4.5 StarsWow. Let me say I had low expectations going into this, but I was so wrong. Backstory: I'm not a fan of milk & honey. It's not a style I enjoy at all, and the entire book just felt too Tumblr and cheesy and simplistic. this blew me away. it's so different, fresh, and jaw-dropping.it’s interesting to see how her writing has grown and evolved. there are very few short poems (unlike m&h), which i was thankful for, because in m&h it seemed like she would just write sentences with skips in i...

*Thank you so much to Indigo for surprising me with a copy of this!*I never read Milk & Honey. It just seemed like such a fad thing, I had no interest in it. I tend to prefer traditional poetry. It's just my inner English major coming out I suppose! That being said, I enjoyed this more than I had expected. I didn't love the whole thing, but there were some poems that I really loved. The poetic style is quite simplistic and some quotes I felt like were reworded versions of things I've seen before...

those last two pages! what a beautiful way to walk into the new year💖

I don't know where to begin. Listen, as a brown woman of course I gave Rupi a try - that's what we brown girls do, we hold each other up and support each other like crazy because who else will? However, I think we should also be able to speak up when the work just doesn't cut it. Being critical is simply tough love - so don't be so quick to dismiss my negative feeback.First of all, half of this book are one-liners from her first book, and most of her longer pieces felt lazy and ill-thought out.

This review was brought to you by the best Real Housewives gifs on giphy.com.Let me start off by saying that I am not a fan of Rupi Kaur's milk and honey; HOWEVER, being the forgiving person that I am, I have decided to give her work a second chance.Warning: The gifs you are about to see are real reactions to the poems I just read.Alrighty, here we go:i live for that first second in the morningwhen i am still half-consciousi hear the hummingbirds outsideflirting with the flowersi hear the flower...

i amstill not a fan of peoplewho use random linebreaks in otherwisesimple phrases andthink it'ssomehowgroundbreakingI don't get it.I feel like a total ass for hating this book because she covers some very personal and traumatic topics, but to me it just reads like she's trying too hard to be profound because everyone lost their shit over her first book (which I didn't particularly like either, because it was basically a tumblr dashboard), so it was like she had to outdo herself. Like m&h, there

i hold the pagesthat give my hearta placeto call homewhile words ofsimple eleganceand subtle purityteach itto growand inspire itto love.- how i feel about this book↠ 4.5 stars

god must have kneaded you and ifrom the same doughrolled us out on the baking sheetmust have suddenly realizedhow unfair it wasto put that much magic in one personand sadly split that dough in twohow else is it thatwhen i look in the mirrori am looking at youwhen you breathemy own lungs fill with airthat we just met but wehave known each other our whole livesif we were not made as one to begin withour souls are mirrors - rupi kaurFind more of my books on Instagram

Beautiful... The range of emotions are all felt ... sadness, anger, loss, grief, pride, guilt, fear, nervousness, shame, joy, surprise, love ....These stories/ poems are heartfelt... rupi kaur is a lovely gift to the world. “for so long i was lost in a place where there was no sun, where there grew no flowers. but something i loved would emerge and bring me to life again”. I love “Milk and Honey”... and I equally love “the sun and her flowers”. The one complaint is that I wanted to buy this book...

Heart breaking yet empowering - a woman's journey of growth - (wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming) as she comes to terms with her past, present and future. As a man this book touched me because I never was aware of all the different ways we try to make women conform to 'our' idea of what they should be. If you have a friend trying to put their life back together after a break up this book will help them focus on the path they need to take.

Once, there were these poems,Which my heart cannot fully bear. Drivel — daft and dreary, Perchance, all I can do is but stare. Enjambments and aphorisms, likewise,Have filled this book, Hackneyed phrases — oh bloody hell,Seems like gobbledygook! Prithee, to thee, I say —Analyse her poems first from within, And compare its content From Lord Byron's discipline: "When we two partedIn silence and tears,Half broken-heartedTo sever for years,Pale grew thy cheek and cold,Colder thy kiss;Truly that hour...

“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.”I've never related to written words as much as reading Rupi Kaur's books.

[Edit: had to change my rating to 5 stars]Rupi Kaur does it once again. Her poetry is blooming. Her words hit home as they always do. I mean, there's a reason why there's a surge in poetry books being sold now. She's the reason. I love what she advocates in her poetry collections, what she stands for. How it is told in a format of stages, of growth. Following on from her previous collection (not that it is a sequel, but the format and themes are similar), the sun and her flowers is tackling the

Rupi, you have my heart ❤️ beautifully written and ohhh the art :‘)

i started 
to read this hoping to 
enjoy it more than Milk and Honey but 
instead i found it derivative
i also question whether 
random
 breaks in
 sentences and 
no punctuation is equal to 
poetry

Some parts of this, like the things she wishes she could have told her mother on her wedding day and insights on immigration were thought provoking, but much of this felt like thoughts I’ve read many times elsewhere. 
Here are three examples of that:

you do not just wake up and become the butterfly
...

"representation is vitalotherwise the butterflysurrounded by a group of mothsunable to see itselfwill keep trying to become the moth- representation""this place makes methe kind of exhausted that hasnothing to do with sleepand everything to do withthe people around me- introvert""think of those flowers you plantin the garden each yearthey will teach youthat people toomust wiltfallrootrisein order to bloom"

This long-awaited second collection of poetry by Rupi Kaur made waves; it was a ride brimming with of every kind of emotion imaginable. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is 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.Kaur's voice is as audacious and brave as ever. She nails to perfection the specific intimate details that made her writing so achi...

Wow!! That was intense, sad and good!! Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

It was really beautiful! Some of the poems SO stood out to me and I would love to read her first collection Milk and Honey now!! It's really empowering and beautiful about change and growing and healing.this place makes methe kind of exhausted that hasnothing to do with sleepand everything to do with the people around me- introvertrepresentationis vitualotherwise the butterflysurrounded by a group of mothsunable to see itselfwill keep trying to become a moth

I want to thank Jon(athan) Nakapalau for recommending this poetry collection to me. I have never read something similar before. The only part that I did not enjoy was the first one. In general, it was a nice experience, and I will probably read her other collection too.