Earthbound Hearts

Earthbound Hearts is a collection of thirty poems spoken through the lives of ground-dwelling animals — creatures who survive not through dominance, but through adaptation, patience, and quiet courage.A hedgehog learns the cost of vulnerability.A tortoise walks toward completion without haste.A mole builds faith beneath unseen soil.A snake sheds yesterday to continue living.Each voice carries a human echo.Moving between stillness and survival, fear and tenderness, these poems explore what it means to live gently in a demanding world — to endure without hardening, to love without certainty, and to remain soft while staying alive.This is poetry for those who move slowly, feel deeply, and continue anyway.