What The Silence Gave Me: Poems of becoming - Softcover

Odiete, Henrietta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1069747513 ISBN 13: 9781069747518

Publisher: Morticia Books, 2025

Synopsis

In the quietest hours, when the world fell away, I listened—and the silence answered.

What the Silence Gave Me is a luminous debut poetry collection by Henrietta O, born from heartbreak, healing, and deep self-remembering. Through verse that is both intimate and transcendent, Henrietta traces the soul’s journey from grief to grace, from silence to selfhood.

Across five sections—Enter the Silence, Longing to Stillness, Truth and Reckoning, Becoming, and Remembered by Love—the poet unravels themes of loss, self-worth, spirituality, and awakening. These pieces are invitations to pause, to feel, and to rediscover the sacred stillness that lives within us all.

Written over more than a decade, What the Silence Gave Me gathers poems once scattered across journals, notes, and quiet midnights, now woven into one offering of truth and transformation. Each poem is a step toward wholeness, a reminder that healing is not found in escaping pain but in listening to it—patiently, courageously, and with love.

With language that feels like prayer and reflection, Henrietta's voice speaks to the soul-searchers, the heart-healers, and anyone who has ever found meaning in the quiet.

If you have ever carried an unspoken ache or longed to come home to yourself, What the Silence Gave Me will meet you where you are—and guide you gently back to your center.

About this title

About the Authors

Henrietta O. is a poet and writer with a background in engineering and a passion for creative expression. As a self-taught creative, she weaves themes of healing, identity, self-worth, and spiritual awakening into her work. What the Silence Gave Me is her debut poetry collection, an offering of truth, tenderness, and transformation. When she's not writing, Henrietta finds joy in introspection, meditation, art, music, and the quiet beauty of the everyday.

Lyric Dodson is a ghostwriter and developmental editor with over eight years of professional editing experience. Her areas of expertise are personal development, mindfulness & meditation, ancestral wisdom & healing, matriarchal religion & spirituality, earth-based living, Black/Indigenous experience, and decolonization thought & praxis. Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with many talented authors and publishers who have a goal of spreading transformative, affirming, and uplifting knowledge. In addition to working with incredibly talented self-published authors, she also had the pleasure of editing for publishers such as Sounds True, Hay House, Hardie Grant, Hachette, BenBella, and Amplify Publishing, among many others.

Sebsatián is a designer specializing in book design and branding. He lives in Vicenza, Italy, a city renowned for its beautiful books. He has been immersed in the world of art, design, and illustration for over 25 years. As an art director, designer, and illustrator, he has had the pleasure of working with everyone from bestselling authors to up-and-coming talents, crafting designs for everything from high-profile magazines and art catalogues to independent books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morticia Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1069747513
• ISBN 13: 9781069747518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124
• Editor: Dodson Lyric