[1] Her poetry dealt with many of the typical subjects of Soviet writing, such as the Communist Party and the country and its people.
According to her mother, three volumes of her verse were printed, and she had works published in newspapers both in the Turkmen SSR and in Moscow.
[3] In the winter and spring of 1971 Kekilova wrote to the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union complaining about conditions in the Turkmen SSR;[1] her report was 56 pages long, and was accompanied by an illustrated album.
[4] The party refused to act upon her complaints, ordering her latest volume of verse to be stopped before publication, and she was forced to leave her job despite the fact that she was the only support for her mother and son.
[2] She went to Moscow in search of assistance, but found none; she contacted the British Embassy for asylum, but received no response there, either.