Score: 4/5 Bookmarks

I’ve had a yearning to read more poetry lately, and I remembered a friend had sent me a copy of Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur which had been sitting on my shelf, neglected. I sat down last night intending to just dip into it (pun intended) but ended up devouring the entire thing. Once I had read one poem I found I just couldn’t stop!

This collection of poems is split into four chapters, each dealing with a different pain point. There are poems about loss, trauma, abuse, healing, love and femininity and a couple of my favorites are:

nothing is safer

than the sound of you

reading out loud to me

- the perfect date

how you love yourself is

how you teach others

to love you

you

are your own

soul mate

your art

is not about how many people

like your work

your art

is about

if your heart likes your work

if your soul likes your work

it’s about how honest

you are with yourself

and you

must never

trade honesty

for relatability

- to all you young poets

The book also contains lovely little illustrations on many of the pages. So it's not just a feast of words.

This is definitely worth reading…again, and again.