Behind the Façade

Behind the Façade is a poetry collection of clarity, conscience, and uncommon emotional intelligence. In these poems, Camille Delaquise writes with a voice that is at once intimate and unflinching, turning her gaze toward the inner life and the wider world with equal conviction. What emerges is a body of work that asks readers to look beyond surfaces — beyond identity, assumption, power, fear, and social conditioning — in search of the deeper thread that binds us to one another.

Moving between the personal and the political with remarkable ease, the collection explores connection, beauty, justice, grief, tenderness, resilience, and moral courage with rare directness. These are not decorative poems, nor evasive ones. Camille’s strength lies in her ability to make poetry feel both reflective and urgent: a place where philosophical questioning meets lived experience, and where the search for meaning becomes an act of resistance in itself.

There is deep humanity at the centre of Behind the Façade. The collection is animated by a belief in shared existence — in the idea that empathy, thoughtfulness, and honest self-examination are not luxuries, but necessities. Whether writing about sorrow, social division, love, alienation, or hope, Camille returns again and again to what is essential: our responsibility to see clearly, feel deeply, and remain open to one another.

Lyrical, intelligent, and quietly radical, Behind the Façade is a collection for readers seeking poetry that does more than decorate a page. It speaks to the heart, but it also challenges the mind. These are poems that invite reflection, reward rereading, and linger long after the final line.

Behind the facade
To love another
Lines and layers
Addiction – the other side
Friendship is…
Sorrow
The rise of hope
The social experiment
Just a dreamer
Further perception
Misfit
A moment of clarity
Should we fight?
Saying no
Power of authority
Letting go
Detached
A theory on conscience
A time well spent
Blush
Hidden
Eradication of absurd wealth
The beauty that is found
Poetry lives
Not perfection
Apathy
Solitary confinement of those left behind
The truth cannot be forgotten
No integrity to their written word
Blind obedience will not do
Consumed
Evil does not know its own name
Rainbows and sunshine
Nothing new
Constantly entertained
The unknown
About that bird that sings
The artful way
Asleep at the wheel
Public opinion
Love
Fear of failure
A poem to brighten the day
What would you say if you knew?
Encouragement
Don’t take me to be a fool
I am saddened to have grown
Renting time
Experience forms understanding
The alien refugee
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Welfare diversion
The nature of creation
What a pity
No box to tick
Coming home