Poetry by Britt Wolfe

I publish a new poem every single morning. Or mourning. Depends on the emotional forecast. Some are tender. Some are rage in a nice outfit. All of them are my attempt to make sense of the human experience using metaphors, emotionally charged line breaks, and questionable coping mechanisms.

Let me be clear: these poems are fiction. Or feelings. Or both. Sometimes they’re exaggerated. Sometimes they’re the emotional equivalent of screaming into a throw pillow. Sometimes they’re just a vibe that got out of hand. They are not confessions. They are not journal entries. They are not cry-for-help-coded-messages. (I have actual coping strategies. And group chats.)

Poetry, for me, isn’t about answers. It’s about shouting into the abyss—but rhythmically. Some pieces will whisper, “Hey… you okay?” Others will show up uninvited, grab you by the collar, and scream, “SAME.” They’re moody, messy, and occasionally helpful—kind of like me.

You’ll find themes running through them like recurring nightmares or that one playlist you swear you’ve moved on from. Love. Grief. Identity. Joy. Ruin. It’s all here, jostling for attention like emotionally unstable toddlers on a sugar high.

Think of these poems as an ongoing conversation—one I started, overshared during, and have now awkwardly walked away from. Good luck with that.

If You Leave, Take Me Too
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

If You Leave, Take Me Too

Some loves don’t just fill you—they become you. They seep into your breath, your pulse, the spaces in your home and the pauses in your sentences. This poem is for the kind of love that remakes you from the inside out, so fully and gently that the idea of living in a world without them feels like forgetting how to be. It’s not about codependency—it’s about connection so deep, so sacred, that parting feels like grief before it even happens. This is for the ones you’d follow anywhere. Even to the edge. Even into the after. 💚

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Helllllllllo, Stalker!
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

Helllllllllo, Stalker!

Some people send flowers. Others send texts. But a special kind of someone? They send traffic to your website—daily, sometimes twice. Helllllllllo, Stalker! is a deliciously petty and poetically polished callout to the uninvited observer who thinks their quiet obsession goes unnoticed. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. With razor-sharp rhymes and a strong cadence, this poem tips its hat to the joys of Google Analytics—a tool that reveals not only who’s watching, but just how often. It’s a thank-you note wrapped in sarcasm, sealed with a pixel, and delivered straight to the browser of the person who should’ve just minded their business.💚

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You Might Be The After
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You Might Be The After

There are some people who enter your life like sunlight through a window you didn’t know could open. Who don’t just love you in spite of your wounds—but love you in the places where you thought you’d never feel anything soft again. This poem is for the ones who arrive after the survival story ends—the ones who make healing not just possible, but beautiful. For the ones who remind us that maybe we weren’t just meant to endure. Maybe we were always meant to bloom. 💚

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The Bile Collector: A Poem For The Watcher Who Should Not Be Watching
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The Bile Collector: A Poem For The Watcher Who Should Not Be Watching

In The Bile Collector, the unseen watcher becomes a visceral force—a spectral presence that invades the sanctum of privacy with the stench of decay and relentless scrutiny. This poem transforms the abstract notion of digital surveillance into a vivid, almost tangible horror: an unwelcome guest whose gaze slithers like mould along hidden corners of the soul, whose very presence is felt as bile rising in a parched throat. Laden with hyperbolic comparisons and rich allegory, the piece invites you to confront that creeping, repulsive intimacy of being observed—a reminder that in the silence between each click and search, someone, or something, is always watching.💚

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What The Movies Never Told Us
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

What The Movies Never Told Us

We’re so often told that love must be chaos to be real—that it needs grand gestures, wild arguments, stormy reunions. But what if love is meant to be something quieter? Something that doesn’t demand, but invites? What the Movies Never Told Us is a poem about the kind of love that feels like slipping into a cool lake on a summer day—refreshing, honest, and whole. It’s about ease. About deepening, step by step, into something that doesn’t crash or consume, but holds you. A reminder that sometimes the most profound love is the one that lets you exhale.💚

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And Then You
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

And Then You

Some loves don’t arrive to disrupt the quiet we’ve made for ourselves—they arrive to join it. To add to it. This poem is a reflection of that kind of love: gentle, reverent, unexpected. And Then, You is for anyone who has found peace in their own company, only to discover that the right person doesn’t take that peace away—they become part of it. It’s about the moment solitude shifts into something even more luminous, like the moon rising into a sky that was already beautiful, but is now breathtaking.💚

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The Way We Begin
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

The Way We Begin

There’s something exquisitely brave about loving someone through fear—not because the fear is gone, but because the love is greater. This poem is an offering for those moments when hearts hesitate but still choose each other. It’s for the kind of love that doesn’t pretend to be fearless, but holds hands anyway and whispers, let’s stay. The Way We Begin is about facing love not as a guarantee, but as a sacred risk worth taking. A soft, honest declaration that says: I’m here. And I want to feel everything—with you.💚

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Blooming Is Not The Same As Growing
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

Blooming Is Not The Same As Growing

There are times in life when blooming feels impossible—when the world is too sharp, too loud, or too cold. This poem is a reflection on those seasons, and a gentle reminder that we, like flowers, don’t bloom for everyone or everything. We bloom when we are safe. When we are loved. When the sun touches us in just the right way. Blooming Is Not the Same as Growing is a love letter to resilience, to tenderness, and to the quiet, instinctive pull toward light. It is for anyone who has ever withheld their colour until the world felt worthy of it. 💚

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Double Bind Communication
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

Double Bind Communication

This poem is both a diagnosis and a declaration—a name for the cruelty that masquerades as care, and a voice for the child who was trapped inside its impossible logic. Double Bind Communication is a psychological tactic often used by emotionally immature or narcissistic parents to control their children without appearing cruel. It keeps the child forever wrong—too much, not enough, delusional, forgetful—no matter what they do. This poem is for anyone who was told their truth was a betrayal, their memories a crime, and their healing a threat. It is not just poetry—it is a testimony. And for those who know this pain, may it feel like being finally, beautifully understood. 💚

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You Called It Love (But I Know What It Was)
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You Called It Love (But I Know What It Was)

There comes a moment—quiet at first, then roaring—when the weight of pretending is heavier than the truth. When you finally stop twisting yourself to fit into someone else’s denial, and start telling your story exactly as it happened. This poem is that moment. It is a reckoning for those who dressed up cruelty as care, who punished you for remembering, and then punished you again for healing. It is written for every child who was silenced, blamed, gaslit, and dehumanized—and who now refuses to return to the fire just to prove they can still burn. This is not a plea for understanding. It is a statement of fact. A farewell to fiction. And above all, a declaration of love—for the self that made it out. 💚

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No-Win, No More: For The Ones Who Keep Surviving
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No-Win, No More: For The Ones Who Keep Surviving

There are some wounds that do not bleed but echo. Some homes that were never homes, only battlegrounds disguised as family. When the people who claim to love you twist your reality, silence your voice, and shame your very breath, healing is not just survival—it’s rebellion. This poem is for every soul who was told they were the problem, when all they ever did was try to find the door out of the maze. It’s a reckoning. A remembering. And most of all, it’s a declaration: you are not lost—you were just never meant to belong in a world built on denial. Read this slowly. Let it echo. Let it free you. 💚

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I Admire Your Bravado (Except Not Really)
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I Admire Your Bravado (Except Not Really)

Sometimes the truth doesn’t need to shout—it just needs to press play. This poem is a razor-edged ode to every bold-faced lie that thought it could outrun the facts, to every performance that crumbled beneath the weight of its own contradictions. It’s about the courage it takes to stand your ground when justice is on your side, and the twisted spectacle of someone betting everything on a version of events already disproven by their own voice. I Admire Your Bravado is a lyrical reckoning—a reminder that in the end, the truth doesn’t flinch. It rolls tape.

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Laughing With My Mouth Full
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

Laughing With My Mouth Full

Laughing With My Mouth Full is a celebration of joy in its most visceral, unfiltered form—the kind of joy that doesn't ask permission or wait to be observed. It’s about revelling in the messiness of being alive, about choosing presence over perfection, flavour over formality. This poem is for the women who live vividly, who taste every moment, who dare to take up space and sound and sensation without apology. It’s for the ones who laugh mid-bite, who spill wine while storytelling, who know that elegance isn’t silence—it’s the art of fully inhabiting your life. This is a love letter to embodied joy, and a refusal to ever quiet it down. 💚

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What He Said To me After Court
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

What He Said To me After Court

This poem is about a moment I’ll never forget—standing outside a courtroom, raw and rattled, after being forced to sit through lies meant to break me. It’s about the man who met me there, not just with love, but with fury on my behalf. My husband has always seen me clearly, even when others tried to distort the view. What He Said To Me After Court is a tribute to that kind of love—the kind that holds you upright when you’re shaking, that speaks truth over you when the world tries to bury you in falsehoods. This poem is what it feels like to be chosen, again and again, by someone who sees all of you and still says, “You are worth it.” 💚

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I Didn’t Mean To Leave You Too: For My Sister
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I Didn’t Mean To Leave You Too: For My Sister

This poem is for my sister—the one I left behind when I ran. I didn’t mean to leave her. I was running from pain, from damage, from a past that threatened to drown me if I didn’t break free. But in saving myself, I also abandoned the people who loved me most. It took me years to return, to find the courage to reach out, to ask if there was still space for me in her life. Her forgiveness was a gift I can never repay—only honour, with love and presence and truth. This poem is my heart laid bare. It’s the apology I’ve carried for too long, and the gratitude that spills over every time I remember what it means to be welcomed home. 💚

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They Will Not Hold Me Here
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

They Will Not Hold Me Here

This poem is a declaration—for every person who has fought to outgrow the limitations of their upbringing, only to be met with resentment instead of recognition. It’s for those of us who have had to claw our way out of generational dysfunction, who have risen not in spite of where we came from, but because we refused to stay there. They Will Not Hold Me Here is both a condemnation and a liberation. It’s a reminder that we are not defined by the people who couldn’t love us well. That our success, our joy, and our unapologetic voices are not betrayals—they are revolutions. And when we rise, we don’t rise alone. 💚

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Shortbread Cookies
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

Shortbread Cookies

This poem is an ode to the kind of love that doesn’t shout, but shows up—in flour-dusted countertops, in buttery dough pressed into stars and hearts, in the quiet patience of a mother guiding tiny hands. My mother’s shortbreads weren’t just cookies. They were her way of loving out loud without ever needing to raise her voice. What began as a gift for one became a tradition that wrapped around our family like warmth in winter. Even now, long after I lost her original recipe, I carry the essence of those moments with me—each stolen bite of dough, each Christmas spent baking, a memory etched into my bones. This poem is for her. For the sweetness she stirred into my childhood. And for the little ones I now hold close, so they’ll always know that love is in the doing, in the giving, in the small, sacred acts we pass down. 💚

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Apple Butter: For My Mother
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

Apple Butter: For My Mother

This poem is a tribute to my mother—her quiet care, her unseen sacrifices, and the way love can be folded into something as simple as a jar of homemade apple butter. It’s about the sweetness of being known and chosen, even in small ways, and the ache of watching that light dim under the weight of belittlement and misogyny. As I grow older, I find myself revisiting these memories with fresh eyes, wishing I had understood then what I know now. This poem holds my gratitude, my regret, and my hope that she felt my love, even when I didn’t yet have the words. 💚

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Feminist By Birthright
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

Feminist By Birthright

This one’s for the girls who were born loud, bold, and unafraid—even when the world tried to hush them. Feminist by Birthright is a joyful, defiant anthem for every woman who didn’t become a feminist, but always was one—before she had the words for it, before she even knew why the rules felt so wrong. This poem celebrates inherited fire, unshakable power, and the unbreakable rhythm of rising, again and again, with joy in our hearts and steel in our spines. It's for the ones who lead, love, cry, rage, build, and blaze—all on their own terms. Because we weren't given a seat at the table. We built our own. 💚

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When The Work is Worth It
Britt Wolfe Britt Wolfe

When The Work is Worth It

There’s something sacred about building a life with your own two hands. The kind of life that doesn’t just happen, but is carved from intention, sweat, vision, and relentless love. When the Work Is Worth It is a poem for the builders—for the ones who rise early, stay late, and pour every ounce of themselves into something bigger. It’s for the women who dream in blueprints and believe in effort, for the partners who create together, for the families who lay foundations in laughter and legacy. This poem is a celebration of the bruises, the breakthroughs, the beauty in the blisters. Because when it’s done with love? The work isn’t just worth it—it’s everything.

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