Poems Inspired by Rupi Kaur
#RupiKaur
Poems inspired by the Indian-born Canadian writer, performer and poet Rupi Kaur. Here you'll find poetry using the style, themes or characters found in poems by Rupi Kaur. Along with poems about Kaur herself, including praise, criticism and tributes.
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(Rupi Kaur-inspired visual poem)
#butterfly
#nature
#metaphor #RupiKaur
#metaphor #RupiKaur
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absence of logic and presence of pain
( after Rupi Kaur )
#spiritual
#meditation
#philosophical
#wisdom
#RupiKaur
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Open your heart (to do list: after the breakup)
( after Rupi Kaur )
Are you a true friend to a friend, my friend.
Have you a gift you’d take all the way there?
It will travel in the small of your hand
Where he had placed it from the north star’s shine.
In the cold of night, and the heat of day,
For a hundred miles, for five hundred miles,
For a thousand miles, for two thousand miles
To keep its clear promise all the way there?
When you arrive at last what will you say,
When you arrive at last what will you do?
Don’t say too much before they...
Are you a true friend to a friend, my friend.
Have you a gift you’d take all the way there?
It will travel in the small of your hand
Where he had placed it from the north star’s shine.
In the cold of night, and the heat of day,
For a hundred miles, for five hundred miles,
For a thousand miles, for two thousand miles
To keep its clear promise all the way there?
When you arrive at last what will you say,
When you arrive at last what will you do?
Don’t say too much before they...
#forgiveness
#breakup
#MovingOn
#healing
#RupiKaur
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Alone # Rupi Kaur
alone is just a singular
and loneliness is so much more
of gone forlorne so much undone
a - holding- lost father, lover, son,
the foetis of a childhood
left with pieces of my M
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n
d
and loneliness is so much more
of gone forlorne so much undone
a - holding- lost father, lover, son,
the foetis of a childhood
left with pieces of my M
i
n
d
#loneliness
#MentalHealth
#RupiKaur
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[ CC ] waterworld
thing about religion? is
just a smidgeon of faith
will take you far through
deserts as a dewdrop does
the flower or a mud puddle
for a camel couple because
having nothing to believe in?
it's the worst thing to believe in -
a not so kind kind of insanity---
such deluge of delusion requiring
a massive ark type of undertaking
as you try to save yourself from
this universe out to drown you
just a smidgeon of faith
will take you far through
deserts as a dewdrop does
the flower or a mud puddle
for a camel couple because
having nothing to believe in?
it's the worst thing to believe in -
a not so kind kind of insanity---
such deluge of delusion requiring
a massive ark type of undertaking
as you try to save yourself from
this universe out to drown you
#atheism
#religion
#RupiKaur
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Oceans
Oceans internally collide
As storms throw froth
Spray roars with rage
The waves crash into you
Then run away from you
Constant tidal movement
Led in part by the moon
This is how I experience you
I try to love you
Through your chaos
Through your typhoons
Of manic moods and mania
I want to love you
Like my fathers instructions
But your undertow
Is dragging me under
A passive aggressive
Drowning
I welcome your melancholia
The calm before your storms
Your calm sees ...
As storms throw froth
Spray roars with rage
The waves crash into you
Then run away from you
Constant tidal movement
Led in part by the moon
This is how I experience you
I try to love you
Through your chaos
Through your typhoons
Of manic moods and mania
I want to love you
Like my fathers instructions
But your undertow
Is dragging me under
A passive aggressive
Drowning
I welcome your melancholia
The calm before your storms
Your calm sees ...
#love
#frustration
#RupiKaur
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it is so full here in myself
( after Rupi Kaur )
you have never known a creature as myself
i grew from the soil
all else was born from my secrets
overflowing from my belly as wilderness
and from my long dark hair as rain
but also like a tiger
much preparation went into
this honeyed defiance
to take it seriously
yet my skin is rosewood and i have
cultured the sandalwood from myself
but that does not mean
i will be tamed
you have never known a creature as myself
i grew from the soil
all else was born from my secrets
overflowing from my belly as wilderness
and from my long dark hair as rain
but also like a tiger
much preparation went into
this honeyed defiance
to take it seriously
yet my skin is rosewood and i have
cultured the sandalwood from myself
but that does not mean
i will be tamed
#birth
#identity
#nature
#SelfDiscovery
#RupiKaur
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[ CC ] let's get biblical
you claim to be an athiest
but when you argue that
a real god would not be as
controlling, vindictive and cruel
as such portrayed in the holy bible -
i can only shake my head and
laugh
but when you argue that
a real god would not be as
controlling, vindictive and cruel
as such portrayed in the holy bible -
i can only shake my head and
laugh
#religion
#God
#Christian #RupiKaur
#Christian #RupiKaur
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The same
( after Rupi Kaur )
in my life as I grew less young
the joy in the anticipation
of breaking out on my own
was always good, as life was
to run like the wind as the wind
and be welcomed by Gran’ma
her gentle soul knew my restless spirit
and we often shared words
how much the same we’d grown
as closer I’d become and knew
I’d never have what she’d had
and she was winsome in her loss
how beautiful she was that way
the tears fell bitter on our
tongues
in my life as I grew less young
the joy in the anticipation
of breaking out on my own
was always good, as life was
to run like the wind as the wind
and be welcomed by Gran’ma
her gentle soul knew my restless spirit
and we often shared words
how much the same we’d grown
as closer I’d become and knew
I’d never have what she’d had
and she was winsome in her loss
how beautiful she was that way
the tears fell bitter on our
tongues
#family
#memories
#aging
#nonfiction
#RupiKaur
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[ CC ] a matter of perspective
the universe didn't forget; you
are always one day closer to
the life you truly want to live
so let it go and don't give
an inch because tomorrow? It
is one less day of putting up with this
shit
are always one day closer to
the life you truly want to live
so let it go and don't give
an inch because tomorrow? It
is one less day of putting up with this
shit
#RupiKaur
659 reads
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[ CC ] honest critique
we all make mistakes here and there
but when the poetry you share
still suffers from typos and misspells
your most glaring error in judgement
seems to be in the very least to me
believing your readers actually
care enough to point out such
and even though i was never a fan
i just thought it was worth a mention
but when the poetry you share
still suffers from typos and misspells
your most glaring error in judgement
seems to be in the very least to me
believing your readers actually
care enough to point out such
and even though i was never a fan
i just thought it was worth a mention
#WritingPoetry
#support
#reading #RupiKaur
#reading #RupiKaur
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Unforeseen Heartache
Nobody thought it would be this hard
Losing a friend or a lover, but then
You are thinking of them when a card
From them shows up once again.
The slow, trickling tears come back,
Not like a train that suddenly hits you
Or the onslaught of rain as the black
Sky swallows you. It slowly builds to
The point where you get subtle aches.
There are no words to describe it, not
Even on the radio. They are heartbreaks
You have no time to prepare for. A knot
And other symptoms appear, sometimes
Months later when you are clearing out ...
Losing a friend or a lover, but then
You are thinking of them when a card
From them shows up once again.
The slow, trickling tears come back,
Not like a train that suddenly hits you
Or the onslaught of rain as the black
Sky swallows you. It slowly builds to
The point where you get subtle aches.
There are no words to describe it, not
Even on the radio. They are heartbreaks
You have no time to prepare for. A knot
And other symptoms appear, sometimes
Months later when you are clearing out ...
#love
#heartbroken
#RupiKaur
553 reads
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