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Contentment in the Shadows
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Contentment in the Shadows is a debut poetry collection by M. Allshouse exploring grief, longing, and the quiet spaces where healing begins to take shape.
Written in a deeply lyrical and emotionally immersive voice, these poems move through darkness not as an endpoint, but as a place of reflection-where sorrow lingers, love fractures, and meaning is slowly reassembled from what remains.
Within these pages, you'll find:
- raw reflections on loss, memory, and emotional unraveling
- the tension between isolation and connection
- love as both wound and refuge
- and the fragile beauty of endurance
At once haunting and intimate, this collection speaks to those who live inside their emotions rather than around them. It does not offer easy answers-only presence, language, and the quiet insistence that something meaningful can still be made from what hurts.
For readers of contemporary lyric poetry, emotional literary collections, and reflective, mood-driven work.
Some shadows aren't empty. Some are where you learn to stay.
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