Princess Samantha Kennedy
Poetry Of My Youth And Yonder
Debut Collection
Poetry Of My Youth
And Yonder
by Princess Samantha Kennedy
A deeply personal debut collection tracing the arc of a life lived fully — from the tender uncertainties of youth to the vast, open horizons of what lies beyond. Each poem is a letter written to a moment, a memory, a feeling that refuses to be forgotten.
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What the Collection Holds
Poetry Of My Youth And Yonder is a collection born from years of quiet observation — of seasons, of memory, of the strange and beautiful distance between who we were and who we are becoming. It is a book that asks: what do we carry forward? What do we leave behind? And what lives forever in that in-between space called yonder?
The poems move through time the way memory does — not in a straight line, but in spirals, returning again and again to the same moments with new eyes. A childhood afternoon. A first loss. The particular quality of light in a season you will never see again in quite the same way.
This is a book for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of their own yonder — looking back at what was, and forward at what might still be.
Themes
What the Poems Explore
Youth & Innocence
The tender, fleeting quality of being young — the way the world once felt infinite and every feeling was the first of its kind.
Memory & Time
How the past lives inside the present. The way a single moment can hold an entire life, if you look at it long enough.
Longing & Distance
"Yonder" — the horizon that is always just beyond reach. The beautiful ache of wanting something you cannot quite name.
Let the poems find you.