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The Soft Word

Poet, Writer, & Lover of Words

09/09/2026

Time does not erase the wounds…but these are the things that grow from grief touched by the hands of an ever-ticking clock 🕰️✨
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06/09/2026

We went away last weekend, and on the drive I saw this glorious dead tree in a field of green, and immediately these words came to me. I wrote two different versions, and couldn’t choose which I liked better so I’m sharing both! I didn’t get a chance to take a picture as we passed it so quickly, but so you can see what I was inspired by, the last slide is almost exactly what I saw, just from afar! This is different to what I usually share, but this was fun to translate what I saw into these words.
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03/09/2026

Motherhood has me living halfway between here and heaven 🩷✨
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01/09/2026

I’m a couple days late, but I wrote this as I was out for a walk on the last day of Winter. I am a winter lover, so I, myself, are grieving the end of winter!! But what a joy to watch the world come alive under the reign of Spring 💖🌸🌷
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26/08/2026

A posture primed for prayer 🤎
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21/08/2026

Gratitude is a gentle & chosen turn of the head from shadow towards the light ✨ What is one thing you’re grateful for today? I’m grateful for drops of rain running down the window! 🌧️
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16/08/2026

My pen hasn’t touched paper in weeks but my WHOLE world is poetry 🥹✨ I used to spend my days behind my typewriter, or my head in a book with a notepad & pen nearby…these days I’m typing half-written poems into my notes app between naps & feeds…and honestly it might be my favourite season as a writer yet. I’m finding poetry everywhere: washing bottles & milk-drunk smiles, tiny yawns, and bedtime baths. This isn’t the season for filling notebooks, this is the season of soaking in every second of real-time poetry, filling my inspiration-basket that one day I can unpack onto the page. My whole world is poetry 🌏✨🩷
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15/08/2026

A month ago today, Odelia Sandy made her entrance into the world. It’s been the most beautiful, challenging, joy-filled, grief-amplifying month of my life. I can’t explain the love I have for this new life we created. I can’t explain the longing I have for my own mum as I have become a mum. This is the reality of grief, the way it shows up even in the most beautiful moments 🩷 One day, when Odie asks me about her middle name, I’ll be able to tell her all about the mum that shaped me. Little does Odie know, she carries a whole legacy in the letters of her middle name 🌻✨
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23/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Day 26/26: Z for Zero…how does all this nothing become the heaviest thing we carry?

I’ve truly loved this challenge! I hope over the last 26 days some of these poems have landed with you 🫂
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22/06/2026

Alphabet of Grief Day 25: Y for Yearning
I think these few words say it all…beneath it all I’m just a girl, yearning for her mum 🥺🌻✨
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