It's been a while now since I wrote a blog post on here so I thought I'd come back and start with something that has become special to me since I last updated. During school and growing up I never really enjoyed reading or writing poetry, I think mostly because I didn't understand it or felt I couldn't relate to the words, but over the past few months I've had a real new-found love for poetry that I never had before.
I had bought a collection of poems a few years back from a self-publicised lady in LA called AnnaRose Kern after she had shared some pieces on her Instagram. That really was the first time I found myself relating to poetry and after finding the book again recently, I decided to buy Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, a collection that had been in my Amazon basket for literal years.
Milk and Honey has opened a whole new world to me and I'm so thankful that I'm now seeing poetry for the beauty that it is. I loved that Kaur had separate the collection into categories which makes it easy to go back and find whatever you need in the moment, and every category had something that spoke to me - even if my experience or interpretation was different to what Kaur had intended or felt.
So if you take one thing from this post, please try something new that you haven't before or have previously thought it wasn't for you - you might just be surprised! And while you're here, let me know what your favourite poetry pieces are and who I should be on the look out for next.
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