Poetry: using words to convey things beyond what mere words can say. Here are the poetic stories of longing and loss. Love, laughter and all that remains. Resilience, imagination, ambition, achievement. Hubris, failure, turmoil, stillness, calmness. The agreements that keep us civil, the kindnesses that keep us sane. Speaking into the void, feeling heard and unheard. The disagreements, departures and arrivals that bring us anger, clarity, bliss. Works of connection, disconnection, reconnection, courage, hunger, renewal. The leaps of faith into the abyss, spontaneity, hope, doubt, death and rebirth. The joys of friendship, remembering, hiding and being found, none too early, never too late, misunderstandings and new understandings. Knowledge and innocence, wisdom, wellness, freedom and consequence, promises kept and lost, emptiness and fulfilment.