Top Five Wednesday/ Poetry Collection

I’m pretty sure this is an unpopular post, but I thought it would be fun, so doing it anyway. I’m not worried about my reading goal since I’m on my 80^th book, so close to my 100-book goal. Most of which come from Kindle, and I didn’t get many extra books outside of the books I got for this post, which are poetry collections.

Goodreads Blurb:

“People with borderline personality disorder are like people with third-degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.”
— Dr. Marsha Linehan

BORDER LINES is a raw, unflinching collection of poetry that plunges into the turbulent world of Borderline Personality Disorder through the eyes of a man living life at maximum volume.
Rohan Ellis captures the pain, isolation, and fractured identity of the BPD experience with brutal honesty, balanced by moments of fierce joy and hope.
“i do not cry, my lungs just rupture.
i do not laugh, my throat just splits.
i am not afraid, i am a frantic hand,
pulling the panic button from its wire”

The collection explores themes of mental health, depression, anxiety, and grief, offering a vivid and compassionate glimpse into the chaos beneath the surface and the human struggle to be seen and Borderline Personality Disorder, mental health poetry, confessional poetry, free verse poetry, autobiographical poetry, modern poetry, urban poetry

Goodreads Blub:

Melodies turned to poetry.

Deep intention with wide directions.

The human mind scattered throughout.

Romance, melancholy, reality, and hectic.

Both Fiction and Non-Fiction, all about the depiction.

Hints throughout, relating to a romance series of Teah Walker’s.

Bond and relate to characters to come, that will bring long lasting comfort.

Goodreads Blurb:

Love like you’d never say goodbye. Weep as though you’d never love again. Let these poems speak the deepest longings of your heart.

Poignant, timeless and true. This book is a personal collection of poems about love and letting go. Whether it be a newfound love, a love that endures a lifetime, or a love that will soon be saying goodbye, one can find in these pages something like a mirror that tells the story of one’s own heart.

My Heart’s Deepest Wound

I guess you will always be
my heart’s deepest wound.
The kind that aches terribly.
The kind that time could never heal.

I glimpse a memory of you
and I feel it!
I feel both the joy and the pain
of loving you.
Yes, loving you.

For I have never really forgotten.
How could the heart forget?
Had I not loved you,
I’d have moved on already.
Had I not loved you,
You wouldn’t have been able
to cause me pain.

But I did.
I loved you then, and I love you now.
You will always be
the deepest wound in me.
That’s how strongly
you are etched
upon my heart.

“I see now that no person who has ever loved has ever been spared from tears. Tears of joy and tears of sorrow. Of the most intimate union and of letting go.”

Amazon Blurb:

In Dare to Meet the Self You Abandoned, voices once silenced are finally heard. These pages hold the quiet corners of our hearts where love, hope, and survival asked us to disappear. They trace the invisible lines of endurance mistaken for strength, and the gentle courage it takes to return to the self we left behind.

“we abandoned ourselves in the name of love
folded our voices smaller
so they would fit
inside someone else’s comfort
and still, the parts that waited
never stopped whispering
come back”

Through poetic insight and reflective prose, this book invites you to recognize the patterns that once kept you safe, and to meet the self you learned to leave — with compassion instead of shame. A quiet companion for anyone who has forgotten the weigh Bt of their own voice, it is a tender invitation to return home to yourself.

Amazon Blurb:

For Every Friend, From Every Chapter is a collection of poems on friendship written for the women who supported, encouraged, and understood us in ways no one else ever could. These pieces celebrate inside jokes, shared history, difficult seasons, and the moments that brought you closer than you ever expected.

The collection captures the emotions of growing up, growing apart, and growing into ourselves with moving clarity. It honors the girls we once were and the women we have become, reflecting on nostalgia, identity, healing, hope, and the lasting influence of friendship and girlhood.

Perfect for fans of friendship poetry, women’s coming-of-age stories, and heartfelt gift books, For Every Friend, From Every Chapter is a collection to share with someone who changed your life — or to keep close as a reminder of the relationships that continue to shape your world.