The Library of Ashes
Here, every poem is a smoldering page — whispered confessions, soft ruins, and sacred rage. Wander newest to oldest.
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Give Me (I’ll Give) | A Playful Confidence Poem by Rowan Evans
Give me a beat, a graveyard, a lyric, or even a drink—and I’ll give you a bar, a ghost, a joke, or a toast. A short, playful flex about turning almost anything into poetry.
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Let Me Be Pacific | A Poem About the Ocean, Distance, Love, and Connection
A lyrical poem about sitting beside the Pacific Ocean and discovering that an enormous body of water can become a bridge between distant hearts. Through ocean imagery, wordplay, and reflections on California and the Philippines, Let Me Be Pacific explores how love and poetry can cross even the greatest distances.
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My Nightmare | A Poem About Love, Distance, Hope, and Kintsugi
A poem about the nightmare of loving someone across distance, seeing the world from different perspectives, and holding onto the hope that the cracks can still be repaired—and that someday two separate shores might become one.
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Nobody² (No Body) | A Minimalist Poem About Loneliness and Absence
A minimalist poem playing with the double meaning of “nobody”—exploring loneliness, isolation, absence, and the feeling of becoming a ghost within your own life.
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Conductor | A Poem About the Power of Words and Breath by Rowan Evans
A dark, intimate poem about the strange power words can have over the reader—where rhythm, rhyme, and line breaks become instruments capable of reaching beyond the page.
