Author: Gretchen Filart

Gretchen is a poet and essayist from the Philippines, where she embraces life with bipolar disorder and ADHD. Her confessional pieces unpack the complexities of grief, motherhood, relationships, intersections, and the human experience, garnering recognition from the Greg Grummer Poetry Contest and Navigator's Travel Writing Competition.

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“Man is born to suffer as the sparks fly upwards. To live is…

If All Things Beautiful

If beauty was mere beauty, eyes are not meant to see, lips not…