Hi All
It's an amazing day to share with you the work of someone I find highly talented. Today, on the Jimmy page and website, I am excited to share the poetry of Noora (Raw Diamond) with you!
Noora and I have been friends for a good bit of time now and I've followed her work since the day I first ran across it. Her poetry is powerful, often emotional, and always a pleasure to read. She is the Admin behind Special Needs Quill - a fantastic poetry group I am honored to be a part of (and I'm looking forward to the first SNQ anthology in 2023!).
Here is Noora (Raw Diamond) in her own words:
noora@RAW Diamond is a poetess who has endured much since childhood, falling prey to every abuse, and tribulation imaginable. Writing is what has been her guiding source of light, although she failed to believe in the magic of words, until recently. And still she struggles to see the power of her writing, as told to her by many, and only hopes that it does console others, the way that her poetry has eased the scars within her own mind and heart. Noora is transforming her pain into light, and is using the writing world full on to launch once hidden dreams…
To Jimmy Broccoli, I wish to say thank you, for this feature, I am deeply humbled, and may all your endeavours be favoured with great success.
Here are two poems by Noora - and I know you'll love them as much as I do! ______________ **Haunted Horrors**
Haunted horrors homed
In a
Merciless maddening mind
It is
Unkind undying undenied
No key
To enthralling embarking emancipation
Just a
Portal paving polytheists
Child's play
Demonising dashing daisies
But a
Ravenous raven relishes
A caw
Stenchy stealth scarred
In a
Gruesome grey gravel
Road of
Conjured cognitive connotations
Of once
Summoned saintly sermons
Yet a
Trapped trauma trespassed
Forgive the
Chastity chained chivalry
In a
Licentious lustful lingerie
Of the
Ghastly gaping gushings
Of the
Black barred beams
Of the
Stolen seduction silenced
In the
Mortified memory murdered
The past
Twirls trivial torture
And the
Eyes escape exoneration
For in
Innocence imbued impurity
Of a
Wanted wasteful waterfall
But the
Cataracts cascade certainty
Of a
Muted malignant masonry
For the
holy homicide hides
Behind the
Sky's skeletons slide
A heart
Damaged devoured dies.
noora@RAW Diamond© 09August2022 ______________ **Succulent**
Sipping sorrow
Of magical memories
Bathed in the
Dry desert deserted
you thrive in loose sand
blown behind beauty
sandstorms swirl
nostalgic heartache
and thrash the threshold
for a continuum does not exist
meshed madness misery
bleeds boldly
in icicle eyes
and the rain runs rampant round
your heart
but succulents never die
they thrive
with passion
firmly planted
in the land’s soul sand
never needing much
always reborn
from the teardrops
that the sun soaks
in its azure skies.
noora@RAW Diamond© 12September2022
Photo: Noora (Raw Diamond).
