Poetry Books You Need to Read

Milk and Honey

This is probably the most popular poetry book currently and it’s obvious why. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

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If you love milk and honey you will love the rest of these …

Pillow Thoughts

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.

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Eighteen Years

Eighteen Years is a collection of 220+ poems. Madisen Kuhn writes honestly and personally about the thoughts and feelings that come with finding your way.Eighteen Years is here to tell you that you are not alone. It is meant to be curled up with at night, accompanied by a cup of tea. It’s a hug in book-form. It is there to comfort you when fuzzy socks and ice cream just aren’t enough. It will inspire you to pick up a pen and write down thoughts of your own. It will help you to say the words that feel stuck in your chest.Take it on the train. Take it to the beach. Keep it on your nightstand. Keep it in your backpack. Read it at the park on benches beneath hundred-year-old trees. Read it while it’s raining. Read it when you’re happy. Read it when your heart aches.Eighteen Years is meant to be bent and worn, written in, tear-stained, and loved.This book is for you.

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7,300 Days

This book holds my story, my odyssey, through twenty years of life. it shares my story through the darkness and the light. get comfy, put your favorite sweats on, boil some water, and make tea. crack open the pages and feel with me. hold my art upon your lap and let it become a part of you. because this story is not just mine, it is yours, too. all my love, me. [themes found within this text: femininity, mental health: depression/anxiety, self-love, sexual abuse, love, trauma, etc. a coming of age]

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A Beautiful Composition of Broken 

r.h. Sin, bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words & a Shovel series, returns with a collection of poetry and prose meant to remind the wounded that they are, in fact, beautiful in a way society may never comprehend.

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Her

“Her” is a collection of poetry and prose about women, their strengths and beauty. Every woman should know the feelings of being loved and radiating those feelings back to her mate. This is a beautiful expression of heartfelt emotion using short, gratifying sentiments. If there is a lover in you, you will not get enough of “Her.”

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These books feature collections of poetry that tell stories similar and also very different. They share messages of encouragement and strength. 

So if you are looking for something to do, pick up one of these and enjoy.

****original book descriptions included from amazon 

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