Milk and Honey

I LOVE RUPI KAUR .this poetry was amazing and had great emotion, but in a good way. I loved this book and it looks so nice in my shelf!!

By far one of my favorites! The transition you evoke is amazing; you feel the pain, joy, and love. Amazing!

I'm very late to the Rupi Kaur fan club, but I am here to stay!Kaur's poetry is raw and fresh, and it yanked me into its world on the first page. Milk and Honey is broken into four sections of life and love, and the reader travels through heartbreak to loving to living.The first section, hurting, explains how love and pain aren't always separate, and how not knowing how to separate them is what causes skewed perspectives of love beginning in childhood. The unfiltered voice looks at how parents can shape us in the worst ways before we ever see the right ways. The poem that stayed with me is that alcoholic parents don't exist, only parents who couldn't stay sober long enough, and the truth hit me like a brick wall. It's a perspective that needs to be pushed more because it's the only true one.Favorite hurting poems: pages 34 and 39.The second section is called loving, and it shows the first step after hurting, where we find passion and fireworks in our first relationship and think we've found everything we've missed. However, it's usually the calm before the storm. The passionate love tends to involve fighting and fiery make-up sessions, and often, we mistake that for forever love when really it's just a better love than anything else we've been shown, but it's still not a good love.Favorite loving poems: pages 76-77.The third section, breaking, is about realizing you can feel both love for someone and betrayal and it's accepting that both are valid. It's forgiving yourself for having conflicting emotions because those who love us can hurt us. Breaking teaches you what real love is so you know how to recognize it from others and in yourself.Favorite breaking poems: pages 90, 95, 104, 106, and 125.The final section is called healing and it's about balance and boundaries, knowing how much of yourself to give to others only after first giving to yourself. Healing is realizing your worth as a person and taking up space. Healing is knowing you are whole because you exist.Favorite healing poems: pages 154, 159, 165, 178, and 185.The sections flow effortlessly and Kaur's writing is unrelenting and dives into you like a tidal wave. Her writing is unfiltered and a breath of fresh air. I can't wait to read her other collections.

The book is very good and very meaningful!

Lately, I’ve been enjoying reading poetry so much! Luckily it’s also been keeping me on track with my Goodreads challenge, since they are so quick to read!Most poetry books are such amazing reads. The only reason I gave this one 4 stars was because it didn’t speak to me on a deeper level nor was it awe inducing. I did REALLY, REALLY enjoy this book though don’t get me wrong. This book has also been very popular lately. Everywhere you look it seems to be there, which is so awesome for the poetry genre! It needs more attention!This book is split into the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing. So I want to share some of my favorite sections or poems from each part!The Hurting“the therapist placesthe doll in front of youit is the size of girlsyour uncles like touchingpoint to where his hands wereyou point to the spotbetween its legs the onehe fingered out of youlike a confession”This is the first poem that broke my heart in this collection!“every time youtell your daughteryou yell at herout of loveyou teach her to confuseanger with kindnesswhich seems like a good ideatill she grows up totrust men who hurt hercause they look so muchlike you– to fathers with daughters““a daughter shouldnot have tobeg her fatherfor a relationship”The truth in these poems is astounding! I just had to share it.The Loving“sometimes thoughlove will hurt you butlove will never mean tolove will play no gamescause love knows lifehas been hard enough already”That’s the only poem that meant anything to me in this section, which I find kind of sad since its the loving section of the book.The Breaking“dont mistakesalt for sugarif he wants tobe with youhe willit’s that simple”“i didn’t leave becausei stopped loving youi left because the longeri stayed the lessi loved myself”“when you are brokenand he has left youdo not questionwhether you wereenoughthe problem wasyou were so enoughhe was not able to carry it”“you treat them like theyhave a heart like yoursbut not everyone can be assoft and as tenderyou don’t see theperson they areyou see the personthey have the potential to beyou give and give tillthey pull everything out of youand leave you empty”GIRL, YAS! Yes, Yes, Yes. Go figure this section was the most relatable to me. I’m not surprised, but everything in the section was so true. Favorite section of the book. Hands down. This section is the reason I will recommend this book to people!The Healing“who tricked youinto believinganother personwas meant to complete youwhen they most they can do is complement”Unfortunately that’s the only poem I highlighted in this section. This also doesn’t surprise me because I, myself, have not completely healed so how I am supposed to connect with anything in this section. Which has absolutely nothing to do with Rupi or her book. However, the one thing I have learned in my healing process is that my partner shouldn’t complete me, but complement me instead!This really is a great read and I really enjoyed reading it. I’m sure so many people can relate and connect with at least one section in this collection!

The way every word speaks to me... sometimes even makes me too emotional. Thank you for writing such an amazing book!

Bought for a friend I have this, excellent read

When you read the book a second time, this time comparing two poems that are right next to each other, a whole new world emerges.

Amazing book

milk and honey by Rupi Kaur | I had seen this book all over Bookstagram and BookTube before I decided to pick it up. Poetry is not a genre that I read that much of, so I decided to give it a chance with a book that was liked by so many people.This collection of poems is split into four chapters, the hurting, the loving, the breaking and the healing: and each one of these deals with a different sort of ache and has its own purpose.I found truly fascinating how certain poems, even those that were only two verses long, could create such huge impacts and responses in me; not all of them obviously, but most of them. Some of the poems in this collection capture the sweetness in those bitter moments, and the bitterness in those that are sweet; creating a wonderful dissonance in the feelings that those verses will arise in you. This collection is a journey of loss, love, abuse, trauma, healing and femininity through Kaur’s eyes and thoughts.

Was ist gute Poesie?Muss sie sich reimen? Muss sie rhythmisch sein? Muss sie überhaupt etwas müssen?Wenn Rupi Kaurs Kritiker sagen, „wahre Dichter“ würden sich im Grabe umdrehen, sollten sie vielleicht mal an den Grabstein von Herrn William Wordsworth klopfen, der sagte: Die Poesie hat ihren Ursprung in einem Gefühl, dessen man sich in Ruhe erinnert. Das hat Kaur getan. Ob dieses Gefühl nun beim Leser ankommt oder nicht, liegt vielleicht auch an ihnen, an mir, an dir.my heart woke me crying last nighthow can i help i beggedmy heart saidwrite the bookmilk and honey ist definitiv keine klassische, romantische Lyrik, es sind keine Sonette, es gibt keine Reime. Sie ist von schlichter Sprache, fast schon elementar. Gleichzeitig ist sie stark, eindringlich, eindrucksvoll. Die Gedichte sind meist kurz, Interpunktion ist nicht vorhanden. Die Zeilentrennung mag manch einem seltsam erscheinen, trägt meiner Meinung nach jedoch erheblich zum Fluss des Textes bei. Auf vielen Seiten finden sich ebenfalls Zeichnungen der Dichterin.milk and honey takes the reader througha journey of the most bitter moments in lifeand finds sweetness in thembecause there is sweetness everywhereif you are just willing to lookMit wenigen Worten und Zeilen schreibt die 23-Jährige über Liebe, Schmerz, Verlust, Hoffnung, Trauma, Sex, Missbrauch, Weiblichkeit. Es sind eigene Erfahrungen und solche von Frauen, die sie kennengelernt hat. Kaurs Schreibstil funktioniert wie ein Sog,wie ein Strudel, der seinen Leser völlig verschlingt und am Ende des Buches mit unzähligen Emotionen wieder ausspuckt.our kneespried openby cousinsand unclesand menour bodies touchedby all the wrong peoplethat even in a bed full of safetywe are afraidKaur hat ergreifende Gedichte geschrieben, wütende, hoffnungsvolle; Gedichte, in welchen sie die Stärken der Frauen anpreist; Gedichte, welche uns helfen, uns selbst zu lieben. Es ist ein Muss für all Diejenigen, die Freude an moderner, freier Poesie haben. Aber vor allen Dingen ist es ein Muss für junge Frauen, für Mädchen; es ist ein Ratgeber, ein Spiegel, eine Inspiration.You tell me to quiet down causemy opinions make me less beautifulbut i was not made with a fire in my bellyso i could be put outi was not made with a lightness on my tongueso i could be easy to swallowi was made heavyhalf blade and half silkdifficult to forget and not easyfor the mind to followIch habe wirklich versucht, mir diese knapp 200 Seiten aufzusparen, aber ich konnte einfach nicht anders: ich habe es inhaliert. Natürlich ist nicht jedes einzelne Gedicht bahnbrechend gut, aber fast jedes traf eine andere Stelle in meinem Herzen und in meiner Seele. Mein Buch ist voll mit orangefarbenen Post-Its, die meine neuen Lieblingsgedichte markieren. Es sind mindestens zehn. Selten hat mich Lyrik so zum Lächeln gebracht wie Kaurs, sie zeigt uns, dass das Leben, egal wie schrecklich es sein mag, doch eine unglaubliche Schönheit und Kraft besitzt.The worldgives youso much painand here you aremaking gold out of itKaurs eigenwillige, moderne Poesie über Schmerz, Trauer, Liebe und Hoffnung hat mich völlig in ihren Bann gezogen. Sie hat vielleicht nicht das Rad neu erfunden, ist keine neue Sylvia Plath, aber sie hat sich mit milk and honey als junge talentierte Stimme am Lyrikhimmel etabliert. Müsste ich fünf Werke empfehlen, die jede junge Frau gelesen haben sollte, wäre dieses hier dabei. Dürfte ich nur eines nennen, vielleicht auch. Für mich gehört milk and honey in jedes Bücherregal, auf jeden Nachttisch, in jede Handtasche.Wer sich ein genaueres Bild von Rupi Kaurs Gedichten machen möchte, findet auf ihrem Instagram-Account ziemlich viele aus ihrem aktuellen Buch. Ich kann allerdings nur empfehlen, es dann doch noch zu kaufen, da einmal lesen wahrscheinlich nicht genug sein wird.

The poem is so beautifully written and illustrated. The lines are so visceral and provocative. It makes you feel things like it should. It is a must read and needs to be widely read. And the poetic structure goes against the hegemony of poetry which I appreciate in literature.

Great book!