A playlist of my reader's echoes - springtide folk edition

Photographed by Jordie Hennigar

As the air takes a leniency of wind force to that of gentle and warm existence, I have found myself wandering in the past as a relic to the reader's I have met through my poetry book When Words Flow, unaware of how provoking their stories will be to the strings of my own emotive instrument.

With springtime, we migrate from dormancy to having bud hope as the days get longer, easing our way to enjoyment. But, with heartbreak two things might out-rival your movement to the blooming life you need:

The Out-rivals

1) Melancholy

We melted into our sorrows for so long, holding onto the only memories existing within our grief, that moving in the direction of ease and play can be another sadness of not wanting to forget. Pain is the outcome of love and its hard to accept moving forward from a love that only exists in memory.

2) Sympathy

It's a challenge to walk a life ahead when what you loved cannot move alongside you in that direction. We wrap into guilt; the guilt of finding pleasures in life again and the guilt that what you loved cannot share the ease of life with you anymore.

I curated this playlist as the echoes of those reader's I met that summer. Each track welcomes the journey of feeling those out-rivals while prompted gently with the season to bloom knowing that you are to live in honour of the love that cannot exist in the flesh.

This is the

SPRINGTIDE FOLK EDITION