What happens when the feelings you cannot say aloud become the words you leave behind?

"Whispers of a Poetica" is a collection of poems born from the quietest corners of the heart—the places where love lingers, memories ache, loneliness speaks, and healing begins.

Through eight intimate sections, Koena Chakrabarti traces the emotional journey of a girl learning to understand herself: from hiding behind a smile, to falling in love and imagining forever; from the ache of almost-love and the darkness carried within, to learning to let go and slowly becoming someone new.

These poems explore the tenderness of yearning, the intoxication of love, the devastation of heartbreak, the weight of anxiety and darkness, the complicated beauty of memory, and the quiet courage of choosing yourself again.

Some poems are love letters.
Some are wounds given words.
Some are conversations with the past.
And some are the first whispers of healing.

This is not a book about having all the answers.

It is about feeling everything.

It is for the girl who loved too deeply.
For the heart that held on long after it should have let go.
For the person who smiled while quietly falling apart.
For anyone who has ever missed someone, lost someone, or lost a part of themselves along the way.

And perhaps, most of all, it is for those who are still becoming.

Open these pages gently.

You may find a little bit of yourself between the whispers.