Author: Gretchen Filart

Gretchen is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist from the Philippines, where she embraces life while managing bipolar disorder and ADHD. Her confessional pieces unpack the complexities of grief, healing, motherhood, love, and intersections, garnering recognition from the Greg Grummer Poetry Contest and Navigator's Travel Writing Competition.
From Pieces

From Pieces

A word. What is the next word? Is it of a hand trembling,…

Heather Nova LSS

I keep on playing these Heather Nova songs over and over the past…

I Love You Because

I love you when the first line starts And when it ends Until…

Apart

Distance is a bitch. And so is adulthood. Maybe not the most poetic…

Hate, Love and Awe of Men

why should we love men when they are so careless about their health,…

21 years and old

By this time, this age, I feel like a withering 45-year old woman….

Kenshee Himura’s advice

Kenshee Himura’s advice

I hear this over and again, Kenshee Himura and that one evening I…

I’m Jimmy Hendrix?!

Who were you in a past life? by Kat007 Name: Birthdate: Favorite Color: Country:…

Where is Ms. G?

SOOOOOO friggin’ bored. Passed out in the bathroom last night. In THE BATHROOM…

Hmmm…

Didi sa Bicol, naliput na sung buhay sa balay. Marunong na ng Bicol…

Blah, Blah, Blah

Magnunursing na ang lola mo. Pinale na ito ng lahat ng pinale. Wow,…

Happiness is not a fish

…it takes long to be endured, composed or rearranged, as in the weathering…

Good Morning Sunshine!

…naks. Feeling a bit better today. Actually a whole lot better than the…