Let’s Run Away

Let’s Run Away

Let’s run away just you and I and climb above the hills from where we’ll call the earth to stop and cleanse itself from ills. Below us mountains will burn and smolderin fumes of orange glowand at the grand cross of Here and Therewill throw a wish to sow....
I Give You Love

I Give You Love

You give me lovethat swells with hopewith joy and trustyou help me cope.I give you lovedressed in gownsthe splendor of my soula love that singshymns and psalmsa love that heardyour longing calls.*©Yakira Shimoni FulksSeptember 11, 2021 | OC, CaliforniaPhotography Asaf...
If I could

If I could

If I could crawl and curl inside your mind or crouch behind the pupil of your eye I’d probe each tiny detailI would become a sleuth I’d learn all about the way you see the truth. I’d catch each fleeting moment to see so many thingswhich are buried in...
Brown Hairstreak Farfalla

Brown Hairstreak Farfalla

Brown Hairstreak farfalla skipped by the sea she fluttered and flapped and buzzed like a bee over dry shrubby bushes sharp spiny whorled leaves that coiled and looped on the ridged rocky reef.She sniffed stiff greenthreadshoneybush caramel and sweet-scented thymeand...
From Sea to Shining Oceans

From Sea to Shining Oceans

America America may God protect your shores from sea to shining oceans oh, hear our prayers and calls we wish to fly and glide as seagulls side by side— to live at last in liberty and justice and with pride. * ©Yakira Shimoni FulksJuly 29, 2021 | Crystal Cove,...
Before My Eyes

Before My Eyes

Before my eyes old pictures flee a red brick house on shaded street a midday sky of crystal blue a single rose bush and birds that flew.Echoes heard from far off pastall the whys we dared not asksentiments that once were feltand love that thawed to slowly melt. How...