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

The Ladies of Horror
Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!

Bilqis
by Sheikha A.

to giving Venus ‘Mars in Scorpio’

(i)

He is coming after her

like love torn to shreds.

(ii)

It didn’t take her much effort –

whirl of her musk-laced thunder

in his meadow of bruising blooms.

He was locked into the curls of her

lashes – vales of dragon-fire –

eyes coquettish furls of blood-roses.

She smelled of night jasmines

draped on the blade of a sword;

wild tulips renegading the rain.

Her smile, heat of a taming sun.

(iii)

They met like collision –

unknown with the known –

sway of her grace – mystique

– his senses snatched.

(iv)

She pounds petals on stone;

the potion has to be right.

Before he arrives – bolt

of wet silver – delving into her

like light in a star; immersed

like breath in life. Love began

like explosion – of bones

into flesh – feral fragrance

(v)

of her illusory-weaves.

She cannot fault this time.

Her cauldron seethes wild.

She chalks a protection belt.

(vi)

He has awakened – wet fur

ripping through his wails –

She is made of raw raindrops,

incandescent like fiery moon.

Her creation is complete;

unmistakable like his love –

undoable like her spell –

his breath heavy on her trail.

(vii)

His eyes are beams of starlight.

A thousand floating lanterns

illuming the night’s soul.

Her hair is auburn flames;

unbridled asteroid

crashing against gravity.

(viii)

She cannot hide. The rage of his

blood bursting inside his veins.

He is madness – black of his eyes

consumed by obscurity –

She smells of beauty shedding silk.

(ix)

Clouds burgeon like a kelpie –

his hands cup her slender neck.

She writhes to his rhythm –

smell of stale petals fill the wind.

Blood moon drops its foggy drapes;

bones echoing shrieks into midnight –

(x)

musk-laced storms

overcast with shredded starlight.

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!

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

Marge Simon says:

May 29, 2023 at 3:43 pm

Exquisite, just as everything else Sheikha A. pens! It’s like a painting come alive!

alexgrehyauthor says:

June 17, 2023 at 5:16 am

Wow! Such gorgeous imagery.