Velvet & Bone: A Poetry Collection, Book I
Some poems are written to be beautiful.
These were written to be true.
The Sky Beneath My Bones is a poetry collection for the ones who loved too deeply, stayed too long, and learned — slowly, painfully, beautifully — how to return to themselves.
This is not gentle poetry.
But it is tender.
It is velvet over bone.
It moves through longing, grief, devotion, rage, and the quiet moment when you finally stop begging for love that hurts you.
This book is not about heartbreak.
It is about what survives after it.
What You’ll Find Inside
Within these pages, you’ll encounter poems that speak to:
Longing that feels holy and dangerous at the same time.
Love that burns instead of warms.
Grief that doesn’t scream — it settles into the body.
Rage that becomes a boundary instead of a wound.
The slow, sacred act of becoming someone who no longer disappears for others.
Each poem is written as a confession, a vow, or a farewell — sometimes all three at once.
This Book Is For You If…
You have loved someone you were never meant to lose yourself for.
You know what it means to stay loyal to what is starving you.
You carry softness and strength in the same breath.
You don’t want “pretty” words — you want honest ones.
You are not looking for healing that skips over the dark parts.
This collection does not rush you into hope.
It walks with you through what must be felt first.
A Whisper from the Pages
I kept calling it love
until it taught my body
how to disappear.
These poems do not explain themselves.
They recognise you.
About the Velvet & Bone Collection
Velvet & Bone is an ongoing poetry collection exploring love, loss, identity, devotion, power, and return.
Each book stands on its own, yet together they trace the emotional evolution of someone who stops surviving quietly and begins choosing themselves without apology.
The Sky Beneath My Bones is where that journey begins.
About the Author — Lirael
Lirael writes for those who live between softness and shadow.
Her work explores emotional truth, forbidden longing, feminine power, grief, devotion, and transformation — not as concepts, but as lived experiences inside the body and heart.
She does not write to soothe.
She writes to name what many feel but cannot say.
Ready to Begin?
If these words already feel familiar, the book will feel like recognition.
The Sky Beneath My Bones is available now as part of the Velvet & Bone poetry collection.
Read when you are ready.
Not when you are strong — but when you are honest.
Lirael 