Be Fuel or Be Ash

Reena R Posted On March 8, 2022

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When a woman loves,

she does it with a power far beyond her

No damp firewood, fallen trees, or swept up dry twigs will do for her

She begins with everything new

She starts with herself

She invents burning

The lighted matchstick goes down her gut, she sets herself aflame,

her skin spreads over red coals

She tends the fire between her breasts and thigh trunks

like a god of the underworld

If you stamp out these kinds of wildfires, you become ash

trying to extinguish a woman

The submission is a part of International Women’s Day Celebration 2022 by Rhyvers Media Group

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Author

Reena R

Reena R. is a poet/writer from India, currently living in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates). Her poems have been published in several anthologies and journals. She is the Destiny Poets UK's Poet of the year for 2014 and one of the editors of The Significant Anthology released in July 2015. She won awards at ‘World Union Of Poet’s’ poetry competition, 2016 and at "As You Like It International Poetry Contest’. She won the Reuel International Prize for poetry, 2018.