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The Soft Word

Poet, Writer, & Lover of Words

09/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Day 12: L for Lonely or Loneliness. When I was pondering this word, I kept envisioning a deserted island. As I sat with that image for longer, I felt that grief was the island & the wider non-grief-touched world was the ocean. It is exactly how I felt in early grief, how I felt like the world was lapping at my shore, but the lack of grief education or grief experiences around me meant that my edges was as close as the world could get to me. Grief is truly an isolating experience, and this is why I’ll never stop sharing my experience & my ever-evolving relationship with grief. If you’re feeling alone in your grief, I see you 🫂🤍✨
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08/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Day 11: K for Keepsake
When the starting line popped into my head in my reflection session, I couldn’t help but resonate. Every day since the day she died & I encountered grief, I am one day further away from the last time I heard her voice, her laugh, or the last time I held her. That is a devastating thought, that I’ll never be closer to that again. Those things are precious keepsakes, and I endeavour to keep them alive in my memory as long as I can 🥺🪽✨
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06/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Day 9: I for Isolation
Both the miracle & the tragedy ✨
This piece sparked a lot for me in my brainstorm stage, and yet I didn’t quite feel like I conveyed all that came to me, but I do think I was able to catch a small part of my thoughts and bring them to life 🦋🐛✨
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05/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Day 8: H for Hollow 🤍 I’m sorry if you relate to these words 🫂
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04/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Day 7: G for Guilt. I think most people in grief have grappled with this moment, when joy arrives shortly after loss, and you wonder if it makes you a bad person for indulging even for a split second in laughter. I’m here to remind you, joy is not a betrayal of grief, it is a close & necessary companion 🫶🏼🫂
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03/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Day 6: F for Funeral ⛪️✨
I truly think shock is a gentle kindness early in grief. It allowed me to plan a funeral, write & read out her eulogy, sort through her clothes. So many things I wouldn’t have been able to do without the kindness & mid-air suspension of shock. Though shock carried me lots of places in the early days….the one place shock couldn’t carry me was to healing. To do that, I had to be all in the mess, not suspended above it. But for shock in those early days, I’m grateful 🤍✨
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02/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Writing Challenge: Day 5 E for Emptiness. This piece is dedicated to my mum and the way she truly made sure my life & childhood was full of all the best things: joy, love & laughter. I feel honoured to carry that mantle, and to do the same for my little love to come 🩷✨
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01/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Writing Challenge Day 4: D for Deathbed. I could really feel myself resisting sitting with this word, purely because this moment in time, when I kissed her on her cheek for the last time, and had to walk away, that moment is beyond gut wrenching to relive. No nineteen-year-old should have to kiss her mum’s barely-warm cheek goodbye and continue on to the rest of her life. It truly was the longest walk of my life 🌻😭
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31/05/2026

✨Alphabet of Grief Writing Challenge Day 3: C for Catharsis✨
Writing & poetry have definitely been my outlets of catharsis since 2021. When I started writing little things down, there’s no way I could’ve imagined where writing and poetry would take me! But for me, to get grief onto the page, it can be an uncomfortable process, but I always leave transformed and different…and to me that’s the definition of catharsis. I am grateful for what writing has allowed me to heal within myself & to also offer my words are beacons of hope for others in grief. Swipe to see the full creative process behind this poem…it’s not often I have SO many lines, they were just pouring out. But in the end, the grape press line hit hardest for me. I hope these words resonated with you 🍇✨🫶🏼
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30/05/2026

Alphabet of Grief Writing Challenge Day 2: B for Bitterness 🍊✨
Swipe to see my full creative process for this poem x
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