Whitecaps, Falling Stars, and Lonely Nights

By Julia Collia

thanks to you
I never want to be home
thanks to you
I flinch when voices raise
thanks to you
I apologize even when I’m right
thanks to you
I expect punishment no matter what I do
thanks to you
I am scared

In today’s society, young adults face unusual and serious challenges; where can they turn when dealing with tough times and difficulties that those in their lives cannot understand?

Whitecaps, Falling Stars, and Lonely Nights presents a poetry collection considering a range of topics relevant to young adults. It follows a chronological personal journey of love, toxic relationships, heartbreak, anxiety, and alcoholism in a parental figure. These verses invite you to make yourself at home, find a safe place within them, and learn from the mistakes made along the way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Mar 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665703499

Julia Collia

As a newly published 21-year-old author, Julia Collia uses her past experiences to inspire and help others. Anxiety, alcoholism, and toxic relationship are topics no one taught in school, and young adults figure out those hardships as they grow. In her book, Whitecaps, Fallings Stars, and Lonely Nights, Julia encourages readers to make themselves at home within pages- to find comfort. Join her along her three year journey, beginning in 2018 as she discovers how to cope with mental trauma and overcome seemingly impossible obstacles. Her ecopoems, We Left More Than Footprints and You Know, Plastic, have been published in Sebastian Daily. As a member of the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation’s Pole Barn Poets, she continues to write and display her work in galleries.

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