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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
dark
reflective
sad
"forgive me please, famine back home."
It took me eight months to get through this because there were too many lines and entire poems that genuinely made me burst into tears. Tears for my own hooyo, for her hooyo, for myself. Like, Miss Shire really said it's fun for the whole family because after reading Lullaby For Father, I picked up the phone to contact my dad so he could hear it and maybe even cry for himself too.
Also, shoutout to the years I spent in Somalia myself; the amount of references and subtleties that wouldn't resonate with me otherwise is finally making me grateful for it.
It took me eight months to get through this because there were too many lines and entire poems that genuinely made me burst into tears. Tears for my own hooyo, for her hooyo, for myself. Like, Miss Shire really said it's fun for the whole family because after reading Lullaby For Father, I picked up the phone to contact my dad so he could hear it and maybe even cry for himself too.
Also, shoutout to the years I spent in Somalia myself; the amount of references and subtleties that wouldn't resonate with me otherwise is finally making me grateful for it.
emotional
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
‘I’ll rewrite this whole life and this time there’ll be so much love,
you won’t be able to see beyond it’
- Warsan Shire, Backwards
you won’t be able to see beyond it’
- Warsan Shire, Backwards
challenging
emotional
reflective
emotional
reflective
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
dark
reflective
fast-paced
I’ve always read certain poems or snippets but this is my first time reading one of her entire collections. Some standouts include Backwards, Bless the real housewife and Bless the gun tossed into a river.
“’l’ll rewrite this whole life and this time, there’ll be so much love you won’t be able to see beyond it.”
“’l’ll rewrite this whole life and this time, there’ll be so much love you won’t be able to see beyond it.”
What could I say that hasn't been said better? Incredible poetry, and I highly recommend.