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.

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“Man is born to suffer as the sparks fly upwards. To live is…

If All Things Beautiful

If beauty was mere beauty, eyes are not meant to see, lips not…