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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
“you can be the master of your fate, you can be the captain of your soul, you just have to realize life is coming from you-not at you.”
I love Rupi Kaur's books, as they always incite emotion. I can relate on so many levels and they never fail to tear me down and build me back up.
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reflective
relaxing
sad
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emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
hopeful
inspiring
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dark
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hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I got this one recently and felt compelled to pick it up. It's so pretty and I needed a quick poetry read. I have also read Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers in recent years and enjoyed them, so it was time.
This had raised Kaur to be one of my favourite poets-especially of the modern day. I used to get annoyed with her poetry because hipster me was like "90% of it is so short and poetry is not just a line and it seems like a money grab blah blah blah" but now I GET IT.
Her drawings are so amazing and unique, I had to stop and think "how did she draw this?!" I loved the theme of reconnecting with your mind, body and self-this is definitely my favourite of her anthologies so far. It's about appreciating yourself, loving where you are and who you are. I also love how she incorporates progression and revolution into herself and uses it as a form of expression. I loved how she talked about confidence and rejecting societal norms and embracing aging. It is so refreshing!
She's been through so much, I am so happy to support Rupi and read from a perspective outside of my own. She was so kind to the reader, offering a hand and saying "I am here too." <3
Poems that were everything:
-List of things to heal your mood
-there is no place more intimate than a bed (I never saw it as my friend before!)
-you just lost perspective
-consequences
-"carry empires on your backs"
-productivity anxiety"
-"places it did not live"
-empty promises
-inspiration
-"still progress"
-awakening
-birth
-stillness
-"so many others"
-"thank you for noticing"
-balance
-"when they were alive"
-you have all of you on your side
-always evolving
Lines that struck me:
"I am loving myself out of the dark"
"I could look in the mirror and take my own breath away"
"masturbation is meditation"
"there are years in me that have not slept"
"I don't care about perfection I would rather roll deep in the messiness of life"
"play is when we escape time"
"my body renews itself in waves of ocean and blood"
"you do not belong to the future or the past"
I will keep this and cherish it and definitely return to it :)
This had raised Kaur to be one of my favourite poets-especially of the modern day. I used to get annoyed with her poetry because hipster me was like "90% of it is so short and poetry is not just a line and it seems like a money grab blah blah blah" but now I GET IT.
Her drawings are so amazing and unique, I had to stop and think "how did she draw this?!" I loved the theme of reconnecting with your mind, body and self-this is definitely my favourite of her anthologies so far. It's about appreciating yourself, loving where you are and who you are. I also love how she incorporates progression and revolution into herself and uses it as a form of expression. I loved how she talked about confidence and rejecting societal norms and embracing aging. It is so refreshing!
She's been through so much, I am so happy to support Rupi and read from a perspective outside of my own. She was so kind to the reader, offering a hand and saying "I am here too." <3
Poems that were everything:
-List of things to heal your mood
-there is no place more intimate than a bed (I never saw it as my friend before!)
-you just lost perspective
-consequences
-"carry empires on your backs"
-productivity anxiety"
-"places it did not live"
-empty promises
-inspiration
-"still progress"
-awakening
-birth
-stillness
-"so many others"
-"thank you for noticing"
-balance
-"when they were alive"
-you have all of you on your side
-always evolving
Lines that struck me:
"I am loving myself out of the dark"
"I could look in the mirror and take my own breath away"
"masturbation is meditation"
"there are years in me that have not slept"
"I don't care about perfection I would rather roll deep in the messiness of life"
"play is when we escape time"
"my body renews itself in waves of ocean and blood"
"you do not belong to the future or the past"
I will keep this and cherish it and definitely return to it :)
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Having read all three poetry books back to back, there was something more visceral about this book that I found very compelling. Her language feels a little more explicit compared to her other works.
I think The Sun and Her Flowere is still my favourite of the three, but this was still very good in my opinion.
I think The Sun and Her Flowere is still my favourite of the three, but this was still very good in my opinion.
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Defiantly not as good as the first imo. I loved the concepts but I didn't get to see a lot of them fleshed out as much as I would have liked. A lot of the short poems just read like Pinterest quotes and not poems. Don't get me wrong, I love Pinterest as much as the next person but the poems just didn't have the punch I was really hoping for.