this is the journey of
surviving through poetry
this is the blood sweat tears
of twenty-one years
this is my heart
in your hands
this is
the hurting
the loving
the breaking
the healing
- rupi kaur
Book Review
Over the years of reading, I have gone through different phases; sometimes, I really like poetry; other times, I really don't. Recently, I have been trying to get back into reading it as I love listening to Spoken Word poetry. So, since I have only heard good things about it, I picked up Milk and Honey. So worth it!
Very quick read, obviously. But the blatantly truthful poems coupled with the sketches made the perfect combination. It was incredible. Now, parents, if you are trying to get your adolescent into poetry, pick something else. There are some poems in here that contain situations that I wouldn't have been comfortable reading at a younger age. 16+ is what I would age this book for. But nevertheless, it was incredible.
I loved the style of her poems. I loved that everything is lowercase and punctuation isn't proper. I loved that she separated in the book into sections: the hurting, the loving, the breaking, the healing. I could really resonate with the fact that the poems weren't happy or hopeful. As a mediocre poet myself, all of my poems come from painful experiences, so I could really understand that.
Pages: 204 Rate: 5/5
Favorite Passage:
you tell me to quiet down cause
my opinions make me less beautiful
but i was not made with a fire in my belly
so i could be put out
i was not made with a lightness on my tongue
so i could be easy to swallow
i was made heavy
half blade and half silk
difficult to forget and not easy
for the mind to follow
