Julie Miles is an internationally celebrated poet, children’s author, and founder of Still Waters Poetry, a multicultural and literary community that uplifts voices from every corner of the globe. With a career spanning more than three decades and more than thirty-six published titles, Julie’s work knits together the universal threads of healing, heritage, and hope. Her poetry has been featured in international journals, anthologies, and global poetry forums, earning her recognition as a writer whose words cradle the soul and ignite the spirit.
Julie is passionate about creating inclusive literary spaces where writers can flourish. Through Still Waters Poetry, she selects and compiles anthologies that celebrate diversity, resilience, and the shared human experience, offering emerging and established poets alike a platform to be heard.
Her beloved children’s books, including The Kindness Club series and the Maria and Jose series, invite young readers into worlds of compassion, cultural celebration, and joyful imagination, gently guiding them toward empathy and understanding.
More than an author, Julie is a mentor, a memory keeper, and a tireless advocate for the power of words to comfort, awaken, and transform lives. She finds joy in crafting certificates of encouragement for fellow poets, supporting new voices, and honoring the loved ones whose stories continue to shape her own.
Whether writing verse that stirs quiet reflection or crafting tales that make children’s hearts dance, Julie Miles remains a guiding light in the literary world, an artist committed to leaving behind a legacy of kindness, connection, and creativity.
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A Love Letter To The Man I Love
I have carried your name
like a secret hymn
through the corridors of my days—
soft in the morning
when the world is still dreaming,
fierce at midnight
when the stars seem to know my ache.
Your laughter has rooted itself
in the hollow of my ribs,
a sudden garden
where there used to be silence.
Even the wind
learned your cadence—
it brushes my cheek
as if rehearsing your touch.
I write you now
not to summon you back
but to honor the tremor
of having loved so deeply—
a trembling
that still shapes the way
I say the word hope.
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The Impact of Aging Love
Once, love arrived
like a trumpet—
brash, golden, impossible to ignore.
Now it comes
like candlelight,
low and steady,
unafraid of darkness.
It is the hand
that reaches for mine
even as the bones protest,
the gaze that lingers
though the lashes have thinned.
We speak less
but mean more.
We lean closer,
knowing what time
does to everything
except devotion.
Aging love is not lesser—
it is love refined,
stripped of spectacle,
burnished by storms,
a quiet ember
that outlasts the blaze.
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I Do Not Require Popularity
I am not
a candle in a crowded room
competing to be brightest—
I am the quiet flame
that warms
a single soul
who has forgotten
they are worthy of light.
I will not twist
my truth
to fit applause,
nor dilute
my wild sincerity
to be more palatable.
My art
is not an echo
of approval.
It is the roar
of everything
I survived—
and if it only reaches
one trembling heart,
that
will be enough.
Julie Miles’ poems form a luminous composition of intimacy, strength, and deep reflection. Each piece carrying the weight of lived experience and the tenderness of someone who has learned to honour every season of the heart. Her writing welcomes the deeply personal, turning moments of memory and feeling into offerings that speak to universal truths. In the poem about a love letter, she reflects the ache and wonder of carrying love through time, as if devotion can live on in the body, infusing presence and thought long after its first arrival. There is a deep admiration in the way she writes about remembering, as though memory itself becomes an act of devotion, and longing becomes a form of prayer. When she turns her attention to aging love, she does not frame it as a dimming or loss but as a refinement, a distillation of passion into something steady and enduring. The image of candlelight and the small gestures of tenderness speak to her understanding that love, at its most powerful, does not need spectacle to survive. This maturity of perspective allows her poems to reach readers who have walked through years of their own and understand that devotion can outlast the body’s strength. In her meditation on the need for popularity, she reveals an unshakable sense of artistic integrity, claiming that her work is not meant to chase applause but to reach even one trembling heart with truth. There is defiance and courage in her refusal to dilute her voice, and there is also a profound gentleness in the way she seeks to warm those who have forgotten their worth. Julie Miles’ poems create a portrait of a poet who writes for expression and for transformation. She guides readers through the corridors of longing, the glow of mature love, and the certainty that art can save, affirm, and heal. Her poems remind us that love in all its forms (youthful, weathered, or solitary) can be both a force and a sanctuary, a space for the soul continues to grow.
Toni Turner-Wong