Jessica Wheeler

Jessica Wheeler is a writer and poet from Branford, Connecticut, where she lives with her husband and two young daughters. Her creative journey began early, with a strong foundation in music and performing arts. After experiencing significant grief from multiple losses, writing became an essential outlet. Her poetry covers a wide variety of themes, often focusing on resilience and the complexities of loss and grief. Jessica’s work has been published in several poetry anthologies and is regularly shared across various writing platforms.
Coping With Grief

Stages

It cowers in the corner, newly born. I turn my spite-soaked back, riddled with resentment and pull the thin veil to sink beneath its cover.

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Coping With Grief

Sunflower

Golden streams journey to Earth from the sun aiming for blooms in the fields where they run rising and shining with pigments that stun growing

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Loss of Friend

Kelly’s Gone

Two words. That’s all it took for the persistent, gnawing fear that had been lurking in the depths of my mind to materialize suddenly. One

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Hindrence, Jessica Wheeler
Coping With Grief

Hindrance

Unfamiliar desperation Pride and knees hit the floor Declining in preparation Have I any more to give? All of me descends All but my beseeching

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Time, Jessica Wheeler
Coping With Grief

Time

Time. This dimension, concept, measurement, THING is impossibly simple yet undeniably complex. Defined as-the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an

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Fireworks by Jessica Wheeler
Loss of Sibling

Firework

Like a firework on the 4th of July, you shot quietly into the sky- timid and subtle. Rising higher and higher. Rising effortlessly, raising nerves and

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