Explore the Inspiration Behind the Poems
Click on each book to explore the creative muse behind each individual poem, plus prompts to guide and inspire you on your own creative journey!
In Your Bones
is a collection of poetry about deep personal and collective pain. It is a book that demonstrates the triumph of shedding layers of darkness. Parker Duke leads the reader to the power of letting go. Ultimately, these are words of healing, forgiveness, and hope.
“The worst secrets are the ones you don’t know you’re keeping that settle in your bones and seep into those hard white spaces that are alive with growing and breaking.”
- Excerpt from “It Is”, In Your Bones
Tiny Lights
is about the collective joy to be found in small things that lead to healing and/or life-changing moments. It sheds light on how to find inspiration in bringing together the bits and pieces of a life to tell the bigger story of who we are. It is a call to use smaller moments as portals to greater insight, love, and light.
“The presence waiting deep inside us. The glow in all our windows.”
- Excerpt from “A Tiny Light”, Tiny Lights
Your Tiny Light
is a children’s book about finding the divine light we carry inside. Meant to emulate the concepts in Tiny Lights and bring them to a younger audience.
“You have everything inside that you need right now.”
When You Know
is about striking the balance between showing up to care for yourself, while embracing and caring for the world.
“Loving yourself is a divine thing to do… Self love can be messy because it’s so easy to overlook ourselves. This puts us at risk because we forget what we know.”
- Excerpt from “Prologue”, When You Know