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The Best Of Rupi Kaur's 'Milk And Honey'

"this is the journey of surviving through poetry this is the blood sweat tears of twenty-one years this is my heart in your hands this is the hurting the loving the breaking the healing" -Rupi Kaur

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The Best Of Rupi Kaur's 'Milk And Honey'

I just purchased this book yesterday and I read it within an hour. milk and honey is by far the best poetry-based book I have ever read. After seeing Kaur's poems all over social media I began to fall in love with her words. Her book is divided into four different sections: the hurting, the loving, the breaking and the healing. Each section perfectly leads into the other, healing each heartbreak from chapter to chapter. This book was crafted for the heavy hearted, the lonely, the people who are seeking for peace.


the hurting

pg. 18

she was a rose

in the hands of those

who had no intention

of keeping her


pg. 21

if i knew what

safety looked like

i would have spent

less time falling into

arms that were not


pg. 25

you pinned

my legs to

the ground

with your feet

and demanded

i stand up


the loving

pg.45

when my mother was pregnant

with her second child i was four

i pointed at her swollen belly confused at how

my mother had gotten so big in such little time

my father scooped me in his tree trunk arms and

said the closest thing to god on this earth

is a woman's body it's where life comes from

and to have a grown man tell me something

so powerful at such a young age

changed me to see the entire universe

rested at my mother's feet


pg. 49

what am i to you he asks

i put my hands in his lap

and whisper you

are every hope

i've ever had

in human form


the breaking

pg. 81

i always

get myself

into this mess

i always let him

tell me i am beautiful

and half believe it

i always jump thinking

he will catch me

at the fall

i am hopelessly

a lover and

a dreamer and

that will be the

death of me


pg. 82

when my mother says i deserve better

i snap to your defense out of habit

he still loves me i shout

she looks at me with defeated eyes

the way a parent looks at their child

when they know this is the type of pain

they can't fix

and says

it means nothing to me if he loves you

if he can't do a single wretched thing about it


pg. 89

the next time you

have your coffee black

you'll taste the bitter

state he left you in

it will make you weep

but you'll never

stop drinking

you'd rather have the

darkest parts of him

than have nothing


pg. 94

it must hurt to know

i am your most

beautiful

regret


pg. 102

the thing

worth holding on to

would not have let go


pg. 106

you treat them like they

have a heart like yours

but not everyone can be as

soft and as tender

you don't see the

person they are

you see the person

they have the potential to be

you give and give till

they pull everything out of you

and leave you empty


pg. 107

i had to leave

i was tired of

allowing you to

make me feel

anything less

than whole


pg. 120

you were not wrong for leaving

you were wrong for coming back

and thinking

you could have me

when it was convenient

and leave when it was not


pg. 131

stay

i whispered

as you

shut the door behind you


pg. 133

he isn't coming back

whispered my head

he has to

sobbed my heart


pg. 143

the way they

leave

tells you

everything


the healing

pg. 153

loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself


pg. 157

perhaps the saddest of all

are those who live waiting

for someone they're not

sure exists

-7 billion people


pg. 171

our backs

tell stories

no books have

the spine to

carry

-women of color


pg. 174

losing you

was the becoming of myself


pg. 181

you look at me and cry

everything hurts

i hold you and whisper

but everything can heal


pg. 194

most importantly love

like it's the only thing you know how

at the end of the day all this

means nothing

this page

where you're sitting

your degree

your job

the money

nothing even matters

except the love and human connection

who you loved

and how deeply you loved them

how you touched the people around you

and how much you gave them





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