Everything Is Fleeting

About the Book

Everything Is Fleeting moves through five tides of one life — arrival, inheritance, recognition, loss, and the long horizon that gathers it all. It is a book about what cannot be kept, and the quieter thing that remains when we stop trying.

A contemporary poetry collection on self-trust and intuition, presence and impermanence, love and grief, becoming and inner knowing — the full human spectrum of emotion and the intelligence held inside it. These are poems, not instructions: they listen rather than advise. Published by Third Place Editions, 2026.

The collection sits within a larger body of work about what remains distinctly human — intuition, emotional intelligence, discernment and the quieter forms of human intelligence. It is written by poet and author Aida Takyrbasheva, a Kyrgyz-American poet, speaker, startup advisor and entrepreneur writing on intuition, becoming and human intelligence, whose poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies — gathered on the published work and press page. Everything Is Fleeting is her debut full-length book.

Read it slowly. The sections do not need to be read in order — few things do.

From the Preface

“My life, your mirror.
My confession, your permission.”

“This is not a poetry book.

It is a poetic spellbook on empowerment.

A passage through the senses activating your inner knowing.

Each line, verse, stanza is designed to allow your body to arrive into the present moment.

Each section opens through one of your senses and lowers you so far into feeling that the world goes quiet, the noise falls away and you arrive, at last, in the only moment there has ever been.

Then, a ritual, a way to sit at last with the parts of yourself you have spent years avoiding and make your peace.

Then, an invitation to breathe.

Then, a verse.

And then — the magic of poetry.”

— from the Preface