The Ladies of Horror
Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!

affirmation
by Sheikha A.

blue flames gridlocked –
dragons birth – in a cove
of fountain and large trees,
he keeps her bare

like the skin of avenged
thorns, the flames have
aligned to the blast of
a howling galaxy

it is time to bring her alive –
many lovers – but one with
release; she slakes his jaw,
a mutable corpse

organs banish his veins,
creepers coil his residue,
her love intense like heat
in a dragon’s egg –

birth is without labour,
she pecks on their shells
the way his teeth fall,
outside is a glow-burst

tower; the candles crawl to
him – ghost lovers – charmed
pendulums dangling over his
body, his skull watches

her slithering to him, agile
like amiable trail of fire, she
of many concubines, his room
of dragons, nymph fork-

tails; their eyes wild berries,
blue streams on smoke-
limbs – the way he comes alight –
they watch as she mounts

Fiction © Copyright Sheikha A.
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from author Sheikha A.:

Nyctophiliac Confessions:
Poems by Sheikha A. and Suvojit Banerjee

“The night is cold enough to inspire poetry,” says Sheikha A. in her poem, “Reading My Bones.” This is the basis of Nyctophiliac Confessions – poems that are introspective and luminal, poems that require a certain amount of silence and space to be fully formed and appreciated. Reading these poems, I imagined that they were the kind of poems that assert themselves unbidden during a bout of insomnia. (A nyctophiliac being someone who loves the night or loves darkness).

Nyctophiliac Confessions is the 17th installment of Praxis’ chapbook series and contains twenty-six poems written by two poets, Sheikha A. and Suvojit Banerjee, interspersed with abstract paintings by Robert Rhodes.

Available Here!