Poetry Archive

Most recent poems published:

  • Don’t Be Scared…

    Don’t Be Scared…

    An intro poem. A repeat post. A return to the beginning. Excerpt taken from, ‘Faith, In Stories That Change’. Read more

  • Love Destroyed Me

    Love Destroyed Me

    When love shows up inside of you, but the bit outside leaves you in some way, FIND THE LOVE ANYWAY… The source of it is IN YOU! Read more

  • Where Seas Recede

    Where Seas Recede

    We all blur lines, solidifying them is safe and healthy… and they lead to societal and cultural norms, things that help children shape their identity and sense of place in the world. Read more

  • The Return

    The Return

    Time will not heal all… let it change all instead… Read more

  • My Riches, Found in Death

    My Riches, Found in Death

    The mind noise stills, The heart beats stop, The life that was, will never again be.  Read more

  • Powerless

    Powerless

    Never give your power to another, they might just claim it as their own. Read more

  • How?

    How?

    Grief can live out in a daydream, let your mind wander and heal itself… it knows where to go, just be brave enough to let it. Read more

  • Why?

    Why?

    Why does it hurt now? Why hurt so much? Why? Why? WHY? Read more

  • Finding the Still

    Finding the Still

    Let heartache teach you one simple thing… NEVER AGAIN! Read more

  • If I Died

    If I Died

    If I died, No one would recognise my absence from the world. Nobody sees my wholeness, Nobody sees me floating through time. Read more

  • Nature’s Churning

    Nature’s Churning

    Nature’s churning cycles, Recover all that was taken by time. Light heals broken bones, Sunshine mends stolen smiles. Read more

  • Lapping At My Shores

    Lapping At My Shores

    Time laps again, In gentle rhythm and beat. Time breathes life, Into my dying body and heart. Read more

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For further comforting and confronting, turn to the pages of Ana Maria Santuario…
Faith, In Stories That Change, front cover - an image of a man standing on burned, desolate land, looking up to the stars.
A Journey of Subtraction, front cover displays an autumnal tree with an empty tree at the base, inviting readers to sit and subtract pieces of The Self.
Safer Shores of Me, front cover a white rose washed u[ on the shores of an unknown, but safe land.

Feel like contemplating the world outside of yourself? Read Ana Maria’s, Letters to the World…