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Your Soul is a River by Nikita Gill
3.0

Let me start by saying that these poems are so visually pleasing. Beautiful to read/look-at.

The first part, The Cosmos, was my favourite. I have a thing for stars. The night sky. Constellations. The fact that we are made of stardust. I love that so much and finding those themes in poetry was wonderful, even though some ideas I found a little repetitive.
The other parts didn't grab me as much. The poems were nice, but I couldn't find myself in many of them (I blame my lack of relationship history).
Not until the last part, Heal, anyway. That one was beautiful again.
But the whole book is a bundle of positivity and fight for self love. And that is great.

That is what I have come to understand about poetry (I'm still new to this genre).
It's all very relative. Each person finds themselves in different poems, we are touched in different ways because we have different experiences and so no poem is wrong or right, it is how it personally makes you feel that counts.
Just because this book of poetry didn't reflect my soul for the most part, it doesn't mean it won't be the mirror you are looking for.