Our Heritage: Poems on Childhood, Memory, and Home

By Zara Baleba

There are places we leave, but that never leave us.

Our Heritage is a journey into those tender spaces where childhood lingers in the dust of old paths, where memory rises like evening smoke, and where home - whether found, lost, or reinvented - continues to shape the rhythm of our becoming.

Through poems rich with imagery and emotion, Zara Baleba traces the intimate landscapes of early wonder, family rituals, whispered stories, and the echoes of those who walked before us. These poems reach gently into the past, carrying forward the sounds of wooden swings, the scent of rain on tin roofs, the laughter shared in fading courtyards, and the lessons tucked into everyday moments.

This collection is a meditation on belonging - how it roots itself in our bones, how it changes with time, and how it calls us back even when life pulls us far away. Each poem offers a window into the beauty and complexity of heritage: the sweetness of remembered joy, the shadows of loss, and the quiet resilience born from growing up between worlds of innocence and experience. Baleba writes with tenderness and clarity, weaving together the threads of memory into a tapestry that feels both deeply personal and universally familiar.

In these pages, you will find not only the echoes of childhood but the enduring truth that home is more than a place - it is a story we continue to carry, reshape, and pass forward.

Our Heritage invites you to reflect, to remember, and to honor the roads that have made you who you are.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G43V8DQD
• ISBN13: 9798276202266
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"