Requiem for What Remains

Poems from the Dark

Some losses never leave us.
They settle into the quiet spaces of our lives, lingering in empty rooms, old photographs, fading voices, and memories we cannot bring ourselves to release.
Requiem for What Remains is a haunting anthology of poetry exploring grief, mortality, love, regret, and the fragile distance between those who leave and those who remain.
Within these pages, survivors stand beside hospital beds counting final breaths. Children grow older carrying wounds that never fully heal. Lovers search the ruins of broken futures. The dead walk beside the living as memory, guilt, longing, and hope intertwine.
Moving through themes of death, trauma, forgiveness, resilience, and acceptance, these poems travel the uncertain path from loss toward healing without ever pretending the journey is easy.
Raw, intimate, and deeply human, Requiem for What Remains asks the questions that follow every ending:
What survives after loss?
How do we carry those we cannot keep?
And what remains when grief finally learns how to speak?
Featuring works by Arlene Cervantes, Austin Deepwood, J.W. Hale, Amelia Templeton, Jeff Hale, JL White, Zoe McDonald, Edie Leavengood, Holly Belle, Pamela Reilly, Teresa Esquivel-Waller, and Dennis Waller.
For readers who appreciate reflective, emotional poetry that lingers long after the final page.