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• Graveyard

  

  Headstones covered in mists, smell of wet Earth blanketing the dead. Do I hear their whispers left behind? Rustle of leaves Sighs of the wind Oh, you who have gone before me, What mysteries do you see? Across the edge of the known world I yearn to follow a gnawing hunger for the unknowable, for eternity,…

  Rafia Bilkis

  July 19, 2021

  Poetry

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• Crack

  

  A marionette daughter, perfectly coiffed hair as her mother likes, dressed in red to be seen and adored.  Eyes cast down, bowing to father, smile not too wide, not too small, talk not too loud, not too low, walk quietly, no running or mucking about. Obedient and muted, a doll for the dress up, for…

  Rafia Bilkis

  July 18, 2021

  Poetry

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• Window

  

  Sunlit smile beaming through the open Window cool Breeze  fluttering through the curtains,  bashful like a veiled bride. Sensual perfume filled the air. I feel her threading between these fingers, whispering by these ears. Don’t be shy, I say Slip between this breast Speak through these eyes, these lips.. with every twist of this body,…

  Rafia Bilkis

  July 14, 2021

  Poetry

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• The Axis of the Earth

  

  Take the light of the sun in the dark, and the one that’s hidden shines back. Without the moonshine, the sun would not know the darkness that shines for him. Without his light her moonlit beauty would remain ever lost.. That eternal dance across the sky of one shining for the other since time beginning..…

  Rafia Bilkis

  July 9, 2021

  Poetry

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