The Word Resort

words for feeling less alone in the world

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Hello, I’m Bel and welcome to my Word Resort - a project of thinking, feeling and memory.

It’s poetry. It’s pictures from my moving through the world. It’s a small sample of my commercial work in case you wanted to talk turkey and collaborate with me.

It's made for transience - come back to it during moments in-between things or when you’re looking for something to muse on.

Ultimately, it’s made for feeling less alone in the world.

Thanks for reading. Message me below if you’d like to chat commissions, work, words or feelings - I’d love to hear from you.

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May / June
Sigh / Swoon

Super special to have worked on the naming for @lamplightbooks.akl for friends’ new book store in Parnell.

Two favourite worlds colliding ✨Tāmaki friends - Check it out ✨

Lisa phoenixing in the Portuguese dunes 🌞

I’ve been writing love poem commissions for people for over five years now and it continues to be one of my favourite things to write. It’s all those small specificities people tell me I love the most - the mundaneness, the specificities,

Tiny moon through the window the other night.

~ good to have those reminders of the silvery insignificance of things every once and a while

I can never get a good close up of the flowers on our table but perhaps that’s the enigmatic point. I loved these - I bought them on my lunch break and they lasted almost an entire month 🌸
Safety and spontaneity ~ always swinging between the t

Crush eye view ✨

Sand desert energy - some of the best to see, some of the best to feel ✨
Olivia in Te Paki

When I was 19 during a trip to India, a friend of mine died in an accident back in New Zealand. I never got to see her funeral or say goodbye.

Returning home and watching her family grieve was the most confusing and helpless experience - here we wer

soft energy / tangible joys