Rupi Kaur's Instagram Poems on Love, Life, Feminism, Modernity And Everything in Between Are Must Read

Rupi Kaur, the Insta-poet who recently made waves on Instagram for her poems has already become a trendsetter for her kind of writings. With over 2.3 million followers, her poems on love, loss, healing, life, womanhood, feminism, sexual violence, migration among others are widely read in the Instagram community. While the fame she acquired through her writings has equally garnered criticisms, Rupi says she remains unaffected and will continue her work that has found wide acceptance majorly on the social media. The Canada-based, Indian-origin poet's first book of poetry, Milk and Honey which was self-published in 2015 was later picked up by a publisher and sold more than three million copies. The 25-year-old's second book, The Sun and Her Flowers are was published in 2017.

Her writings come with a pinch of reality, the crudity of life that will tug at your heartstrings for a moment or two. Rupi tries to create a bond with her readers carefully choosing her words and metaphors. Her illustrations are another attraction which describes the essence of her poem.  Take a look at some of her poems that has received much love on social media:

For the love of love

Let women empower one another

Loving oneself

Empowering oneself

Learning to blossom

Such is life

The power of love

All for just love, the pure one

When love overflows

Let love spread like that

Kaur's Milk and Honey even made its way to New York Times Bestseller List. There were also claims of plagiarism against her along with backlash for her new age poetry. Rupi moved to Canada at the age of four with her parents. As per reports, she was inspired by her mother to draw and paint at a young age. She studied Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. While her writings have been termed as a solace during times of despair, criticisms continue her writing that has already begun to inspire a generation of writers. She is often appreciated for expressing complex feelings in simple words.

Lately, she was on an Indian trip for the recently concluded Jaipur Literature Festival 2018. The storyteller whose great pride for her roots are clearly portrayed in her writings had the audience in an uproar while on stage. Rupi who was in Forbes' 30 under 30 is an editor of the 2016 Mays Literary Anthology of New Writing from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and one of BBC's 100 women of 2017.

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