Featured Author: Cendrine Marrouat
Light Lingers is a contemplative haiku collection that invites readers to slow down and notice how small moments quietly shape our inner and outer worlds.
There is a quiet steadiness to Cendrine Marrouat’s work: a devotion to simplicity, presence, and the emotional undercurrents of everyday life. A poet, writer, photographer, watercolor painter, and literary editor, she has built a creative life rooted in attentiveness and artistic dialogue.
Cendrine is the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms, the founding editor of The Haiku Shack Magazine, and the co-founding editor of The PoArtMo Magazine. She has authored and co-authored more than 50 books across genres, including The Homes We Seek (2024), The Meaning (2023), In Her Own Words: A Collection of Short Stories & Flashku (2022), After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine (2021), and In the Silence of Words: A Three-Act Play (2018).
Her latest collection, Light Lingers: A Collection of Haiku (2025), continues her exploration of nature and life’s subtle lessons. Guided by minimalism and a deep respect for emotional nuance, Cendrine’s work draws inspiration from writers such as Kahlil Gibran, Emily Dickinson, and Alphonse de Lamartine.
Through her poetry and visual art, she seeks to create what she describes as a “silent dialogue” with readers and viewers… an invitation to notice, to feel, and to reconnect with the beauty inherent in the present moment. Each piece encourages an embrace of imperfection, inner childlike wonder, and the quiet significance of small experiences.
Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including folk ku journal, Meniscus Literary Journal, Cold Moon Journal, Chrysanthemum, Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, The Solitary Daisy, Synkroniciti Magazine, and Spillwords. She is also the creator of several poetry forms and a type of flash fiction.
In Light Lingers, readers are invited to pause, to experience how even the smallest moment can hold profound meaning.
Book Blurb
In Light Lingers: A Collection of Haiku (2025), Cendrine Marrouat invites the reader to appreciate the simple, yet profound ways the little things shape our experiences, reminding us of the beauty found in the present.
Foreword by Poet and Writer Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky.
Readers can learn more about Cendrine and her work at:
https://creativeramblings.com/light-lingers-book/
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