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All the Words Are Yours: Haiku on Love
Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Poetry (2015)Here starts the journey
Every day for the past six years, Tyler Knott Gregson has written a simple haiku about love, and posted it online. These heartfelt poems have attracted a large and loyal following around the world. This highly anticipated follow-up to Chasers of the Light, presents Tyler’s favorites, some previously unpublished, accompanied by his signature photographs, which capture the rich texture of daily life.
This vibrant collection reveals the intimate reflections of one of poetry's most popular new voices -- honest, vulnerable, generous, and truly present in the gift that is each moment.
From the Hardcover edition.
144 pages, Hardcover
First published October 20, 2015
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September 8, 2016A book like this can only be reviewed in .gif format.
That pretty much sums in up.
Chasers of the Light was bad, and twee, and a genius marketing scheme, but this is just too far. The photographs the photoshop typewriter font is added to aren't even interesting or hipster-cool like in his last collection. And it's all haikus (the worst), but only one form of them. And all of them are about how sad yet beautiful love is. Because feelings, yo. Feelings.
But still, it's all pretty genius and he is going to make all the money. Because feelings. You'll feel 'em. You'll say 'aw, he's just like me!' You'll get it 20% off at Barnes and Noble and he'll get 100% of your feelings.
I want to try now:
Reading Tyler's work
Makes my heart fly to the clouds
His words are balloons.
Now get all artsy with the font and put in on a picture of some gorgeous sunset where in the corner and far off you see a very sad looking, but very attractive teen boy or girl staring at said sunset. And BAM: Feelings. You'll be rich, kid.
If you want to save $15, steal the backpack of any sad looking teen and leaf through their class notebooks and you'll find the same sort of poems. Except probably better. But not so well formatted.
This review is rude and crude and I don't wish him ill, I should probably just remain silent. He's doing what he loves and that is cool, and more power to him for doing well. At at least his audience is going to be reading poetry. And that is what really matters. At least a book of poems is on a best-seller list.
He gets 1 star, and the keys to your teenagers heart.
That pretty much sums in up.
Chasers of the Light was bad, and twee, and a genius marketing scheme, but this is just too far. The photographs the photoshop typewriter font is added to aren't even interesting or hipster-cool like in his last collection. And it's all haikus (the worst), but only one form of them. And all of them are about how sad yet beautiful love is. Because feelings, yo. Feelings.
But still, it's all pretty genius and he is going to make all the money. Because feelings. You'll feel 'em. You'll say 'aw, he's just like me!' You'll get it 20% off at Barnes and Noble and he'll get 100% of your feelings.
I want to try now:
Reading Tyler's work
Makes my heart fly to the clouds
His words are balloons.
Now get all artsy with the font and put in on a picture of some gorgeous sunset where in the corner and far off you see a very sad looking, but very attractive teen boy or girl staring at said sunset. And BAM: Feelings. You'll be rich, kid.
If you want to save $15, steal the backpack of any sad looking teen and leaf through their class notebooks and you'll find the same sort of poems. Except probably better. But not so well formatted.
This review is rude and crude and I don't wish him ill, I should probably just remain silent. He's doing what he loves and that is cool, and more power to him for doing well. At at least his audience is going to be reading poetry. And that is what really matters. At least a book of poems is on a best-seller list.
He gets 1 star, and the keys to your teenagers heart.
August 16, 2017
"Whisper to me soft,
sing a song of homecoming,
hum me back to you."
I've been following Tyler on social media for years, and purchased this book when it first released a few years ago, but for some bizarre reason, it's been sitting, unopened, just looking pretty on my shelf until now. I love poetry collections, and Tyler's voice in particular is so beautiful and full of haunting that it never gets old. I only knocked a star off because a handful of the haikus are a bit repetitive, but this is a gorgeous collection that would be a fantastic addition to any poetry shelf.
sing a song of homecoming,
hum me back to you."
I've been following Tyler on social media for years, and purchased this book when it first released a few years ago, but for some bizarre reason, it's been sitting, unopened, just looking pretty on my shelf until now. I love poetry collections, and Tyler's voice in particular is so beautiful and full of haunting that it never gets old. I only knocked a star off because a handful of the haikus are a bit repetitive, but this is a gorgeous collection that would be a fantastic addition to any poetry shelf.
March 12, 2016
Disappointed (on the whole); I only doggie-eared 5 pages. That being said, I really like the 5 that I marked, and I need to write them down in a special place. Maybe I'll even frame a few...
Here are two favorites:
I have simple needs,
Just you and my morning tea,
The moment I rise.
Let it all crumble,
let all you shouldn't carry
burn beneath your feet.
Here are two favorites:
I have simple needs,
Just you and my morning tea,
The moment I rise.
Let it all crumble,
let all you shouldn't carry
burn beneath your feet.
July 6, 2017
Despite the book's title, I honestly have no words to adequately describe the way this collection of haiku affected me. It arrived in the mail at 5:00 today, and I've read it twice since. It's inspired me to be a better writer, a better person. The easiest 5 stars I've ever given.
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February 9, 2021Touching words burnish
deep intimate emotions
in this lovely book- Sara S.
deep intimate emotions
in this lovely book- Sara S.
June 20, 2016
I'll be honest, I did not go into this book expecting it to be a five-star book. I've said it before and I'll say it again- I save my five-stars for books that are truly worthy. This book is truly worthy. It is a quick read, yes, but it is insightful, thoughtful, and lovely while still being short. The haiku are beautiful and uplifting. I'd recommend this book to anyone with fifteen minutes on hand and a heart in their chest.
February 7, 2017
محاولاتي في قراءة الشعر باللغة الانجليزية فاشلة جدا ولا استطيع تقبلها نهائيا، ربما بسبب قلة معرفتي بالشعر لكن كتجربة كلام فاضي ...
November 20, 2015
Maybe I'm cold; maybe I don't get it. Don't read if you are rushed; don't read if you are not in love.
March 13, 2016
PERFECTION
December 25, 2016
Morgana giving
Tempting drinks of pure love
To desert’soul.
"In the Darkest Part
In the Middle of the Night
I need You the Most"
"Your soul knew my soul
long before we needed skin
to spend a life in"
"The shadow of us
the remnants of who we were
fade now in the light."
Tempting drinks of pure love
To desert’soul.
"In the Darkest Part
In the Middle of the Night
I need You the Most"
"Your soul knew my soul
long before we needed skin
to spend a life in"
"The shadow of us
the remnants of who we were
fade now in the light."
November 29, 2015
Source: Library
January 11, 2021
some poetry simply finds its way to your heart and feels comfortable there, and so it stays.
August 13, 2025
“It’s ok you know,
To be carried now and then,
Strength too needs a rest.”
To be carried now and then,
Strength too needs a rest.”
November 21, 2016
Full review (below) was originally posted on The Rachel Perspective.
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When we were in grade school, English classes always had a segment on poetry. And within that segment, we learned about a Japanese form called a haiku. A 5-7-5 syllable rhythm that we always had to count out on our fingers just to make sure we had the right amount (and sometimes even question the number of syllables for certain words), and it was always a love/hate relationship with this poetic form. They are wonderfully short, but difficultly so.
For Tyler Knott Gregson, however, it was love. Literally! In his newest collection of haiku poetry, All The Words Are Yours: Haiku on Love, we journey through an odyssey of love and all that it entails. It’s not just the romance and happy things about love; it is everything – every aspect of the love spectrum. It is the little bits that we individually love about being in love and the not-so-pretty parts of it too. And better so, Gregson is able to portray such magnificent feelings in so few of words; something I always applaud poets for being able to do. The fact that Gregson wrote these haikus everyday for the past six years (and posted them on his website), I am envious of such dedication.
Now, as an epically single woman, reading love poetry can be hit or miss for me; in fact, I would probably shy away from it. More so, if it’s too gushy, I will definitely turn the other cheek. I had a suspicion that this might happen with Gregson’s work, but it turns out that, as I made note of a few favorite passages, shying away or turning the other cheek was definitely not the case. I made note of more than half the collection as a favorite. The poems that kept me reading were not the ones in regards to feelings about being with a person and “oh my gosh, I love you” scenarios. Rather, I was most affected by the haikus that were deeply profound and more abstract, the ones that do not necessarily have to be associated with relationships at all. And that is truly where I believe Tyler Knott Gregson receives such high praise in my book *pun intended*. Had these truly been all “lovey-dovey” poems, I may not have felt the same way about it.
Even more so, the images on which the poetry is displayed – photographed by Gregson himself – are not only incredibly beautiful, but can also be a journey within themselves. Once you have read through the haikus, I encourage you to go back and just look at the images. Never has daily life looked so beautiful.
In less words, All The Words Are Yours is the perfect coffee table book. If and when I ever have a coffee table of my own, I guarantee that is where my copy of Tyler Knott Gregson’s book will sit. It is inspirational; it is honest; it is a collection that will resonate uniquely depending on the past, present, and future love lives of each individual reader. The biggest struggle you will ever have reading All The Words Are Yours by Tyler Knott Gregson is resisting the urge to count the syllables for every single page on your fingers.
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When we were in grade school, English classes always had a segment on poetry. And within that segment, we learned about a Japanese form called a haiku. A 5-7-5 syllable rhythm that we always had to count out on our fingers just to make sure we had the right amount (and sometimes even question the number of syllables for certain words), and it was always a love/hate relationship with this poetic form. They are wonderfully short, but difficultly so.
For Tyler Knott Gregson, however, it was love. Literally! In his newest collection of haiku poetry, All The Words Are Yours: Haiku on Love, we journey through an odyssey of love and all that it entails. It’s not just the romance and happy things about love; it is everything – every aspect of the love spectrum. It is the little bits that we individually love about being in love and the not-so-pretty parts of it too. And better so, Gregson is able to portray such magnificent feelings in so few of words; something I always applaud poets for being able to do. The fact that Gregson wrote these haikus everyday for the past six years (and posted them on his website), I am envious of such dedication.
Now, as an epically single woman, reading love poetry can be hit or miss for me; in fact, I would probably shy away from it. More so, if it’s too gushy, I will definitely turn the other cheek. I had a suspicion that this might happen with Gregson’s work, but it turns out that, as I made note of a few favorite passages, shying away or turning the other cheek was definitely not the case. I made note of more than half the collection as a favorite. The poems that kept me reading were not the ones in regards to feelings about being with a person and “oh my gosh, I love you” scenarios. Rather, I was most affected by the haikus that were deeply profound and more abstract, the ones that do not necessarily have to be associated with relationships at all. And that is truly where I believe Tyler Knott Gregson receives such high praise in my book *pun intended*. Had these truly been all “lovey-dovey” poems, I may not have felt the same way about it.
Even more so, the images on which the poetry is displayed – photographed by Gregson himself – are not only incredibly beautiful, but can also be a journey within themselves. Once you have read through the haikus, I encourage you to go back and just look at the images. Never has daily life looked so beautiful.
In less words, All The Words Are Yours is the perfect coffee table book. If and when I ever have a coffee table of my own, I guarantee that is where my copy of Tyler Knott Gregson’s book will sit. It is inspirational; it is honest; it is a collection that will resonate uniquely depending on the past, present, and future love lives of each individual reader. The biggest struggle you will ever have reading All The Words Are Yours by Tyler Knott Gregson is resisting the urge to count the syllables for every single page on your fingers.
May 8, 2016
Repetitious, without intrinsic value.
The spareness of the haiku form gives the reader ample room to read himself into the words, but the poems have no life or feeling of their own. They all felt flat to me, nothing but words on a page. They told no story, evoked no sense of place or person or emotion. If you do not read yourself into the poems, they are uncomfortably voyeuristic: they are personal exercises in a technical form and in an expression of feelings, private snapshots of someone else's relationship. Yet even as snapshots, they fail — blurry images, macro shots, without distinct form or portrayal, precious to the one who took them, meaningless and alien to the outsider.
Did I dislike the book? No, not really. I simply did not care, not even enough to feel antipathy.
Yet another of my Tumblr poetry finds bites the dust.
The spareness of the haiku form gives the reader ample room to read himself into the words, but the poems have no life or feeling of their own. They all felt flat to me, nothing but words on a page. They told no story, evoked no sense of place or person or emotion. If you do not read yourself into the poems, they are uncomfortably voyeuristic: they are personal exercises in a technical form and in an expression of feelings, private snapshots of someone else's relationship. Yet even as snapshots, they fail — blurry images, macro shots, without distinct form or portrayal, precious to the one who took them, meaningless and alien to the outsider.
Did I dislike the book? No, not really. I simply did not care, not even enough to feel antipathy.
Yet another of my Tumblr poetry finds bites the dust.
July 3, 2017
Love me as I am,
see me for who I will be,
forgive who I was.
Genuine is when love is asking for forgiveness, acceptance is the purity of love, and dreams are the fuel that brings life to the dream.
We are a sad song
Sung in a Beautiful voice,
Haunting but hopeful
I just think about this one and smile. I don't know if anyone has ever bought a cassette of cd just for 2 or 3 songs you fell in love with...this book is like that for me with these 2 haiku. Had to get it just for these. I like some others in here but these are my favorites. It gathered me up into inspiration's maelstrom.
see me for who I will be,
forgive who I was.
Genuine is when love is asking for forgiveness, acceptance is the purity of love, and dreams are the fuel that brings life to the dream.
We are a sad song
Sung in a Beautiful voice,
Haunting but hopeful
I just think about this one and smile. I don't know if anyone has ever bought a cassette of cd just for 2 or 3 songs you fell in love with...this book is like that for me with these 2 haiku. Had to get it just for these. I like some others in here but these are my favorites. It gathered me up into inspiration's maelstrom.
December 26, 2017
This one deserve more than 5 Stars!!!
I have read Chasers of the Light last year and I LOVED it and I LOVED this one as well!!!!
To be honest I can't choose a favorite poem for I fell for all of them, I forgot that I have loved the way he wrote his poems last and it hit me again!
I really recommend this to everyone!
Everything is just perfect! The writing, the pictures! There is something that moves you when u read it T-T
Reread in December 2017
Just like the first time I have read it, I’m smiling and I’m happy.
I simply have nothing to add because this is perfect XD!
I have read Chasers of the Light last year and I LOVED it and I LOVED this one as well!!!!
To be honest I can't choose a favorite poem for I fell for all of them, I forgot that I have loved the way he wrote his poems last and it hit me again!
I really recommend this to everyone!
Everything is just perfect! The writing, the pictures! There is something that moves you when u read it T-T
Reread in December 2017
Just like the first time I have read it, I’m smiling and I’m happy.
I simply have nothing to add because this is perfect XD!
December 20, 2016
This reads like scribblings from the margines of a heartsick, puppy love stricken, fourteen year old boy's history notebook. It is also formatted like one of those books where you send in family photos and captions and they bind a keepsake book for you. The photographs were amateur in nature.
I received this in a box of random unsolicited books from a publisher. Thank goodness I didn't pay for it.
I received this in a box of random unsolicited books from a publisher. Thank goodness I didn't pay for it.
October 14, 2015
I can't say anything more than I said about his first title. Gregson is absolutely a modern favorite and I hang on every word. His language is somehow metered with effortless precision and each sound is heavy and purposeful. I read many of these aloud to my boyfriend, who is long distance.
Beauty exists here.
-copy won in a giveaway, being donated to a library.
Beauty exists here.
-copy won in a giveaway, being donated to a library.
November 18, 2015
I find you in storms,
I feel you in the lighting,
I miss you in the rain.
This little book of poetry can touch your heart.
Love me as I am.
See me for who I will be,
Forgive who I was.
Tyler Knott takes simple words and weaves them into beautiful magic.
The stars came out to watch,
And the moon peeked out to see,
They watched what we were.
I feel you in the lighting,
I miss you in the rain.
This little book of poetry can touch your heart.
Love me as I am.
See me for who I will be,
Forgive who I was.
Tyler Knott takes simple words and weaves them into beautiful magic.
The stars came out to watch,
And the moon peeked out to see,
They watched what we were.
January 7, 2016
Beautifully thoughtful, loving poems of tenderness and intimacy, loneliness and despair, heartache and love. A book to be shared, read aloud, in the most peaceful moment with the most important person in your life. Much like I did.
August 18, 2017
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March 8, 2016
Wow, this was a trip. It's a super quick read given the format but it takes you on a journey. I hope that we're all able to find love like a Tyler Knott Gregson haiku.
November 16, 2016
"All the words are yours."
"You're still hidden in my poetry."
Yes. Only you.
"You're still hidden in my poetry."
Yes. Only you.
September 22, 2017
“Your soul knew my soul long before we needed skin to spend a life in.”
This book is beautiful in every aspect.
This book is beautiful in every aspect.
May 29, 2019
Quick but poignant read. My favorite was:
"I am made of more;
more than tears, more than heartache,
more than all of this."
"I am made of more;
more than tears, more than heartache,
more than all of this."
December 12, 2019
Again, another stunning collection by Tyler Gregson. I love reading his interpretation on love and his poetry really makes me feel something, you know? Since these were all haikus about love, they were really straightforward and didn’t require much thinking on my part. I again liked how there was variety in the media used in this book - there were his classic typewriter poems, ones written on little slips of paper, and typed ones with an image to accompany the poem. I wish I owned all of his books because they are so good and I want to reread them all.
August 8, 2018
2 ⭐ for content & 5 ⭐ for the format = 3.5 ⭐
The words written so beautiful,
But it's gone in flitting seconds,
Like the words never exist.
That's my problem with haiku. May be because it's too short to tug my heart and make an impression. My problem.
July 4, 2017
3.5 stars
April 7, 2018
LOVE! That’s all I can say for this wonderful book ❤️
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