black roses: poems about love, heartbreak, mental health, self love, depression, healing, grief & loss — poetry books for young adults, women & teens

by Ariel Day

short form poetry exploring themes of love, heartbreak & self-love.

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction, Mental Health, Self Help

48 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2023

Reviews

[Isabella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. It was alright. Easiest thing I’ve ever read in 5 minutes so that’s amazing! These were okay. Simple. Didn’t make me feel one way or the other.

[Lucy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some lines have potential, but it feels like a 12 year old looked at Rupi Kaur and said "I can do that"

The highlight is:

if hating some men
means you're not straight
i guess i'm a circle

[emily marie ٠࣪⭑ [yes, your worship]]

A lot of the quotes spoke to me, not that I’ve experienced a real breakup, but I have experienced heartbreak, and the words written here felt like recognition.

𐙚⋆° “i was in love with the idea of being the kind of girl you could be in love with” ｡⋆♡

𐙚⋆° “because my armor is too tight and i am suffocating from the inside out and now the only person i can hate is myself”｡⋆♡

𐙚⋆° “why are the easiest people to hate also the easiest to love?” ｡⋆♡

content warning: f*ck used once in a sexual manner, mentions of whiskey, mention of being drunk, mention of a grandma dying

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

"i love people
who bring out the parts of me
i keep hidden

i hide myself
like a child playing hide and seek
i don’t know what i want more—
to hide
or for someone to find me"

3.5 Sterne

[Tilly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm surprised I enjoyed this

[xlinaz01 · Rating 3 out of 5]

don't mind me, just going through my feels at 12am.

[Zara · Rating 4 out of 5]

hit hard today <3

[Ally Jensen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 Stars ⭐️ Some poems I really liked and others I didn’t. I mean that’s your typical poetry collection, but I don’t think this one left an impression.

[scar! . *. ⋆ (Johnny kavanaghs version) · Rating 2 out of 5]

“i've always found it interesting how the smallest moments can be the happiest”

This was a short little book of poems about heartbreak and grief and it was the kind of poetry that had me in thought. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of poetry every now and again, all though this wasn’t my favourite one it was still good!.

[hannah :) · Rating 4 out of 5]

“i love people who bring out the parts of me i keep hidden i hide myself like a child playing hide and seek i don’t know what i want more— to hide or for someone to find me - i want both”

oh how i love poetry

[McKenna Shea · Rating 3 out of 5]

loved but also why was this literally so short ??

[Emily V. · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a cute short collection of poems but I wish many were longer. I did enjoy the list of who the poems were for and followed along as I read them. 3⭐️

[Nicole J · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Lizavetafantasy · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Simone McCue · Rating 5 out of 5]

beautiful

A small but beautiful collections of poems that will open your heart and soul. I love readying poetry and being able to see and feel what has been written and find it so beautiful to relate to a complete stranger.

[Eve L-A Witherington · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great collection, as I call, of common sense poetry, you read each word or each line, reflect on it and I find myself nodding along agreeing, it makes so much sense, someone else gets how it can feel in certain situations.

Poetry about parents and love situations I really related to again agreeing along on how much someone else feels how I too have felt in trying to feel you are enough.

The poem, The most popular guy at the funeral, was easily a favourite and made me reflect on my own relationship and how lucky I feel I have someone now who could reply with 20 things I like as Ariel asks her guy in the poem, but, previously I have been in a relationship to realise they don't actually know me, this isn't love, hard as it was and again the poem following it, Naïve cynic, was similar again to a situation I went through and generally I love a collection like this that is really relatable and being a shorter collection stans out all the more so impact wise.

[Evelyn White · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book for my friend cause she loves poems, for her birthday I wanted to put a post it note on each of the poems I thought she’d like most.
Some of these poems were beautiful and spoke to me on such a high level.
But on the other hand some of them read a bit like an English gcse poem.

I’m gonna be honest. Poetry is supposed to stick with you and make you feel how the author felt whilst writing the poem. This book is not going to plague my mind like so many others. While this was good, it was not my fav poetry book.

[Chalyssa Lamb · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wouldn't say this was anything profound but it was okay. It was short and a little repetitive but it was sweet too. Saw it when I was looking for something to read on KU and decided to go for it. It does inspire me to continue working on my own poetry collection. Hopefully the author will continue to explore poetry!

[maka · Rating 3 out of 5]

after reading the first couple, i was really worried. most of the first few started off the same way, and i was afraid it was going to be like r.h. sin, but i actually really enjoyed this. they were short while also being beautifully written and full of emotion and detail. THIS is how you do short poetry

[Ethan Matthews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Two poems in and I could already tell this was the poem book I was looking for. Every poem was depressing and poignant. I prefer my poems to be a bit bleak and fleeting.This really seems to draw the point of being severely tormented. I knew immediately that this is what I wanted to read. I'm glad I sorted through multiple books to find this.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

ugh I can’t stop with the feelings!

Loved this book of poems. Definitely buying a physical copy to keep! Sad there wasn’t more to read, felt like I was reading my life and got to my cliffhanger

[Miriam Rose · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of nothing

Very surface level "deepness" and nothing groundbreaking. I wish there was something to make this collection stand out from the hundreds of others like it but nope.

[Ashley Phillips · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too short and didn't grab me

Too short to grab my interest and the content that was there was weak. By the time I decided to give it a chance and it may get better, it was already over.

[Jenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

enjoyed it

[Lila Sarnecki · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was short and sweet.

[kamryn ౨ৎ · Rating 3 out of 5]

𝟑 ☆

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honestly i loved it .

[Sophie Edina · Rating 3 out of 5]

this felt pure and simple, there were some nice images and ideas in the poems!

[Morgan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this short poetry read. It sparked a lot of emotion. I noticed a few grammatical errors but nothing too drastic.

[Elliot · Rating 3 out of 5]

It felt very generic compared to other poetry books I have read

[Leah · Rating 4 out of 5]

my favourites were:
adjustment disorder
“joke”
sweet antifreeze
most popular guy at the funeral.