Have you read Rupi Kaur’s masterful book of poems, milk and honey? It is amazing! Powerful and raw, yet also intimate and delicate. Towards the very end of her first book she offers this as advice to young poets:

your art
is not about how many people
like your work
your art
is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it’s about how honest
you are with yourself
and you
must never
trade honesty
for relatability

– Rupi Kaur, milk and honey

It is so good and so true. Poetry is not about anyone else. It’s not about trying to please someone or prove something to other people. It’s about you, your voice, your experience, your eyes, your perspective. If that resonates with others then great, but if it doesn’t that is OK. Don’t write for them. Write for you. Write because something in you, has to write.

Like I share with many of you when you comment, I am so glad you have enjoyed my poetry. Maybe something in it spoke to you or touched you, YES! But even if no one read or liked my work, I would still write.

Be inspired! #WritersWrite

If you want to get either of Rupi Kaur’s books they are available on Amazon:

Also check out her “sibling” book to “milk and honey” entitled, “the sun and her flowers” also available on Amazon: