Rupi Kaur

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom

The Sun and Her Flowers

A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.

nanafark

you have to get to the root  of the wound

what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn

she’s already had everything she needs within herself

it’s the world that convinced her she did not

if you continue to starve yourself of love 

you’ll only meet people who’ll starve you too

sister how do i love myself enough to know 

your accomplishments are not my failures 

— we are not each other’s competition

it was when i stopped searching for home within others

and lifted the foundations of home within myself

i found there were no roots more intimate

— i refuse to do a disservice to my life

how naive to think healing was that easy 

— i am both the poison and the antidote

i will not subject myself to their ideology 

i am not a mannequin in the window of your favorite shop 

you can’t dress me up or throw me out when i am worn 

you do not just wake up and become the butterfly

— the person i fell in love with was a mirage

when you aren’t doing anything about it 

Amazing how Rupi Kaur effectively expresses so many feelings in few selective words.

Adwait Kulkarni

elinabel hidalgo 

it was a pretty decent ride. The last pages though, those were where it really started to shine. It's like the author saved the best for last or something. So, yeah, good enough but not quite hype-worthy, you feel me?

Molly M

Julia

chloe rae

*3.5
For some reason, I didn’t like this collection as much as I did the first. There were some poems that absolutely took my breath away, but also some that seemed mediocre. Still love Rupi though; I love her spirit and how she supports women. And I loved this but the first still takes the cake for me!

Deepika Ramesh

Reading Rupi Kaur's 'The Sun and Her Flowers' was like reading a friend's forwarded message on Whatsapp. It felt intimate but shallow. My opinion is unpopular this time; although I enjoyed a couple of poems, shared it with my family and friends, I couldn't stop rolling my eyes quite a few times. I admit that I told myself often, "Gosh. This sounds like my life." Perhaps, that's when I also told myself that I had been abysmally melodramatic, cliched, and impressionable too.

Is Rupi Kaur really writing poems? Is she really making non-poetry lovers fall in love with 'poems'? I don't know. Those questions make me wonder what a 'real poem' is. The run-on sentences, complete omission of punctuation rules, and the threadbare themes almost made me swear to not consume poems like these anymore. However, I can't say well. At the cost of sounding pretentious, I admit that I had problems with Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'. I don't quite agree with Rupi Kaur's too. Maybe, I must take a break from poetry for a while until the right one chooses to reach me.

Catarina Lopes 

I actually
Don't
Really understand
This type of
Poetry

Ryan 

quianna

keyzia

so cringe and unoriginal for the most part honestly..

Selkie

Another wonderful discovery for me.

While I did not fall as deeply in love with "The Sun and Her Flowers", as I did with "Milk and Honey", it still felt like my soul and heart found themselves in those words and pages, and I felt healed the more I dived into it.

Melissa Palmer

Book #80 Read in 2017
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

Another book borrowed from one of my students, this book of poetry is again a young woman's emotional journey. I liked this one better than the author's previous work. I felt the voice was that of a stronger female than in the first book and there were less naughty drawings (which I felt were a bit overdue for shock value in the first one) in this book.

Amena Elkayal

SOME AMAZING UNFORGETTABLE QUOTES: 

" they leave
and act like it never happened
they come back
and act like they never left
- ghosts"

"why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it"

" and the new day came
the show must go on said the sun life does not stop for anybody it drags you by
the legs
whether you want to move forward or not that is the gift
life will force you to forget how you long for them your skin will shed till there
is not a single part of you left they’ve touched your eyes finally just your eyes
not the eyes which held them you will make it to the end of what is only the
beginning go on
open the door to the rest of it - time"

"i notice everything i do not have
and decide it is beautiful"

"yesterday
when i woke up
the sun fell to the ground and rolled away
flowers beheaded themselves
all that’s left alive here is me
and i barely feel like living
- depression is a shadow living inside me"

"a lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves
- responsibility"

"they did not tell me it would hurt like this no one warned me
about the heartbreak we experience with friends where are the albums i thought
there were no songs sung for it i could not find the ballads or read the books
dedicated to writing the grief we fall into when friends leave it is the type of
heartache that does not hit you like a tsunami it is a slow cancer the kind that
does not show up for months has no visible signs is an ache here"

"i hear a thousand kind words about me
and it makes no difference
yet i hear one insult
and all confidence shatters
- focusing on the negative"

"when snow falls
i long for grass
when grass grows
i walk all over it
when leaves change color
i beg for flowers
when flowers bloom
i pick them
- unappreciative"

"this place makes me
the kind of exhausted that has
nothing to do with sleep
and everything to do with
the people around me
- introvert"

"like the rainbow
after the rain
joy will reveal itself
after sorrow"

"yes
it is possible
to hate and love someone
at the same time
i do it to myself
every day"

"what is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives"

"this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloom"

"borders
are man-made
they only divide us physically
don’t let them make us
turn on each other
- we are not enemies"

"my mother sacrificed her dreams
so i could dream"

"a
man
who cries
- a gift"

"what good am i
if i do not fill the plates
of the ones who fed me
but fill the plates of strangers
- family"

"their concept of beauty
is manufactured
i am not
- human"

sophia

becky oh

when death
takes my hand
i will hold you with the other
and promise to find you
in every lifetime

-rupi kaur

This book was so beautiful and the poems were just, heartbreaking. There were quite a lot of topics inside The Sun and Her Flowers but somehow, everything flowed nicely. 

A lovely read 💖

Definitely will read this again. This is one of the first poetry books I have read. ♡

This was a really fast read and I think the wording is truly beautiful. There were some poems that helped me heal and I really appreciate that. 

Madyson Payne

I really love Rupi Kaur’s poems! They open the mind and give you such an energetic and pure happiness to be a woman. Even when there are some rather darker poems which have severe theme's. I feel energetic after this read and think more gentle and greatly about my female power of mind. 

Ann-Sophie

Cat Josephson

This was a pretty short read - and I'm glad I read it, but I don't think I could ever read it again.

Sofia Nunes

“we have been dying
since we got here
and forgot to enjoy the view

- live fully”


Immensely powerful.

Jeannette Ordas

I don't think this is a 3 star book - 2.5 really, lots of break up poetry and simple line drawings, but I did like the poems about her family. A quick, light poetry read.

Amelia 

Stunning Poetry and Beautiful Illustrations.

Arturo Hernández

It’s amazing how can someone pour their life in the pages of a book. At one point, reading “The sun and her flowers” almost feels like you’re invading the life of the author. It’s a pretty good read once again (a little bit happier than “Milk and honey” though).

Sintia

** spoiler alert **
           I like the fact that Rupi Kaur writes poems about everything and I like the meaning behind them. I liked the ones where she talked about her mother and some others.
BUT
I had a feeling that I was reading just beautiful sentences and some of them for me weren't really poems. What can I say, it's modern poetry. You like it or you don't.

The Sun and Her Flowers

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