Raheema’s Poetry

Raheema’s Poetry Poetry, like Art surrounds us but fails to be recognized. Both powerful tools of expressions.

Poetry surrounds us in music & expressions particularly those found in literature Poetry is slowly becomming a “Lost Art.”

08/20/2026

Butterflies

I can’t help the butterflies,
The fluttering
In my stomach
As you put your hands
Around my waist
And kiss my lips
Trying to calm me down.
But I can’t help the nervousness
I feel,
In less than 24hours,
Less than a day,
You’ll be mine.
And I’ll be yours.
We'll become one
Not paper
Nor words of a minister
Will keep us together
As one for a
For a lifetime
But two hearts
That beats the same
That shares a love
Only known by few.
A love where friends
Turn into lovers
Then turn into the
Beautiful the bird
known as love
And soar off into together
Into the journey of life.©️Ra

08/11/2026

My Candle

I met an old woman today

I sat by her bed, held her hands

What’s your story?

Why are you here?

She looked at me

With love in her eyes

Little life left in her smile

Like you

I was young once,

Beautiful, vibrant,

The world my canvas

Now I'm tattered, torn and alone

You see the passage of time

Has not been the greatest of healer

And my story,

I cannot say, not yet anyway

So go, come back again someday

As I walked away...

I felt her pain

Reflected in my eyes, in my heart

You don’t know my story,

Someday you may, she said

But for now, I am not minister of my tales

It is mine to tell ... Yes

If I choose to tell it

Like a lighted candle

But Let it shine

Up above, Down below

Let it light up the skies.

Go your way

Let me go mine

Let my ominous tale shine

Let it light up the heavens above

The earth below

It’s my Light, My Story.©Ra

08/02/2026

Puppy Love

At 10 we caught fireflies in a jar
As we watch them light up the night
We held hands as we ran through
The corn fields
Chased butterflies
through the rice fields
Skinned our knees and comforted eachother on the river banks
Layed in the tall grass
And played house
As we slowly fell in love
At 15 we made a promise
To wait for each other
They all laughed and called it
puppy love
Said we’d never last
But our hearts
saw no one but eachother
Yeared only for eachother
20 years later as we rocked our
Little one to sleep
You once again
take me in your arms
As your kisses remind me
Just how far we’ve come
That our love
Was not a
Puppy Love!©️Ra

07/21/2026

Forever Love

Heart to heart
Lover to lover
Laying by your side
I recall a memory of long ago
Like a broken winged bird
Unable to fly
My spirit,
like my wing was broken
Ready to give up
you took me in
Gave me love
Mended my heart,
my pride,
my soul
now
falling so deeply in love with you
can’t imagine life without you
As my friend
my life’s partner
Forever by your side
I’ll stay!©️Ra

07/07/2026

Sentimental Me

Roses came to my door today
And a tear ran down my cheeks
As a memory of long ago
Crossed my mind.
A memory of long time past.
I remember
on a special day
Like today
When you bought me
A Single Red Rose
And you signed a card saying
My love, Always and Forever.
I cried at the memory,
Cause though it was just a
Single Red Velvet Rose
It meant more to me
Than the bouquet
Of Roses you sent me today.
I’m sentimental you see
And though it was Just
A single Rose
It held for me more love
Than the dozen Roses that came today.
Like your love,
The bouquet of Roses
Will whiter and die;
But my single Red Rose
Will stay with me forever
Like I hoped your love would
But …
That’s just wishful thinking
Just Sentimental Me.©️Ra

07/01/2026

Disclaimer: I own the rights to all poetry written and posted to my Facebook wall. The poetry posted to my wall does NOT in any way, shape or form reflect that of my personal life.

07/01/2026

A HEART

I know I shouldn’t be feeling the feelings I feel
I know I don’t have the right to have the feelings I have
Nor the right to beat as I do
I don’t have the right to love you as I do
But I can’t help what I feel
I can’t help but skip a beat
Each time you look into my soul
Each time you walk by
Each time someone speaks your name
For the thought of you is all that’s
Kept me beating all these years
I know they say you belong to another
But I can’t help but love you
Like you were only mine
I know I’m only a heart
And I’ve been broken a few times
I have a few scars in my quest for love
But this time I know I can’t go wrong
For I can feel another that beats
For love as I do
Another heart that wants to be loved
As I do
And I do believe that heart my darling
Belongs to you.
Come to me my love and we’ll beat
In rhythm forever and a day. ©Ra

07/01/2026

A Rich man’s Gold

A Rich man’s Gold or A Poor man’s Roses
Which way do we fall?
Do we go for the Rich man’s Gold?
Or the Poor man’s Roses?
I know a Rich man’s Gold would
Have me set for life
I would not need nor want for anything
Anything that is
…… but Love…
With a Rich man’s gold
I would have all that money can buy
With a poor man I’ll have little
But I’ll have a heart
Filled with love
A Rich man would buy me a dozen authentic Roses
Verses a poor man that would buy me a single paper Rose
A dozen authentic Roses will eventually lose its
Color, its sheen and its petals
A paper Rose will last a whole life thru
and be filled with all the love a heart can hold.
A Rich man can buy me a big house and a fancy car
A poor man would buy me a shack
But it would be a mansion
Because it would be filled with love and hard work
A Rich man would buy me the world
A poor man would make me his world
So which way do we fall?
Do we go for the Rich man’s gold
Or the poor man’s Roses
I know not what your choice would be.
I know I would chose to live my life
With a poor man
He may not gave me silver and gold
He may gave me twelve authentic roses
But he’ll gave me the one thing he holds
More sacred
He’ll gave me his heart,
He’ll gave me his love
Above all
He’ll make me his world
So choose wisely between the
Rich man’s Gold and The Poor Man’s Roses!©Ra

07/01/2026

My Heart’s voice

If my heart were able to speak
To have a voice it would say
I’m just me
I’m nothing special
I’m just a heart
A Heart that’s been broken
Been trampled on and walked on
A heart that’s been shattered
Why Do I cry you ask?
Well its cause I’ve been warned
Warned by thoughts, by instincts
By feelings that I was going to get hurt
As I’ve been there already but I didn’t learn
From it I had to go back so
Go back so I can learn the hard way
One more time.

I’m the voice that never listens
I saw the signs of heartache but I ignored it
I kept telling myself,
Heart you won’t get hurt, not this time
But I was wrong

So see I’m just a heart
I’m not perfect and now I’ll never be whole again
I’m tired of hurting, I’m tired of heartaches
And at times I can’t help but wonder why I’m still here
Why do I still beat, why do I still exist
For I’m a heart,
A heart that can only experience heartache
I’m not much you see,
I’m just me,
Just a heart that’s been used
Been hurt
Been trampled on
Been bruised
A heart that’s been broken too many times
A heart that’s been shattered beyond repair
And I’ll never be the same again
I’m just a heart
A heart that never listens
But loves too much…!©Ra

06/29/2026

Child’s Dream

Every little girl
Needs someone
they can talk to
Laugh and joke with
someone they can look up to
Tell their dreams to
someone that believes in them without a doubt
Every little girl needs that someone they can believe in
Someone that can Inspire their dreams
Give them hope, determination
Someone that
can hold their hands
And tell them
shoot for the moon and stars
if you miss I’ll be right here
Every little girl needs someone
To tell them the world is theirs to discover
To tell them
time will come
And time will go
But come rain or shine
I’ll always here for you
Every little girl needs someone
To teach them love is not just about
Yesterday, today or tomorrow
But love is an heirloom
To treasure
For this little girl
That person will always be you©️Raheema Ali

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