Milk and Honey

Author: Rupi Kaur

Rupi Kaur has brought us a new genre of poetry. There are a few contemporary poets like her and they are referred to as Instapoet — a reference to the fact that they post their short pithy poems on social medium like Instagram.

I have very limited experience in free-verse poetry and am not even sure I could recognize it if isn’t for the formatting of left aligned lines. However, I have to say that Rupi strikes an emotional chord with her poetry. It comes across very authentic. I couldn’t help but feel that it was her personal struggle as an impressionable young woman growing up in Canada. Through her verse, I experienced the joy of falling in love and then the pain of a breakup. Rupi ends by emphasizing the virtue of healing, saying “you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first”.