Morning After Mourning: Poems on Healing and Hope by Adisa Noor

This poetry collection focuses on how you can bury grief behind a facade of the masked smile you wear, hiding your emotions as a coping mechanism. Sone stand out poems to me were: My Tears Spoke Before I Could, how tears are a universal language and an unstoppable force of a true rush of emotions. The Kindness Of Small Things, was a beautiful poem about the mundane kindness we can easily overlook too often rather than appreciate every time it occurs. Hope Cane Dressed As Ordinary Days, was a great poem, especially as a retail worker of how simply being part of a team in work and experiencing the camaraderie around you, sharing laughs and smiles can make you feel seen and tethered to life. I Am Not Who I Was - I Am More, was a great poem how you change and feel deeper and stronger emotions as grief affects you. We Are All Stories Of Survival, was a simple poem, yet powerful in the basic fact none of us live the same life and experience the same event's that shape us and our own stories and that sharing them is powerful, beautiful and shows the strength of each person through what they've faced throughout their lives. I also loved the wordplay of the title because even in mourning, a new morning will inevitably arrive.