Glass Hearts and Broken Promises

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If this is not the case, and I'm simply hallucinating, then to that I say, other poets have written about heartbreak before and been more relatable to me, or I believe their poems were a little wittier and a bit punchier compared to this collection. I’m not sure how it happened when our love became hatred all I know is that right now I’m sitting here all alone without my friend or a love and a giant hole in my heart (20) I’d spent forever waking up beside you. Learning the way you liked your coffee. Listening to what brought you joy in this world and consoling you when things didn’t go as planned. It was brutal letting all that go. I was suspended in a future that I thought we both had wanted and now that that’s gone (111) Thank you to the publisher for providing an ARC through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The writing style made me feel like she is an older sister telling me what I need to hear in a way that says, “I see and feel your pain because I’ve been there and we’ll get through this.”

She then proceeded to talk about it in the exact same way politicians have been talking about it for 25 years!”

And second, some lines just don't really make sense. The logic is entirely missing, or at least a big enough part of it that I can't follow. At the point that our promises have become tactics to get what we want verses commitments that we intend to keep, the only thing that we are promising is the delivery of a broken promise.” PDF / EPUB File Name: Aisling_A_Spell_Unbinding_-_AE_Jurgens.pdf, Aisling_A_Spell_Unbinding_-_AE_Jurgens.epub

There were several poems I did like in this book. I think the author has potential, but this collection was not my favorite collection in terms of poetry. When I first saw the description for this book, I got really excited because I love poetry that balances between pain and healing, so I was looking forward to the way it could help me feel seen and understood. However, the pain of the past is the biggest focus and the depth it goes to when it comes to healing is quite surface-level. The writing is also very simple and it reads more like a diary or a letter than poetry, which can be a good or bad thing, depending on your reading preferences. I would prefer something deeper & more detailed because it didn't bring me a lot of value like this. A lot of the messages were things I already knew, the writing was too plain for me, and it mainly gave me only negative emotions. I thought of our very first fight. I thought of the way you yelled. I thought of the first time I caught you keeping secrets from me the things that you never told me but somehow, I already knew. The ones that made me feel worthless and unloved the ones that I pushed aside because I loved you… And then I thought of our last day together the last day we were two halves of the same whole the day we talked and cried as we agreed that this was the end (131) But there was a part of me that wanted to see you again. A part of me that didn’t want the last time I saw you to have been the last time. I was hoping that there’d be a day where we’d finally see each other again and everything would finally feel right. We would finally make sense that when day came. It didn’t end the way I had imagined it (143)

I don’t want to lose you but if I do I really hope that we were just two people who had to lose each other to find each other again (17) I found some of the poems to be extremely beautiful, and in general, some of the writing to be thought-evoking, especially as a person who has never experienced heartbreak before. But my accolades can’t run far as there were a lot of structural errors that made it difficult for me to enjoy the collection. I’m over the nausea and the crying but you’re still the first thing I see as I get up in the morning and the last as I close my eyes at night (118) He would doubtless have promised anything for the mere pleasure of breaking all bounds; perhaps he would even have liked her to ask him to swear on oath so he could add the attractions of perjury to his horrible pleasures.” When Trump said, at the first debate, “If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t even be talking about illegal immigration,” Carly Fiorina was not on the debate stage. She had waited until she bullied her way into the second debate to say, "Immigration did not come up in 2016 because Mr. Trump brought it up; we talked about it in 2012, we talked about it in 2008. We talked about it in 2004. We have been talking about it for 25 years. This is why people are tired of politicians.”

Why did you come into my life acting like you loved me. Showing me something I never had before. Making me believe you cared and then leave? (27) I continued loving you despite knowing that you didn’t deserve me. I kept supporting you thinking that you were going to change I made excuses for the relationship thinking that it was going to be different this time around but it wasn’t because I couldn’t make you choose me or want me or even remember me when I was gone (89)Glass Hearts & Broken Promises is a very modern collection of poems in that it has no rhymes, no verse, no titles, and barely any punctuation. And that could have been fine! Some of my favourite poems ever are in free verse! Anyone who's ever read any poem Mary Oliver wrote knows free verse can be done well. You had me believing that I meant more to you than what I actually did. You were always great at making me believe in lies (68)