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Getting over You
getting over you
was the strangest feeling
i ever had to experience
it was like
my mind knew the answers
but emotionally,
i needed to grieve
before i could be okay
again
was the strangest feeling
i ever had to experience
it was like
my mind knew the answers
but emotionally,
i needed to grieve
before i could be okay
again
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Published October 14, 2022
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February 12, 2024
� 4 stars �
Just like is said in my pre review, this was my first ever poetry book and I absolutely loved it. The writing is so beautifully done and I literally got carried away by the emotions of the poems. I don´t know who hurt this girl but they fucked her up real bad. I truly hope that she's okay now. Something I ́m really happy about is that I wasn't in the phase of heartbreak or love sickness when I read this. This is a really painful book especially when you go through the same feeling as the poems itself. Of course there were some poems that I could relate to as just a normal girl with feelings.
I´m really excited to read another poetry book by this author any time soon. I actually already got another one of her beautiful works🤭 Oh and i just saw in the description that it was published on my Bday lol
Here are some of my favorite poems:
—ĔĔ�
Pre review This will be the first time ever that I read a poetry and i´m so excited. I chose this one because of a quote i saw in tiktok that went like:
¨I saw this quote,
hurt people hurt people
and I think about how you hurt me
and I hurt myself¨
It played with a song called ¨let it go¨ by james bay and it made me fall in love with this quote.
This quote made me want to read this so thats what i´m about to do. such a long pre review, sorryy
Just like is said in my pre review, this was my first ever poetry book and I absolutely loved it. The writing is so beautifully done and I literally got carried away by the emotions of the poems. I don´t know who hurt this girl but they fucked her up real bad. I truly hope that she's okay now. Something I ́m really happy about is that I wasn't in the phase of heartbreak or love sickness when I read this. This is a really painful book especially when you go through the same feeling as the poems itself. Of course there were some poems that I could relate to as just a normal girl with feelings.
I´m really excited to read another poetry book by this author any time soon. I actually already got another one of her beautiful works🤭 Oh and i just saw in the description that it was published on my Bday lol
Here are some of my favorite poems:
if i believed in myself
as much as i did in you
maybe it wouldn´t
hurt so much
the fact that
it's not killing you
like it's killing me
says everything
no one else made sens
until you
and now-
nothing else makes sense
after you
the way someone leaves
tells you everything
you need to know
about them
if it was meant to be
we would still be
together
i wish
i could put the love
i give to other people
to myself
You were okay before
you will be okay after
I notice life without you
is still beautiful
—ĔĔ�
Pre review This will be the first time ever that I read a poetry and i´m so excited. I chose this one because of a quote i saw in tiktok that went like:
¨I saw this quote,
hurt people hurt people
and I think about how you hurt me
and I hurt myself¨
It played with a song called ¨let it go¨ by james bay and it made me fall in love with this quote.
This quote made me want to read this so thats what i´m about to do.
January 3, 2023
"Everytime someone breaks your heart, it comes back a little stronger."
April 1, 2024
how many times
can you say goodbye
to a person
before you finally
leave them ?
can you say goodbye
to a person
before you finally
leave them ?
February 24, 2023
We need to gatekeep poetry
December 13, 2022
I just saw the reel and read the line of this book ... I think this book know what i think and feel ..
November 26, 2022
Amazing
I just left my boyfriend of 9 months, and I’m absolutely destroyed. He cheated on me while I was upstairs in his bed, this book stopped my tears. This book, while it didn’t take away the pain, made the pain a little more bearable.
I just left my boyfriend of 9 months, and I’m absolutely destroyed. He cheated on me while I was upstairs in his bed, this book stopped my tears. This book, while it didn’t take away the pain, made the pain a little more bearable.
November 5, 2023
this reads like a teenage girl was going through her first crush-situationship-breakup phase and published a book consisting of her angsty thoughts from her notes app and called it poetry
December 23, 2022
I don't like this app
September 15, 2024
Unfortunately, grammatically incorrect malformed sentences lacking any measure of substance, style, or imagery cannot be called poetry. I have often felt previously when reading some book that the book I was holding in my hands deserved no star whatsoever, but this feels infinitely worse than all of those. At least the author of those books had some idea that they thought through before deciding to publish. At least those books weren't grammatically incorrect (and if they were, unlike here, it was for good reason). At least those books were doing something. I daresay that the average high schooler's journal (which, mind you, the high schooler would never think of publishing, and for good reason) would stand as a much better candidate for poetry than this.
If poetry is art, this is the exact opposite of poetry (I suppose it was a crime for me to expect anything to the contrary from what's called "instapoetry"). I have never felt such a strong disconnect between the voice of humanity and what I was reading. For those who want a more humanistic taste of what heartbreak can truly feel like, I recommend one poem: "Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)" by Pablo Neruda. Read that poem, and then come back to this collection. I dare you to find one poem here that can hold a candle to even a single word of Neruda's poetry.
Thank heavens that they don't assign kids instapoetry in school these days.
If poetry is art, this is the exact opposite of poetry (I suppose it was a crime for me to expect anything to the contrary from what's called "instapoetry"). I have never felt such a strong disconnect between the voice of humanity and what I was reading. For those who want a more humanistic taste of what heartbreak can truly feel like, I recommend one poem: "Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)" by Pablo Neruda. Read that poem, and then come back to this collection. I dare you to find one poem here that can hold a candle to even a single word of Neruda's poetry.
Thank heavens that they don't assign kids instapoetry in school these days.
June 15, 2023
I finished reading this book in just an hour. I wouldn't really recommend reading it, if you just broke up. While reading the poems, I couldn't help but shed some tears as I found them relatable. The book is filled with quotes that you often come across on TikTok or Instagram, nothing particularly mind-blowing. However, it did serve as a gentle reminder of my ongoing healing process and the fact that crying can be a way of grieving.
Some people might find the quotes a bit cringey, but personally, I connected with the first three chapters on a deeper level. If you want to cry it out this one might help u !!
Fyi lol Cried so much that my eyes were swollen!! 💁🏻♀�
Some people might find the quotes a bit cringey, but personally, I connected with the first three chapters on a deeper level. If you want to cry it out this one might help u !!
Fyi lol Cried so much that my eyes were swollen!! 💁🏻♀�
May 25, 2023
It took me a long time
to decide if it was time to leave
and when I left
i stayed gone
to decide if it was time to leave
and when I left
i stayed gone
February 24, 2023
some viral tweet showed up with two of these "poems" and I went to amazon to preview read as much as I could to confirm that yes, this is the worst "poetry" I've read since r.h. sin,which is the same instagrammable word salad. So I came here to rank this thing down for y'all.
June 17, 2023
i find a bit a comfort in knowing that somebody feels the same way that i do and they managed to move on. maybe one day i will be able to move on
update: I MOVED ON!!!!!!!!
update: I MOVED ON!!!!!!!!
July 26, 2023
Finished in one sitting 😍😍😍😍 because if I closed the book, I was never going to open it again.
January 6, 2025
Who had the audacity to call this a poem? This is anything but a poem.
In fact, it’s barely anything at all.
I’m pretty sure it’s written by a 14-year-old girl pouring her heart out over a breakup.
I’ll admit, I was drawn to this after seeing a couple of Instagram videos and read two pages (which were just two sentences) and thought, “Maybe this is worth a shot.�
But even if I forget the whole “poem� claim and treat it as a collection of quotes to flip through every now and then, there are only a handful of lines that hold any weight—and I’m pretty sure those are the ones I’d already seen online.
- when we first met i had no idea that i would become so attached.
- are you in love with the person or are you in love with the feeling?
In fact, it’s barely anything at all.
I’m pretty sure it’s written by a 14-year-old girl pouring her heart out over a breakup.
I’ll admit, I was drawn to this after seeing a couple of Instagram videos and read two pages (which were just two sentences) and thought, “Maybe this is worth a shot.�
But even if I forget the whole “poem� claim and treat it as a collection of quotes to flip through every now and then, there are only a handful of lines that hold any weight—and I’m pretty sure those are the ones I’d already seen online.
- when we first met i had no idea that i would become so attached.
- are you in love with the person or are you in love with the feeling?
March 7, 2024
if you want to read something while going through a heartbreak yes this is perfect but if you're going for poetry reasons please do not
February 27, 2023
let's just say there's room for everybody - gia gunn
Read
April 20, 2024idk
February 8, 2024
Like if you ever had a heart broke that ruin you so much kind of destroyed you than this book is for you my friend. It not very typical book. It is just simply defined journey of heart break, pain, grief, and healing. Good and Simple.
June 12, 2023
who hurt this girl i'm sobbing
September 9, 2023
in the end,
you were just another story for me to tell
you were just another story for me to tell
October 15, 2024
I’m so glad I didn’t read this book before I experienced my first breakup� I needed this on so many level. Cried from like page 20 and throughout the rest of the book. Needed this big time
Read
September 28, 2023felt like a hug, everything I was feeling is on these pages ❤️�
February 12, 2025
This was so beautiful and heartwarming but also painful in some ways
January 4, 2024
i push people away and hope they come back
- why do i keep breaking my own heart
-what do you do when your problem and your solution is the same person?
- why do i keep breaking my own heart
-what do you do when your problem and your solution is the same person?
January 26, 2023
It’s a quick read. Takes only like 30mins. But each page will hit you differently, especially if you are going through a break up. There are some facts in there that you already know. Reading it all during a rough time might help you feel stronger and ease the pain.
May 2, 2023
the fact that it's not killing you like it's killing me says everything
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September 13, 2023terrible writing
August 26, 2024
I picked up this book because the author posted a few snippets, and one video in particular caught my attention—it was bad, almost in a funny way, but enough to make me curious and enough to make me unfortunately buy it. I thought, why not? Let’s see which poetry collection would be worse Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, which I had read recently. If you're interested, here’s my take on it. (/review/show...) orrr Getting Over You by Leslie B
(A lot of this “poetry� you could easily find on Google, Pinterest, or even Tumblr.)
(But you know what you can’t find on those platforms? My very own poetry I wrote after reading this disappointment of a book. Skip to the end if you want to read it!)
The unnecessarily short review:
I went in with low expectations, and somehow, it managed to fall even lower.
The unnecessarily long review:
Let’s get into the review, buckle up, this is going to be pretty long. Here’s the “poetry� I saw on the authors page,
i have a question
answer me honestly
do you want us to continue
yes or no?
-if it's not a yes, it's a no
IF. ITS. NOT. A. YES. ITS. A. NO.
LIKE YEAH? NO FUCKING SHIT??
Honestly, I feel like today’s so-called poetry authors assume readers are clueless. They dumb everything down, almost like they think we're kids who can’t handle anything with substance. It all stays on the surface—no complexity, no real depth. It comes across as shallow. This book tries to call itself poetry, but really, it's just idle thoughts—nothing close to the depth or precision real poetry requires.
Unfortunately, a lot of the emerging note app poetry authors would benefit more from keeping a diary than publishing a book. Charging money for this so-called "poetry" feels downright criminal and absolutely vile.
Look, sometimes our thoughts need to stay thoughts, and that’s okay. Not every word you think, write down in your journal, send to somebody or want to send to somebody is going to be a literary masterpiece, and THATS O-KAY.
These poems seem aimed at people who just want something to relate to rather than something that evokes a deeper emotional response. However, just because they’re relatable doesn’t. mean. they’re. poetry.
Some poems in her book that I disliked (hard to choose since I disliked 99% of them)
Example:
and what does it mean
if the person who told you
that they will never leave
finally leaves?
I don’t fucking know, you tell me?
Example:
too many "almost" with too many people
That’s it. That’s the poem. More like too many “almost� with throwing this book across my fucking room.
Example:
used to watch sunsets with you
now i watch it alone
Point being?
Example:
if i could, i would
take you on a journey
of my overthinking
show you the process
of how you ruined me
if i could, i would
take you on a journey
and make you live it on repeat
If I could, I would go back in time and stop myself from wasting my time I could’ve been using to read other great books instead of settling to this one. But unfortunately we don’t always get what we want.
Example:
i think deep down i knew that you'd eventually leave.
Yeah, i’m leaving next.
Opposites Fate - A Ketchup and Mayonnaise Poem (don’t take me seriously)
When they first picked you up,
I saw how people used to separate us
when they enjoyed their meals.
But then they brought us together,
despite knowing we were opposites.
And now, there's something called "mayochup"
that shows we can be better� together.
(A lot of this “poetry� you could easily find on Google, Pinterest, or even Tumblr.)
(But you know what you can’t find on those platforms? My very own poetry I wrote after reading this disappointment of a book. Skip to the end if you want to read it!)
The unnecessarily short review:
I went in with low expectations, and somehow, it managed to fall even lower.
The unnecessarily long review:
Let’s get into the review, buckle up, this is going to be pretty long. Here’s the “poetry� I saw on the authors page,
i have a question
answer me honestly
do you want us to continue
yes or no?
-if it's not a yes, it's a no
IF. ITS. NOT. A. YES. ITS. A. NO.
LIKE YEAH? NO FUCKING SHIT??
Honestly, I feel like today’s so-called poetry authors assume readers are clueless. They dumb everything down, almost like they think we're kids who can’t handle anything with substance. It all stays on the surface—no complexity, no real depth. It comes across as shallow. This book tries to call itself poetry, but really, it's just idle thoughts—nothing close to the depth or precision real poetry requires.
Unfortunately, a lot of the emerging note app poetry authors would benefit more from keeping a diary than publishing a book. Charging money for this so-called "poetry" feels downright criminal and absolutely vile.
Look, sometimes our thoughts need to stay thoughts, and that’s okay. Not every word you think, write down in your journal, send to somebody or want to send to somebody is going to be a literary masterpiece, and THATS O-KAY.
These poems seem aimed at people who just want something to relate to rather than something that evokes a deeper emotional response. However, just because they’re relatable doesn’t. mean. they’re. poetry.
Some poems in her book that I disliked (hard to choose since I disliked 99% of them)
Example:
and what does it mean
if the person who told you
that they will never leave
finally leaves?
I don’t fucking know, you tell me?
Example:
too many "almost" with too many people
That’s it. That’s the poem. More like too many “almost� with throwing this book across my fucking room.
Example:
used to watch sunsets with you
now i watch it alone
Point being?
Example:
if i could, i would
take you on a journey
of my overthinking
show you the process
of how you ruined me
if i could, i would
take you on a journey
and make you live it on repeat
If I could, I would go back in time and stop myself from wasting my time I could’ve been using to read other great books instead of settling to this one. But unfortunately we don’t always get what we want.
Example:
i think deep down i knew that you'd eventually leave.
Yeah, i’m leaving next.
Opposites Fate - A Ketchup and Mayonnaise Poem (don’t take me seriously)
When they first picked you up,
I saw how people used to separate us
when they enjoyed their meals.
But then they brought us together,
despite knowing we were opposites.
And now, there's something called "mayochup"
that shows we can be better� together.
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