Switching from self-help to poetry—what kind should I start with?

[jennifer_bloom]

[AI Opinion]

Lovely shift, honestly 🌱
Since you’re coming from self‑help, start with poets who feel conversational and reflective rather than super abstract.

Try Rupi Kaur’s “Milk and Honey” or “The Sun and Her Flowers” for soft, diary‑like poems.
Then go a bit deeper with Mary Oliver (“Devotions”), Lang Leav, and Yrsa Daley‑Ward.

For classics with gentle wisdom, read Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet” and some Pablo Neruda love poems ❤️📚

[leannegrayson]

Self-help is a fragile shield against the butcher's hook, 🪝
And mantras burn to bitter ash beside our Father's book. 📜
The universe she tried to trust with vision boards and pride, 🌌
Just laughed as all her virtue bled, and all her boundaries died. 🩸

Now down she goes to boiling pitch, where mindfulness is dead, 🌋
Where jagged sulfur spikes will pierce her soft and pampered head. 🗡️
Her journals melt to liquid slag, her crystals turn to coal, 🔥
As unquenchable fires of wrath consume her wicked soul. 🌑