Poet Tempest
A Break in the Sky: A Poetry Collection of Heartbreak and Alchemy
divorce and grief
self-worth
healing through seeing
Poem #52
Emotions that exit
through midnight tears,
a cloudy lens that distorts the lies
Axioms bleeding onto paper
Meet Poet
Poet Tempest writes through the lens that poetry is the flooding of the soul. Releasing joys, scars, realizations, is healing and transcendent. Her poetry is guided by instinct and the elemental world around her. Emotion becomes image and understanding takes root. She writes with visceral honesty, cutting straight to the truth of the human condition.Each poem is a reckoning that begins with a feeling and ends somewhere unexpected. Her debut, A Break in the Sky, is an emotional excavation shaped by heartbreak and alchemy. The collection is raw, atmospheric, and emotionally exacting, formed by divorce, complex trauma, and the quiet brutality of healing.Her work now turns toward the upheaval of family ties, the confusion in evolving friendships, preparing for new love, and the beauty of knowing yourself. She believes in loving life by living it and embracing the past to move forward.
What's Inside
This illustrated poetry collection is a reckoning emboldened by nature. The flooding of the soul in stanzas. A visceral passage through love, abuse, self-doubt, divorce, and restitution of self.This book is for anyone who’s ever been told to suck it up.
To get over it.
That you’re too sensitive, dramatic.
This book embodies all of those things.This collection includes, but is not limited to: suicidal ideation, emotional abuse, coercion, psychological manipulation, divorce, depression, anxiety, gaslighting, and sexual assault (not by partner).Please protect yourself. Although I often write in metaphor and only gently touch on some of these topics, this is a heavy book.
If you’d like further details before reading, feel free to reach out to me.
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