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  • wear it tight

    wear it tight

    Your body uncurls, stretches deliciously and spills on the sheets, pink tongue slips out and in. I wonder what it’s like, I wonder the purity in you to be soft in the presence of a being so capable of harm My skin longs for the same but, I wear it tight.

    Rafia Bilkis

    September 4, 2022
    Poetry
    creative writing, free verse, inspirational, literature, nature, Poetry, poetry books
  • It too knows

    It too knows

    It too knows, seen its brethren slaughtered, eaten— felt the raw course of illness in their blood, crushed skulls, aged bones and bitter cold yet they lope off walls, graze with ease in the fields, stands easy in the winds, flits past closed buds like nothing is of consequence like everything is, as is yet my […]

    Rafia Bilkis

    September 3, 2022
    Poetry
    art, creative writing, death, free verse, inspirational, literature, nature, Poetry, poetry books
  • The bug

    The bug

    The bug scuttles across the pavement hints of red amidst the sheer wings head lifted proudly on spindly limbs. The sky seems lighter today, thin clouds— The bug scuttles back from whence it came, peaceful in its knowing unknown the span of the sidewalk.

    Rafia Bilkis

    September 2, 2022
    Micropoetry
    art, blogging, creative writing, free verse, literature, nature, Poetry, poetry books
  • A son’s question

    A son’s question

    Your harsh light has my head beaten down to the toes my ears red to the heat. Father, there is too much to see to have these curious eyes only to the grains touched to these feet Mother! Let out your braided branches  cover me in your dappled shadows so I may taste more than the […]

    Rafia Bilkis

    September 1, 2022
    Scriptural poetry
    art, creative writing, free verse, inspirational, literature, nature, Poetry, religion
  • will be gone

    will be gone

    My head rests on soaked mud, the sky drizzles and my vision blurs It’s hard to keep my eyes open I look up your stem, silky petals curled pink and one hangs precariously, a few more moments and it drifts down to join me Ah…soon all your sisters will join but I, will be gone

    Rafia Bilkis

    August 29, 2022
    Poetry
    art, creative writing, death, free verse, inspirational, literature, nature, Poetry, poetry books
  • A willow spills her joy

    A willow spills her joy

    There in the glade, a willow spills her joy in the wind shaking left and right like a slow dream It spreads through the underbrush a hush, a spell that beckons  and a roe nimbly floats through the soft curtain of quiet rain And I sit on a bench, entranced, a specter, ghostly figure who […]

    Rafia Bilkis

    August 28, 2022
    Micropoetry
    art, creative writing, free verse, inspirational, literature, nature, poem, Poetry, poetry books
  • Begging hands

    Begging hands

    even when you shy away The stars still sparkle on you even when you stiffen your shoulder The clouds still wrap, wool around you even when you turn away your face The boughs still weigh down unto your cheeks catching dews And the sun and moon still kiss your brow under your cloak And the ground […]

    Rafia Bilkis

    August 26, 2022
    Poetry
    creative writing, free verse, inspirational, literature, nature, poem, Poetry, poetry books
  • Winds of faith

    Winds of faith

    My eyes sweat at the sight of ankles running free in the grass songs and dance that circle by hands linked, where hands are calloused, only for each other, and lips only know of mirth and promises and hair that snags in the winds of faith voices that weave through Breath and sleep even in […]

    Rafia Bilkis

    August 24, 2022
    Poetry
    creative writing, free verse, humanity, inspirational, literature, nature, Poetry, poetry books
  • Daughter’s cry

    Daughter’s cry

    O Father, why have you beaten Mother away The lands are dry, and your children crawl whipped by your words that direct no man but broken backs O Father, your great hand has nothing to guide no sunlight reflected, and no sunflowers dancing to you for the rivers of Mother run dry she has sunk […]

    Rafia Bilkis

    August 22, 2022
    Poetry
    creative writing, free verse, inspirational, literature, nature, poem, poetry books, religion
  • An hour sliced off

    An hour sliced off

    I know there are still wars outside not just the ones for territory fighting for things that will only ever belong to us for an hour sliced off the lifespans snuffed but the cold wars of the mind, hunger and bonds of blood and in this cocoon I find myself in I sleep a while in […]

    Rafia Bilkis

    August 20, 2022
    Poetry
    art, creative writing, free verse, inspirational, literature, Poetry, poetry books, quotes, war
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