Toasting Happiness with Spices

By Mary Anne Phillips

A raw, intimate poetry collection for anyone learning how to breathe through loss.Toasting Happiness with Spices by Mary Anne Phillips is a deeply moving grief poetry book about love, absence, memory, and the painful first steps after losing someone who still feels present in every room, routine, and breath.

Written with emotional honesty and a fragmented beauty that mirrors the experience of mourning, this collection of poetry for grief walks through denial, shock, longing, guilt, spiritual questioning, and the strange tenderness of continuing a bond beyond physical life. Each poem feels like a private conversation with a lost loved one, capturing the moments grief makes ordinary life feel unfamiliar: shopping alone, reading old messages, making food, facing the ocean, remembering laughter, and searching for signs of presence.

This is not a polished guide to recovery. It is something more vulnerable. These are poems about grief and loss written from inside the first days of heartbreak, where love refuses to become past tense and healing does not arrive neatly. The speaker wrestles with questions many mourners carry quietly: Why did this happen? Could I have done more? Are you at peace? How do I keep living when part of my world has disappeared?

For readers seeking poetry about healing, this book offers companionship rather than easy answers. It honors the confusion, anger, devotion, and sacred connection that remain after death. It reminds us that grief is not the opposite of love. It is love continuing in a changed form.

Tender, searching, and emotionally unguarded, Toasting Happiness with Spices is ideal for readers who connect with poems about losing a loved one, reflective writing, and heartfelt poetry that gives language to what sorrow often leaves unsaid.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CJL27YWK
• ISBN13: 9798862121780
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"