The Mourning Garden
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Some girls learn to scream.
She learned to stay quiet.
The Mourning Garden is a gothic poetry collection about survival, silence, grief, softness, and becoming.
Told through ten chapters, the collection follows a journey from childhood wounds and abandonment to self-worth, healing, and choosing yourself. Each poem captures a moment, a memory, or a version of the person who lived through it.
Through acrostics, narrative poetry, concrete poems, and rhyme, these pages explore the quiet truths we carry, the ones that shape us long after the moment has passed.
A voice once buried.
A garden grown from grief.
A testament to the soft ones who survived anyway.
✦ New poems weekly
✦ New chapters every 2-3 weeks
✦ Chapters 1-6 available
Content Advisory: This collection contains themes of depression, suicide, self-harm, emotional abuse, family trauma, grief, and occasional strong language. Some poems contain dark, morbid, or emotionally intense imagery. Recommended for mature readers (18+).
Read gently.
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