Ladies of Horror Flash Project – #Horror #author Sheikha A. @Darc_Nina #LoH #fiction

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Roksana
by Sheikha A.

to giving Venus a Moon

By Milky Way, brimming over

she watches his moon-body

slide down the neck of night –

her thick amber sky sinking

graceful bands of cosmic waste:

drifting elegant disaster: her beauty

mirror-vapour he dared to near –

her moon – she told him he didn’t

have a soul – born with black blood –

his eyes white flames of ice: Ignatius;

she’d repeat his name into his ears

so it never left his mind; lava rain –

waves of morphed glass – her body

white as salt when they swam dead

stars; he straddled her heat once

and his skin peeled like rubies.

She blows cobwebs into corridors

of his memory, clogs his pores

with flesh of delusion; his time

moving faster than hers – storms

of his defiance. Moons don’t exist

on her, but he doesn’t believe he is

orbit debris, broken and infinite –

glimmering sulphur, acid diamond

that refused to merge. By the body

of fire, her path can never be trekked –

he belongs there as a distant eclipse;

she as Ishtar – flower of Venus.

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!

3 Responses to Ladies of Horror Flash Project – #Horror #author Sheikha A. @Darc_Nina #LoH #fiction

afstewart says:

May 28, 2022 at 5:21 pm

A fabulous poem.

Marge Simon says:

May 28, 2022 at 5:52 pm

Sheika, your poetry always sweeps me away!

alexgrehyauthor says:

May 31, 2022 at 8:29 am

Wonderful imagery which fills your poem with wonder and intrigue