)

I got caught in spiritual manipulation that messed with my mind. Here, I explore that [...]

Timeless

Beside the boundless ocean, time doesn’t tick – it drifts, loose and light.

The Only Direction

I find comfort in dirt under my nails, the smell of tomato vines in the [...]

Mute (you might never touch them again)

They clench their will into a fist, and just like that— let you go. Mornings [...]

Within to Without (writing poetry for emotional healing)

One of the most powerful ways I’ve learned to ‘sit with my feelings’ came through [...]

Kyiv Nightfall (holding my mother through a war-torn lullaby)

After the Sun Goes Down How can one put in words the feeling of looking [...]

You Were Always Whole (spiritual manipulation & false guru)

You know that feeling when someone claims they have all the answers? When they speak [...]

Pink Tulips in War

It was a warm morning in Ukraine, 2022. The war was in its third week. [...]

Beginning and End (when devotion becomes disappearance)

Some teachers offer wisdom. Others offer themselves as the answer. When someone claims to be [...]

Prayer for Ukraine (when all you can do is fall to your knees)

I feel the warm soil with my bare feet. Flooded by tears, my heart struggles [...]

No Doubt (breaking free from spiritual manipulation)

This poem is very personal and emotionally charged. It's about breaking free from a belief [...]

Tears Don’t Lie (So why do we cry?)

This poem reframes tears as this powerful, soulful language, beyond just sadness or joy. It [...]