When I Bloom in the Ashes: Poems on Healing and Memory

By Zara Baleba

This book is a journey through the places we rarely name aloud-the rooms inside us where memory lingers, where loss reshapes the light, where healing begins in small, quiet ways. These poems were written for the moments when language feels too fragile to hold what we carry, yet somehow becomes the only vessel strong enough to try.

Here you will find ash and bloom, grief and renewal, silence and song. Each piece moves through the tender terrain of being human: the ache of remembering, the soft courage of surviving, the quiet rebellion of choosing to continue even when the heart feels heavy. These poems honor the weight of breath, the echo of footsteps that no longer walk beside us, and the small victories that go unnoticed by the world but change everything inside us.

This collection is not about perfection. It is about persistence. About the days when healing looks like rising. And the days when healing simply looks like staying.

You will meet the ghosts of yesterday, the fragile hope of tomorrow, the steady rhythm of growth returning like a heartbeat after a long silence. These pages hold the moments that fracture us-and the moments that stitch us back together, thread by trembling thread.

Let these poems walk with you.

Let them sit beside your sorrow, your remembering, your becoming.

Let them remind you that even in the quietest hours, you are still moving, still mending, still here.

And that is its own astonishing kind of beauty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2J4CRCP
• ISBN13: 9798274644358
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"