Keep Me Wild

by Raquel Franco

Keep Me Wild was written to remind you to not let them keep you contained. Do not let them tell you how to live, how to laugh, how to love or how to heal. In this collection of poetry I have written from my experience of loving, breaking and healing, places we all have been and hopefully these words will help you mend.

Genres: Poetry

204 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 29, 2019

About the author

Raquel Franco is a multi-racial poet of Venezuelan descent living in Ohio. She is the author of I’ll Cry If I Want To and When the Bee Stings and her work has been featured in Thought Catalog and Rattle Magazine. When she is not reading, writing or keeping up with two kids she is listening to Taylor Swift.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

A stunning portrait of one woman’s love story, struggling through their split & ultimately healing.

Told in poetry & prose, it’s near impossible not to relate to the words on the page.

“There’s that place between dreaming and awake where you’re safe and you’re free. I travel from empty pillows to the place where I’m determined you’ll be.”

My favorite parts were: Hands, Life Raft, Truth, Color Me Pretty, Stutter, Shooting Stars, Wear Me Out, Wildflower, Tomorrow, Wild Eyes, Veteran, Crash, Inside Out, Fever Pitch, Optimum Love, Morning, Pretty Thoughts, Purgatory, Hummingbird,Starved, Chameleon, Run, Don’t, Played, Flourish, Rise, Peace, Capture, Full Moon & Fire Starter.

3.5⭐️

I picked this book up on a whim last year at a library sale and I’m so grateful that I did because it got me out of one heck of a slump!

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[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Raquel Franco’s book, Keep Her Wild, reads like a story, each chapter flowing into the next. It starts with Wild Heart, a section dedicated to the (sometimes reckless) souls who run with wolves and chase the wind. It contains my favorite piece in the book, I Will Not Wait. Second is He Loves Me, which is filled with beautiful love poems that make the heart flutter. He Loves Me Not uses powerful imagery to tell of love lost and the pain that comes with it. The piece called She Loved screams from the page with its amazing imagery. The book closes with Lessons for the Wild Heart. She is wiser for having lived through the battle, and this section is all about her growth and what she learned. In each section Raquel combines shorter and longer pieces for a continuous story. She is capable of magic, weaving depth into just a few lines. Lines that leave you wide-eyed and breathless. Her words speak of love, of relationships, of finding and owning your inner strength, of embracing the wildness beating in your heart. It’s a gorgeous book.

[Brandy Thornton · Rating 4 out of 5]

What an empowering book!