He Loved Me Once by Mary Kay Cunningham

This poetry collection focuses on the aftermath of an abusive relationship and the way you can feel trapped literally in a relationship and controlled. Some stand out poems to me of this collection were: Rotted, about the way you can feel rotten from within by them taking your sweetness for granted and using you. Give It All Back, was again, such a relatable poem about the way that we can waste time on the wrong person and after everything we just wish we had the precious time back to spend more wisely. Tell Someone and So We Stay, are two poems about the ways we are blinded by loving someone, we remain with them even when they hurt us. The Ache Of Staying, how the pain of memories can remain and stain your mind. Do You Remember? Was such a great poem about all the questions that you can be left with and wondering constantly about. Security, was a beautiful poem about how life should feel like alike the poem Existing In The Quiet, about how you feel so secure and at peace in safety with the one you love. A collection about deep hurt and the aftermath of a relationship to find acceptance and healing after it sours.

Crybaby: a collection of poetry by Lexi Scott

This poetry collection focuses on the way in life hurt can effect us from various different types of relationships. Some stand out poems of this collection to me were: Bad Guy, the opening poem of the collection was straight to the point of feeling like you have to fight to feel heard and feel like the bad guy in a situation. Avoidant, a deep poem about the effects of touch and when it was dangerous how it can still feel foreign to be good after past hurtful experiences. Broken Friendships, about having poetry as a safe way to express what you could never tell ex friends and so you write to free your mind and find healing in the aftermath. Poetic Forms, about poetry seeming sad but makes you feel seen in the relatability and vulnerability it can provide you freely. Quill, about poetry being therapeutic and freeing for your soul to again write how you are feeling and thinking. A collection that anyone I feel can easily find relatable in various ways.

Strong As A Tree Fragile As A Branch by Amanda Kviatkovski

This poetry collection focuses on the metaphor of humans being alike tree's in the way we can grow up big, strong but still we can act reckless, feel raw and breaking in the darkness, as well as talking of moods and how for tree's, storms and break or destroy relationships. Tear me apart, a poem about a sought source of ache and how we can rely on light to lean then learn to grow and how people are alike tree branches and we gather and we lose them along life's journey as we all alter. An amazing exploration of the metaphor of tree's being alike people, beautifully written.

The Universe of You: A Collection of Poems by Sophia Bray

This poetry collection focuses on using celestial language to encapsulate the feeling of the vast ways we can love and feel moved by love. One poem stood out for relatability to me and that was, The Language Of Touch, especially was a poem that spoke of the simple way touch can bind you together to your love and you can crave it so strongly. The collection used lots of beautiful galactic and astrology inspired language of you love being like a rare sight/star as well as how the ocean and moon reach for each other, never colliding but contrasting. A poem titled, After 10pm, about being desired in dark but left in daylight was truly heartbreaking in the way true love should and would choose you right in any light not just darkness when the world and life goes quiet. A true look into the universe of love.

Musings From My Notes App by Becks Lauren

This poetry collection intrigued me by the title, simple and gripping in the way it was simply casually born through everyday time we spend typing and tapping away into our phone's notes section. Some stand out poems to me were: Drive By Healing, was such a relatable poem about reclaiming the places you once shared with the one you loved and how you then make new memories to try erase the old ones from revisiting them solo. That's Why I Warn You, was again really relatable in the way you can let people in, have them hurt you, cut them off yet then they to come back into your life and how you're a one chance and you're cut off out of your life type of person not willing to give endless chances Love Is Meant To Be Light, was a simple poem about the joy of love feeling light right and erasing the past hurt you knew before Little Toes was a beautiful poem of the big joy a little life can bring to you. Groceries, was relatable about the title of the book and how our notes app can be used everyday for the mundane life tasks and art too inspired by life. A poetry collection written casually but nonetheless impactful, meaningful and thoughtful.

Reach by L.Q. Murphy

This book was a fun collection of poems, some even a couple of lines, stating facts and truths about what you learn growing up and growing through life. From advice about people, friends, pets, happiness, work life and jobs, being honest to who you are and making time matter, it has something here in the collection relatable for everyone.

I AM TRYING: A collection of poetry and prose by Sofia Romulan

This was such a relatable collection of poetry, as the title says, on the way as humans we are always trying, in life, love, friendships, relationships etc and especially the one word balance, the delicate tip between getting along and starting an argument, finding safety in silence rather than stoking the fire of an arguement. Forever lonely, was a poem about safety in being alone and unable to disappoint anyone in life too, that really stood out for the relatability of keeping to yourself and not wishing to burden anyone else with your problems. The collection also had a part talking of the walls we build to protect and hide our true selves, unable to pretend to be someone somewhere else, the way we can talk negatively and hurt ourselves talking down about ourselves instead of treating ourselves with caring, kindness and compassion instead pushing on to achieve or feel, or chase the next emotional high instead of being content where we are with what we have as enough, we always keep trying, as the title says.

What Their Voices Left Behind: Poems on Hurt, Survival, and Finding Your Own Voice by DORIS NDUNI

This poetry collection focuses on the way people can effect our lives and how their presence and essence alters the way we think, feel and observe. Some stand out poems of this collection to me were: Dinner Table Weather, about reading a room and person's mood and knowing what to expect served up to you. Mirror Lessons, how other people can distort our self view with harsh words that criticize rather than encourage. Report Card & Quiet Child, were two utterly relatable poems, how you become silent and observant of everything around you happening and learn how to go along with getting through. The Family Photograph, how everything can be unseen yet lingers in a frame only your eyes can read the scene knowing the truth within the frame. When Compliments Hurt, about how words from someone supposed to love you, can cut you deeply instead. Hunger, all about the way you crave to be seen and accepted for who you are with no judgement. Weather Report, was such a brilliant poem how our own emotions can mimic the weather. It was such a beautifully written poetic telling of life and the leaving and the aftermath of a relationship ending.

The Weight Of Soft Things by Apple Ram

This poetry collection focuses on the moments that can be heavy, from the weight of judgement and when you meet your love, how the small things feel so big in the way they care for you but also in the way that breaking up after years together is a different heavy weight to carry in the way they can become a stranger knowing all your secrets and also the way you lose a community you existed within happily too. It discusses the way we change and adapt after facing tough situations in life and love and how they impact us long term, especially putting ourselves before others who wouldn't choose us back too.

The Rose Of Winter by Samantha Chang

The title poem of the collection was about the beauty of resilience despite whatever alike a rose in bad weather striving to survive. It was a tender poetry collection of the fragility of life and the depth of grief around us, the feeling of being lonely when not alone too as is a hugely relatable topic these days especially I feel.