Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey

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the apology never comes when it is wanted

— when you ask if we can still be friends

someone explain that. how even when the love leaves. it doesn’t leave. how even when i am so past you. i am so helplessly brought back to you.

you were wrong for coming back and thinking

i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like

the good thing about feeling in extremes is

i was tired of allowing you to make me feel

you were so enough he was not able to carry it

the woman who comes after me will be a bootleg version of who i am. 

she will try and write poems for you to erase the ones i’ve left memorized on your lips 

but her lines could never punch you in the stomach the way mine did. 

she will then try to make love to your body. but she will never lick, caress, or suck like me. 

she will be a sad replacement of the woman you let slip. 

nothing she does will excite you and this will break her. 

when she is tired of falling apart for a man that doesn’t give back what he takes 

she will recognize me in your eyelids staring at her with pity and it’ll hit her.

how can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again.

the type of person who gives exactly what i need

evie coxon

i deserve financial compensation for being made to read this in my senior literary capstone

Clara Gauthier

Megan Parrott

I was especially fond of the last section, “the healing,” on body positivity. The whole collection is worth reading a few times though.

haewon

More tumbler post than poetry, It had way too long paragraphs in a few pages

Tsamarah

It was not ALL bad, but it was not ALL good either. Few bookmarks here and there but nothing really stays.

anna

I was expecting so much more... I liked a few of the poems, mostly the ones I already know and I appreciate the honesty of the author in some of them but really I am a bit disappointed. People always hype up this book so much and I really didn't enjoy it that much.

Relatable in every way is an understatement. Her words, pain, and deep connection for others and herself will forever make this my go-to book. Each piece takes you through the human experience of loving and losing and speaks to such profound feelings. Needless to say, I will always be a Rupi Kaur fan. 

Julia

Vicky  Nuñez 

The power of words is undeniable. And Rupi Kaur shows that in Milk and Honey. 
I don't think a single woman can't relate to at least one of her poems. They are hearbreaking and relatable and a book about the silent female struggle. Loved it!

Date Read:
 October 13, 2019 

 Actual Rating: 3.00 STARS 

First attempt at reading poetry and I would say I have a few lines that I came to like. A pretty good first try for this kind of read. Maybe I'll be trying to read more poetry in the future.

Christine Frisbie

More of a 3.5 stars. I really enjoyed the messages that came across to me on my first read through of this book, but I didn't feel like it really enthralled me as much as I had anticipated. This was probably because of the immense hype that has surrounded it and the fact that I walked in with fairly high expectations. However, I do think that it's quite topical and the topics it broaches are very important and should be discussed, and that to the right individual many of the messages will stick for years to come.

chloe rae

Damn. This was SO GOOD. It was sweet and sexy and raw and just gorgeously written. This book is split into four sections and I have to say that the first section didn't really grasp me. It wasn't until I started the second section that I was completely intrigued by her words. From there I had to keep stopping to take a moment to let her words sink in. Some of the poems were so profound I simply had to take a pause. Stunning words.
I'm fairly new to the poetry world but I can't wait to see where all I go from here. I'm already planning on going back through this book today to bookmark specifics that I can find later on. I'm excited to continue on in this genre!

Catarina Lopes 

Annika Arguemore

Not my type of poetry, but I can see how this could be cathartic for some people.

Julia Moran 

Nah just nah, for the most part this isn't poetry AT ALL but shower thoughts, don't try to sell it as poetry. Don't get me wrong there are "poems" that I liked a lot, but the majority of it was pretty bad. I think Rupi has a lot of potential and I praise her for sharing such personal things but she just has to learn to write actual poetry or not target it as such.

Kritika Narula

azliana aziz

certainly overrated. there's a few poems / lines?? that i like but the repetitive nature of her writing really did not go well with me. some of the poems basically were just an upgrade/downgrade version of another and they just failed to add any meaningful quality to them. 
kaur have potential. i mean i like her ideas but the execution here was pretty much subpar.

Amazing.

Some parts made me teary eyed. Some poems made my heart ache. Some just ~meh~. But the messages are very powerful especially to the women. I feel like all women should read this.

Lauren

The artwork is absolutely beautiful. I loved this.

Selkie

This entire book.

It resonated with my very soul, touched something fragile and delicate in my heart. It felt like hearing my thoughts, looking into a mirror.
I shed tears but I was comforted at the same time. I will forever be grateful that I decided to pick this book up by curiosity, and that ended up being my most treasured book.

Melissa Palmer

Book #76 Read in 2017
milk and honey by rupi kaur

This is a book of poetry that tackles tough issues such as sex, abuse and feminism. This book is garnering a lot of attention online and among my students. The risqué drawings will definitely get the reader's attention. I borrowed this book from one of my students.

I'm not the biggest poetry fan to be honest, so reading this was a relief to be able to understand on the face of it, rather than having to read and keep reading until I understand.

I did read it in one sitting, and I think everyone would be able to do so as well. 

I think the reason it's rated so low is, I don't relate to alot of this book, luckily. I can't really say i've been in senarios which relate to the main points of this book, but I think if you're someone who's been taken advantage of, who just feels kind of numb to love or anything along those lines, it would definatly hit hard.

Some quotes did stick out to me, and I interperated many of them in my own sort of way, changing the relationship focus to a friendship focus. 

I did also skip poems which Ifound didn't really relate to me in any way, and any poems which were relatively suggestive, only because they didn't seem like something I really want to read.

This is just the start of my poetry journey, so it's interesting to see where i'll go from here.

surtified™

I'm not the biggest poetry fan to be honest, so reading this was a relief to be able to understand on the face of it, rather than having to read and keep reading until I understand.

I did read it in one sitting, and I think everyone would be able to do so as well. 

I think the reason it's rated so low is, I don't relate to alot of this book, luckily. I can't really say i've been in senarios which relate to the main points of this book, but I think if you're someone who's been taken advantage of, who just feels kind of numb to love or anything along those lines, it would definatly hit hard.

Some quotes did stick out to me, and I interperated many of them in my own sort of way, changing the relationship focus to a friendship focus. 

I did also skip poems which Ifound didn't really relate to me in any way, and any poems which were relatively suggestive, only because they didn't seem like something I really want to read.

This is just the start of my poetry journey, so it's interesting to see where i'll go from here.

Libertad Aguilar

I loved this book. I kept highlighting my favorite parts in the poems. It’s a must for ANY woman/young lady/girl in my opinion

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