The Precipice Camille The Precipice Camille

No one’s property

It took generations

Without scratching the surface

I know of three, 

I know there was more

Many came and went 

Many had their names erased

My strength built over centuries

Waiting patiently

I have learnt I am the past

How arrogant I have been

Knowing nothing of waiting

I took it, as if it was mine

Although alone we never stand

Generations pulsing through my veins

I am not myself today

I am the collective yesterday

Loudly crashing in

Undeterred

I’m here

And I can declare I belong to none

A woman built from the scars of history

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in The Precipice, Camille’s third contemporary poetry collection. No one’s property explores inherited identity, historical erasure, and female self-possession — reclaiming the self not as an isolated individual, but as a living force shaped by generations and belonging to no one.

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Rise Camille Rise Camille

Female voices 

My voice

Sounds female

My mind

Is of the humankind

Female voices

Misogyny denied

Tried to hush

Built a barricade

Female voices

Rise

Unapologetic

For this disruption

My voice is not alone

It has been raised by the past

Connected to the present

Spoken for the future 

Imagining a peaceful world

Women’s voices are heard

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in RISE, Camille’s second contemporary poetry collection. Female voices speaks to the collective force of women’s expression — affirming female speech as intergenerational, defiant and necessary in the ongoing struggle against silencing, exclusion and misogyny.


This poem is available as a contemporary poetry print on textured recycled card.

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Behind the facade Camille Behind the facade Camille

The social experiment

Take away the scales

Add a boy and a girl

Place one in front of the other

Blind the boy with sugar

Tie the girls hands

Bake the boy in golden sunshine

Beat the girl down and leave to rise

Measure only the material

Add judgement to the girl

Add praise to the boy

Discard cause and effect

Walk away from the results

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in Behind the Facade, Camille’s debut contemporary poetry collection. The social experiment speaks to the manufactured nature of gender inequality — exposing how praise, restriction and bias are unevenly assigned, then falsely treated as proof of natural difference.

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Rise Camille Rise Camille

Female Voices

It All Begins Here

My voice

Sounds female

My mind

Is of the humankind

Female voices

Misogyny denied

Tried to hush

Built a barricade

Female voices

Rise

Unapologetic

For this disruption

My voice is not alone

It has been raised by the past

Connected to the present

Spoken for the future

Imagining a peaceful world

Women’s voices are heard

~ Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in RISE, Camille’s 2nd poetry collection. This poem Female Voices speaks to feminist continuity — the understanding that each voice carries the strength of those who came before it. It honours intergenerational resistance and collective memory.

This poem is available as a contemporary poetry print on textured recycled card.

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