In the Dark of the Night

In the Dark of the Night

In the dark of the night she awoke in a sudden and turned on the light by her bed─there by the window lay the flowers he sent herbut it was him she wanted instead. Behind a waning moon a lonely star blinked brightlyand wishes filled her heart with desirearoused by...
There Is Light

There Is Light

I am proud to be a contributor in Business Standard News Thank you to the editors for the invitation My first poem THERE IS LIGHT is now published in the Arts and Entertainment section There is light and there is shadow for every act there is a price some storms end...
On the Seventh Day

On the Seventh Day

On the seventh day He called it quits He got so tired of hypocrites He gave them all He had to give the Heavens, Earth—a place to live a garden full of lovely things where they could roam like queens and kings instead, they took bait from sneaky’s mouth and blew it...
And a Snake Came Between Them

And a Snake Came Between Them

And a snake came between them in the garden in the darkslithering on his smelly belly fast as cunning scheming shark. Deep in grass he jerked and heaved singing praise with sweetened tongue of a maiden bare and beauty who soaked his songs into her lungs. And her beau...
Color of the Heart

Color of the Heart

It’s not the color of the skin that matters but the color of the heartit’s not where you have come from but where you set to start. It’s not the things you worship or the stuff you flaunt around but the words you speak to others that make you wear a crown. It’s the...
Curves

Curves

It wasn’t just the roundness of her curves that captured his mind but the contours of her imagination.*©Yakira Shimoni FulksOctober 30, 2021 | OC, California