Moments That Stayed: Poems of Memory and Everyday Life

Moments That Stayed is Merv Nickleman's first poetry collection: a warm, companionable book of poems drawn from everyday life - conversations, walks, cafés, and memories that linger.These poems pause with small human moments: a shared silence, a remembered voice, an ordinary scene that quietly takes on meaning. Written with gentle humour and emotional openness, the work finds its strength not in grand statements but in attention to what is often overlooked.Love, loss, companionship, and hope appear here as lived experiences rather than abstractions, shaped by time and memory. The tone is reflective without heaviness, allowing lightness and tenderness to sit side by side.Each poem is paired with a black-and-white illustration that extends the feeling of the text and reinforces the book's intimate, handcrafted quality. Together, word and image form a series of small scenes to return to and linger with.This collection is for readers who enjoy poetry that is accessible, human, and rooted in ordinary days - poems to pause with, revisit, and quietly recognise.

Pagina's: 64, Paperback, Independently published