Archive - OdeHeart | Self Authorship

Tending our inner and outer world

A grief ceremony with Rooted Healing

Published on Grief Balm • Aug 29

I've written a poetry collection

and here's the cover.

Aug 9 •

Seeing the good and feeling the bad; losing our joy in other people's suffering.

Aug 4 •

Administer the Laughing Gas

Book Launch October 6th @ Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham Literature Festival.

Aug 1 •

July 2024

Shirking ourselves

and finding ourselves in poetry; a process of working in rehabilitation as a therapeutic poet.

Jul 14 •

June 2024

Motherhood did not come easily.

An infinite story on how interpersonal grief (losses of Motherhood) initiated a witnessing of the deepest grief of all, the loss of Mother Earth.

Jun 26 •

March 2024

My boyfriend loved it, but didn't 'get' all of it.

A 'Sonnenizio' on a line from Kim Addonizio's Sonnenizio on a line from Drayton.

Mar 21 •

Realising trauma's confusion of the mind. A poem from my debut collection & reflections on self-discovery through writing.

Mar 3 •

February 2024

What is this thing called love?

A poem written by Dorothy from a love session at Aston Community Church & 'First Kiss' Kim Addonizio.

Feb 14 •

Discombobulate.

Out of confusion, there are things I cannot find words for, and thoughts I process through language before meditation.

Feb 12 •

I come from seeing wrong but tell you to focus on what's write.

Feb 6 •

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