heart full of starts
the poetics of a broken beginning
Rated General Audience (GA)
This collection maps the scattered aftermath of a love built on beginnings that faltered and went dark. Split into two parts — “Starts Within Me” and “Starts Within You” — it traces the raw, cyclical journey through wishful longing, quiet mourning, restless nights, and the echo of a voice in an empty room.
These poems are confetti after the party, rose-colored glasses finally cracked. They capture the ache of loving a memory more than a person and the fragile reconstruction of a self in the quiet that follows.
These poems are a whispered reminder that even a heart full of broken starts was, once, brave enough to begin.
Content Warnings
mild family tension, sadness
General Information
04/07/2026
moods: nostalgic, hopeful, tender, bittersweet
pace: medium
pages: 115
words: 11,611
genres: reflective poetry, lyrical
format: digital
average time to read: 1 hour
Poems
PART I: STARTS WITHIN ME
i wish
i do
mourning
nighttime
nothing more
changes
confetti
forever is the sweetest con
rose-colored glasses
a museum only visited
12:03
holidays
friends
misery!
fireworks
they say
the room
love?
hate
wish
un-home
mistletoe
my dream house
choice
kid
in the bitter foam
the story
she
forgetting
in love with a nobody
7 days
silvery gold
to be seen
teenage lovers
a lot to miss
this life
evil photograph
the moving van of my heart
sad… mad
final dance
saturn
stayed
medicine
sinners
cottage
from jess
PART II: STARTS WITHIN YOU
three little weaklings
mayday street
alone by the lake
astronaut
lucid skies
the wise mysteries of life
heaven
fixated star
the folk tale myth that ends in defeat
chamomile tea
the alignment
motion sickness
drowning
moonstrone wardrobe
boiling water
communion wine
traffic lights
like it could be love
the pen
tennis court oath
night fell through
i remember
forsythia
the moon
neverland
from me