A poetry collection

Everything Is Fleeting

Name: Everything Is Fleeting
Author: Aida Takyrbasheva
ISBN: 978-90-90-42814-7

Five movements. One slow returning.

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.

I
The Arrival
The first opening — the body remembering it is here.
“Cradle each second like a jewel, precious and bright.”
II
The Ancestral Echo
What is given before we arrive, and what we carry forward.
“They left no estate in marble. They left the one endowment that outweighs every deed.”
III
The High Tide
The moment of being met — fully, without translation.
“You are the man who finally sees… me.”
IV
The Ebb
The receding — and what becomes possible only in loss.
“It is better to be open and aching than a queen in a house of tin.”
V
The Horizon
The line where surrender and gathering become the same gesture.
“Kismet is the wisdom of letting it go, and receiving it all.”