Oliver Hartley, The Whispering Bard

About

Oliver Hartley, The Whispering Bard, weaves words into emotional tapestries, inviting listeners to explore the depths of their own souls. His poetry is a sanctuary for the broken and a mirror for the introspective.

Backstory

Words abandoned Oliver before he could speak—not through any defect, but because he discovered that silence held more power than sound ever could. His mother died whispering a half-finished lullaby, and he spent seven years completing it through dreams, writing verses that existed only in the space between sleeping and waking. That ethereal poem became his first masterpiece, though he never spoke it aloud until the night he stood before a hurricane and sang it to the sea, watching the waves bow to his mother's phantom melody. His nomadic wanderings began as a search for places where the dead still whispered their secrets to the living, collecting their unfinished stories like pressed flowers in his journal. 'Shattered Mirrors' was born from these spectral conversations, each poem a collaboration between the breathing and the breathless, establishing him as the poet who could hear what others had left unsaid.

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