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A poetry collection by Aida Takyrbasheva

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Part prayer, part love letter, part companion for the journey home to yourself.

Aida Takyrbasheva is a Kyrgyz-American poet, author, speaker, startup advisor and entrepreneur writing on intuition, becoming and human intelligence. She is the author of Everything Is Fleeting. Her work explores self-trust, intuition, presence, impermanence, human intelligence and possibility.

Away from the page, she builds, advises and speaks across technology, startups and go-to-market strategy — asking what remains distinctly human as artificial intelligence grows more capable. Intuition, emotional intelligence, self-trust and discernment run through the poems and the stages alike: one question, asked in two languages. What becomes more valuable when intelligence is no longer scarce? That question is the ground of Possibility Intelligence (PQ), the framework she is developing for intelligence under uncertainty.

Poems about grief and letting go · Self love poems · Press and appearances.

Everything Is Fleeting

“Even shadows change allegiance with the turning of the sun.

Each day, a promising beginning has begun”

— from Everything Is Fleeting

Everything is always arriving, even as it leaves. Light travels across the room, the sea slips from the shore and gathers again, a familiar self recedes as another comes quietly into view. We live inside this constant exchange, touched by what passes through us, altered by what we love, carried forward by what we cannot keep.

The fleeting asks for intimacy with change. An open hand. A willingness to meet each arrival without asking how long it intends to stay. Somewhere in that surrender, beginnings become easier to recognize.

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The Art of Impermanence

“Love in the dawn’s dialect,the vocabulary of light”

— from Everything Is Fleeting

There is an art to holding a moment lightly enough that it can remain alive. The tide reaches our feet and retreats, taking the ground grain by grain; morning enters through the window and slowly becomes afternoon; the people we love change before our eyes, as do we.

Impermanence gives beauty its pulse. It leaves the hand open to receive, release and receive again, trusting that return has never required repetition. The wave comes back in full, carrying another shape, another shimmer, another chance to stand at the edge of ourselves and feel the world moving.

Everything Is Fleeting poetry books by Aida Takyrbasheva with pink peonies

The Gift of Presence

“the sun has been living right here:in your heart.”

— from “Letter to Ai,” The High Tide

Presence begins in the senses, in all that is easy to miss until we remember to look. Warm porcelain between the palms. Salt tightening on sunlit skin. A trace of perfume after someone has left the room. Sun glitter scattering across the sea, each fragment of light appearing for an instant before giving itself back to the water.

To be present is to enter the moment at its smallest aperture and discover how much life fits inside. The senses draw us closer until time becomes texture, temperature, scent, sound, light. Here, the ordinary turns luminous simply because we have arrived in time to witness it.

The Practice of Empowerment

There is a voice beneath the noise of expectation, inheritance, ambition and permission. It speaks in instinct, in the body’s quiet pull toward one direction, in the inexplicable certainty that arrives before language has caught up.

Empowerment begins with the practice of not abandoning ourselves. Self-confidence is built quietly, through the promises we keep in private, the boundaries we honor when it would be easier to betray them, the small choices that teach us we can trust our own word. Each time we remain loyal to what we know, we leave behind another piece of evidence: I will not leave myself here.

With practice, the inner La Rose des Vents, our compass rose, sharpens. We learn its directions by following them, leaning into the deep knowing without diluting it with doubt, and developing an unwavering faith in possibility before certainty has arrived.

This is where Possibility Intelligence, or PQ, begins: the human capacity to sense what could be, to recognize possibility before there is proof, and to move toward it with enough self-trust to give the unseen a chance to become real.

Confidence grows in that fidelity to ourselves. Promise by promise, boundary by boundary, choice by choice, we become fluent in our own knowing and discover the quiet authority of a life authored from within.

Every version comes with us: the tender, the audacious, the grieving, the unfinished, the woman who knew long before she was ready to admit what she knew.

Becoming carries them all forward.

Possibility Intelligence

Possibility Intelligence, or PQ, is our capacity to sense what could be before there is proof, discern which possibilities are worth following, and trust ourselves enough to move toward them.

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7 Days of Presence

A journaling invitation at the close of the book.

Come meet yourself there.

Whispers from the book

“The old self is a garment I can no longer wear.”
From: Unthreading the Line

The Book

A Poetic Spell Book of Presence

Everything Is Fleeting is a collection of poems about love, ancestry, longing, loss, wonder, and the fleeting nature of being human.

Written across continents, seasons, relationships, and versions of the self, these poems trace the quiet transformations that shape a life. They move through inherited stories, first loves, heartbreaks, family rituals, departures, returns, and the moments that arrive unannounced yet alter us forever.

Part poetry collection, part companion, part invocation, Everything Is Fleeting is a poetic spell book of presence: an invitation to return to what is here, to honor what has been, and to soften your grip on what was never meant to stay.

At its heart, this is a book about impermanence. About learning to hold life with open hands. About discovering that what disappears often leaves behind its own kind of wisdom.

Aida Takyrbasheva signing copies of Everything Is Fleeting at a table with pink peonies

The collection unfolds in five movements

  • I.

    The Arrival

    The awakening. The first remembering.

  • II.

    The Ancestral Echo

    Inheritance, memory, and the voices that travel through us.

  • III.

    The High Tide

    Love, devotion, intimacy, and being truly seen.

  • IV.

    The Ebb

    Grief, endings, shadow, and the sacred work of letting go.

  • V.

    The Horizon

    Integration, surrender, and the beauty of beginning again.

Read it slowly.

Open to any page.

Return to the poems that call your name.

Like life itself, the journey is not linear.

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