Name: The Sun and Her Flowers
ISBN: 9781449486792

Rupi Kaur

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

The Sun and Her Flowers

Leslie

nanafark

Emma Wolfe

Karin Volarić

Sara🌻

"what is it with you and sunflowers he asked 

that it what the sun does to those flowers

i tried to leave many times but as soon as i got away my lungs buckled under the pressure panting for air id return perhaps this is why i let you skin me to the bone something

was better than nothing having you touch me even if it was not kind

was better than not having your hands at all i could take the abuse i could not take the absence iknew i was beating a dead thing but did it matter if the thing was dead when at the very least

i hear a thousand kind words about me and it makes no difference yet i hear one insult and all confidence shatters

you do not just wake up and become the butterfly

no was a bad word in my home no was met with the lash erased from our vocabulary beaten out of our backs till we became well-behaved kids who obediently nodded yes to everything when he climbed on top of me every part of my body wanted to reject it but i couldn't say no to save my life when i tried to scream all that escaped me was silence i heard no pounding her fist on the roof of my mouth begging to let her out

but i had not put up the exit sign never built the emergency staircase there was no trapdoor for no to escape from i want to ask all the

parents and guardians a question what use was obedience then when there were hands that were not mine inside me

- how can i verbalize consent as an adult if i was never taught to as a child

parts of my body still ache from the first time they were touched

the way you speak of yourself the way you degrade yourself into smallness is abuse

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

he makes sure to look right at me as he places his electric fingers on my skin how does that feel he asks commanding my attention responding is out of the question iquiver with anticipation

excited and terrified for what's to come he smiles

knows this is what satisfaction looks like i am a switchboard he is the circuits my hips move with his-rhythmic

my voice isn't my own when i moan--it is music like fingers on a violin string

he sparks enough electricity within me to power a city when we finish i look right at him and tell him that was magic

i told the flowers what i'd do for you and they blossomed

you must have a honeycomb for a heart how else could a man be this sweet

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

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

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.

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.

From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. 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

Stef

I rarely read poetry book but this one really beautiful. Every part of this poetry have deep meaning about women in general and family. Really love this one.

The Sun and Her Flowers

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