Thoughts on this book? I personally haven't read it but from what I can tell it's cheesy and trite...

Thoughts on this book? I personally haven't read it but from what I can tell it's cheesy and trite. Seems to appeal to young women because it's over sensitive and sentimental without having any real depth. But that is my opinion as someone who has not actually read the book.

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yeh its complete shite, tumblr 'inspiration' in verse form, whats the point of this thread? if its trolling its too subtle for me to detect

>But that is my opinion as someone who has not actually read the book.
And you thought the need to share it because we didn't have at least 10 threads on this in the last 7 days? Why don't you fuck yourself instead of posting? Why did a thread have to die for this?

a book built completely on the lie that we're all special and beautiful. It's basically the opposite of philosophy and just tells people what they want to hear instead of what's true creating a sort of "Jonah syndrome"

The only reason it's popular is because it appeals to girls with low self esteem on an emotional level. It's actually kind of interesting, it just goes to show that the most popular things are those that lie to us considering how Milk and Honey is like number 5 on book depository while shit that people find hard to accept but filled with truth like Being and Nothingness for example aren't even on the list but I'm sure that's just because it's harder to read

Sometimes, less fluent readers still have genuine discourse to offer on here, user
Sometimes

Can't say I've read it either, I'm in the same boat as OP as far as surface level preception has come across

Its Post-Modernism gone wrong ; its only going to get worse from here.

You have to get worse.. before you get better..

bonjour

Je vais caca dans une bouche de cochon
True. The most we can do is shape collective creative output. Don't stop creating.

I don't know what you said, I just recognize how you use punctuation, faggot.

Rupi confirmed for Veeky Forums poster.

Rupi, leave, no one likes your book.

Holy shit... I'd never seen her recite her works before. She's awful.

youtube.com/watch?v=rVo4q6xsWNc

is the swaying motion really necessary?

To find is the same as to locate, but with different letters.

What's true is both not false but also true.

We live our lives from start to finish, and halfway through we're left with half of it.

If you don't get on your way, you won't arrive.

If you're here, that means you're not somewhere else.

A roof over your head usually means there's floor under your feet. If there's not, you'll be cold in the winter.

Sleepless nights don't bother those who sleep in the day.

Few people can do what most cannot.

If you're vigilant, you're bad at being unobservant.

probably one of the best works of poetry in the last 600 years. i'm crossing my fingers for a rupi nobel prize this year... she's a groundbreaking genius!

reduce your mindless bullshit to something with weight, you brainlet.

Those with no sense of humor don't laugh often.

An ad hominem is not an advertisement but hurts the same.

i don't wish to hurt

No one wants to
Feel hurt
Those who do
Are masochists

rupi, why?

Do not question
What you know
Or it's merely
Rhetorical

I do
What I do
Because I feel

I'll dump here some stuff, she wrote I got off her Instagram so you can judge for yourself

Veeky Forums needs a boogeyman to complain about just like /pol/. Its pretty mediocre stuff but its not as terrible as Veeky Forums pretends it is.

ernest cline is still worse

...

I live in a nearby neighborhood as her. How do I go about picking her up?

wut

How did 171,750 people look at this and think "yup, this is literary gold". It's literally a normal sentence arbitrarily divided into four parts.

Her instagram
A bowl of fruits
He chose not to
Eat

Imposters lack
What the real one
Sees
Through the dark

Jealousy is bitter
So I've learned
By playing 80s games
48 hours a day

Am I an imitator
Or
Am I authentic
Does it matter
Maybe
We are all one
tragically convinced
that we are divided

do not pick
up
what you would otherwise
put down

We cannot be
One
Because we are two
And separate
To say we are
Means bad grades
In math
I heard the teacher say

holy fuck rupi is among us

An apple a day
keeps the doctor
away

Three Rupis
Worth
A thousand rubles
When the west
Sanctions the
Rest

I don't wanna feel this pain again
I said
You are going to
The jew said

you are all plebs, this kind of poetry is the shit

go back to pretending to read Pynchon and Joyce

>implying Veeky Forums doesn't love rupi

for fucks sake she's a goddamn trending topic here

forgetting the context, i somehow find this one attractive.

The one says
Pleb
Is the plebbest of them
All

Farty man and buck
Teeth
Are not bad
So inherently
Good
Same as
Norwegian wood

Too many rhymes
But it's fine
Listening to Kanye
Puts me on the line
To write
And ignore the pain
Of life

Ive always been drawn to this one. I don't know why.

It is common
Sense
In four lines
On white paper
And printed letters
Produce
Nice pictures

Her swaying in suddenly makes sense,
when you
realize her poems
are just regular
sentences with
really small margins

its the most mentioned book of poetry in Veeky Forums's history

Flip through it at my local bookstore every now and then just to feed my loathing of this day and age. Won't ever buy it though.

In my opinion it is successful because:
- author is a shitskin female and that ranks highly on the leftist ladder of oppressed minorities. Plus she is known for doing "empowering" photos like showing her period blood.

- it is easily digestible and easily forgotten just like scrolling on instagram or tumblr (which her target audience does). Hell, she is even marketed as an instapoet.

- in the texts she writes, she is never at fault. If her heart is broken it's the guys fault. If he leaves her, he is an idiot because she is so great. It feeds the narcissistic millennial females egos as they page through empty words, thinking "yasss queen slaaaayyy".

For good reason. How many of you have actually sat out on a park bench with a latte and actually read it? It invokes a warmness into the soul.

There is nothing wrong with being an instagram poet. How would that effect the work in any way?

I wanted to write
Fiction
But I broke Word
No fix came from IT
Men
So it is poetry
And bad
Customer service

At least we are somewhat over John Green now

yeah i agree. i'm not defending the quality of her """work""", i actually read about half of m&h and it's laughable. as you said, i just find verse patterns and serif fonts intrinsically attractive.

you guys just dont 'get' it

Can you recommend me some instapoets who are actually good? I think it's a valid platform for poetry, but what I've seen so far is either clichè, trash, or both.

Forgot to Change
Username
I will continue
To converse in
Shoddily written
Free
Verse

r u a trikster?

I just meant that its a platform like any other and doesn't effect the actual writing. I don't actually know any

It attracts and appeals to the Rupi Kaurs of the world. Instapoets. It's a revolting notion.

It may be
Just a platform
But the stage gazes
Towards the audience
And the crowd shines back

>the rupi kaurs of the world
what do you mean

From a woman's vagina
Comes many great things
Us among them

But then the world
In all its ways
Takes us
And makes us behave

It calls us girls
It calls us brown
It calls us pretentious
It calls us melodramatic

That is not how we are made
But how we are weighed

Rupi is a great poet, fuck off

>qt coffeehouse girl meme
>diversity meme
>instagram aesthetics meme
>getting banged by chads and living off credit cards qualifies as a "journey" meme
>easy to read
>exactly the kind of content magazines and blogs want to push

it would be more baffling if this DIDN'T print money. any publisher that turned this down burns dollars as a hobby

Strange for a noted coalburner to be lurking on Veeky Forums. But you know, stranger things have happened.

Rupi is the new Rumi

If he does not accept
You for your
Natural state
Like farting in your sleep
Leave him be
Pass gas or pass me by
And don't ever say
Excuse you again

LITERALLY WHAT THE F

UCK IS THIS S

Is Rupi, dareisayit, one of us?

HIT???

don't worry girls she's fighting the system from the inside!

I read the whole thing in like two hours because my gf at the time was all about it.

It fucking sucks. It is garbage. It's written by some pajeet woman in her 20's from Ontario. It is supposedly full of "wisdom," but, then again, the average woman can't handle actual philosophy so little 3 line poems about how the bitter taste of coffee reminds her of how hurtful men can be comes off as profound kek.

Pick it up, I suppose, if you want a good laugh. There may be a diamond in there that has a modicum of wisdom lingering around... but, don't expect much. I, of course, said to my gf at the time that I absolutely loved it just so she would keep sucking my dick.

Capitalist millennial pig fuck off

Not sure if sarcasm or not... but I'd wager most millennials are left-libertarian or socialist types.

chad's ball odor
unwashed
the smell of
my parent's kitchen
both things
trapped me in walls

>Sleepless nights don't bother those who sleep in the day.
This one actually made me feel something

>tfw you unironically like this

@ytpoet17

Thom Young is a hardscrabble Texan poet that writes about drinking whisky, punching women, and isn't afraid to make fun of the instapoets.

He's like if Bukowski and Hemingway fucked and had a kid with Wilde's wit.

>meme

Williamsburg?

would have had me sold that this was real if you didn't use the exclamation mark at the end

I like this, but it's basically a bunch of marginally witty aphorisms.

I'm checking him out and he seems Rupi tier.

Is this some kind of ironic satire of instapoets?

I can never tell which one of these is fake they are all so bad

i wish i could
taste rupi's
milk and honey

How the fuck is this real

What's the point in breaking up the sentences into lines like that? It's extremely jarring and doesn't seem to have any rhythm to it at all

...

...

that's not anything like rupi.

Kek.

Its literally "no classic author no matter how brilliant they, their writing, or their influence was, can trump my personal life"

Its the whole writing-as-a-confessional crowd who no longer use it as an art-form but just as a way of talking about themselves egoistically for identity politics.

Is this for real?

The poem is much longer
youtu.be/rVo4q6xsWNc?t=1m
May as well just say "father" though lmao

It's a joke-poem, user.

What's the joke then?

obvs fake.

never

Check the descriptions under the pictures.

>i've got your rosy fingered something
Kek that's way better than anything she actually wrote