About Cidalia

I have used words to express feeling all of my life and started writing poetry when I was about nine years old. It has always been, and continues to be, the best way I know to express my feelings.

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Largely, I write about things, people, places I know, have known or experienced. My work is often deeply personal, grounded in my real-life experiences and the feelings that live in my heart and need a voice for expression.

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It has taken me five decades to write my first book of poetry, “Seasons of the Heart” which reflects a life time of feelings. Feelings about where I have been, who I have known, who I am and most importantly how I have felt throughout all of the seasons of my life.

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Like many of us for the majority of my life I gave my voice away to work, making a living in a couple of careers. First, as a Clinical Ethicist in a small community hospital in Ontario and secondly as an educator and consultant in both allopathic and complementary healthcare. I was immersed, often I felt buried, in the day-to-day chores and duties we all have to do in order to make a living, be part of a family and keep things going.

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For the longest time I thought I had no time for feelings. And then my beloved mother Olivia passed away in 2018 and the dam in my heart burst and my pent-up feelings overflowed into my first book of poetry and the development of Creations by Cidalia as a means of sharing this work.

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I am not a clever poet. I do not play by the rules. I am just an ordinary person who writes about what she knows and what she feels. I believe that anyone can hear the voice of my feelings because as human beings we share many common experiences. We all know pain, suffering, grief and loss, fear and despair but also hope, faith, peace, joy, gratitude and love.

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My hope and my dream are that we can find a common language in poetry which I believe can be an important voice for some of our deepest feelings.