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After the Tender Storm: Poems on Love, Loss, Self-Discovery, and New Beginnings
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 27 2025
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.15 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
After the Tender Storm is a lyrical poetry collection that traces the quiet, courageous journey from love to loss, and from loss back to self.
Divided into four intimate sections, Love, Loss, Self-Discovery, and New Beginnings, this book invites readers into the emotional landscape of loving deeply, grieving honestly, and healing without hardening. These poems do not rush pain or romanticize survival. Instead, they sit with the truths we often carry silently: the ache of loving in good faith, the weight of unanswered endings, the slow reclaiming of voice, and the bravery it takes to begin again with wisdom rather than fear.
With tenderness and clarity, Callista Charlemagne-Daniel explores what it means to open the heart without losing oneself. Love here is not portrayed as spectacle, but as presence. Loss is not reduced to devastation alone, but revealed as a teacher. Healing is not framed as forgetting, but as learning how to remember without bleeding.
These poems speak to those who have loved deeply and had to let go; to those who have learned boundaries after heartbreak; to those discovering that softness, when paired with discernment, is strength. The voice throughout the collection is gentle yet resolute, offering reassurance without illusion and hope without urgency.
After the Tender Storm is not a promise that pain will never return. It is an offering for readers who are learning to trust themselves again, to choose peace over explanation, presence over potential, and wholeness over survival.
This collection is for anyone standing in the quiet after a storm, realizing they are still here, and ready, slowly, to begin again.
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