Woke up this morning wanting a man
to love and to care and to give all he can
to tell me I am the star on his crown
his devotion to me will not waver nor drown.
Woke up this morning wishing I was
cuddled with passion my body reposed
in arms of beau nuzzled and stroked
this what I wished for as soon as I woke.
What is the fear that is raging within?
Who will quench the ache of my skin?
My crave and my need, my want and desire
who is the one who’ll extinguish my fire?
who’ll uplift me and my spirit inspire?
Woke up this morning alone in my bed
my pillow drenched with tears that I shed
how long must I be so ennui and forlorn
how many days will my sadness go on?
Woke up this morning wondering where
is the one I long for to love me and care
will he ever find his way over here
will his love be enough to scatter my fears?
Woke up this morning alone in my bed
tired and lonely and ever so sad
the day will progress regardless I reckon
still I wonder if today at my door love will beckon.
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©Yakira Shimoni Fulks
March 30, 1999 | Graymoor, IL
Monday Morning | Consequences
You’re a wonderful artist @Kira (Yakira) Fulks both poetry and painting/drawing flows so effortlessly from you 💞😇🖖
Wow! Now that is a beautiful picture of the longing for a deep and fulfilling love. Outstanding write! 👏🙏🌷
… whispering lines from morning pillows, alive in the world!
lovely lines indeed
Superbes lignes. Un esprit en brume si joliment écrit. Il n’est pas dur de s’identifier dans tes écrits. Je vais donc en écrire quelques lits…
Belle journée @Kira (Yakira) Fulks 🙇♂🌞🙇♂😘
Superb lines. A spirit in mist so beautifully written. It is not hard to identify yourself in your writings. So I’m going to write a few beds …
Nice day @Kira (Yakira) Fulks 🙇♂🌞🙇♂😘
No longer simmering! Boiling hot @Kira (Yakira) Fulks …a yearning and a burning
Wow! I mean Wow!! So Sensual and emotional. Soft and passionate! Sizzling! Hot and heavy!! Yet tender, and loving! Such yearning! I love a poem like this! Woke up my senses this morning! Kira! It’s a wonderful beauty! 😉🌹
Woke up this morning alone in my bed … and I stayed there, thinking, not doing nothing, waiting for a miracle … and my state of ennui was increasing … you just describe the way to reach and to stay on that …
Wonderfully expressed and captured prompt!!
Outstanding!!! You’ve brought joy to my morning!!
Beautiful!
Fantastic write, deep feelings show @Kira (Yakira) Fulks
Waking up to something different every day, our wants, wishes and hopes … a wonderful response to Greg’s prompt. Thank you.
Such a longing for that someone, beautifully done
Congratulations Kira! Your poem is a wonderful insight into your life and many will relate to feeling exactly the same at the moment. I loved every stanza!
Congratulations!
Sometimes our dreams are not fulfilled. Certainly you outline your desires here. As the poem progresses, I get the distinct feeling that things aren’t going to plan. A good read, well composed poem written with feeling.
Captures your feelings well within the rhyme…😎😎
A bed can be far to big a place to be alone especially if once shared. On the flip side of that having shared a bed for so long it is sometimes nice not sharing
So many dream, so many want… and its all about themselves. So few look through the eyes of the other to see what an other sees within… Sigh…
Goodness-ME, Kira 🎼
Your spot-on ‘n soft rhymes, smooth as warm honey flow, scintillating imagery, nudging urges, and vividly inviting metaphor are a sheer symphony of inviting inner-warmth and sensual enthrallment, that will have the poets here (perhaps, poetesses, too) queueing-up, elbowing each other to be first.
“Who will quench the ache of my skin?
My crave and my need, my want and desire
who is the one who’ll extinguish my fire?”
Ohhh-MY! Talk about “waking-up”, and not only You … whew*
To say the impact of your artwork is perfectly delicious and apropos to the nuances of this entreatingly luring, sensually irresistible moment dancing upon your page is a sheer understatement … what red-blooded romantic could resist painting their self there with You, answering to, filling and fulfilling your passionately ardent needs, wants, and desires.
If there were ever a question of your poetical acumen or ability to light-up a page, this heart/ body/imagination/soul thrumming piece will quickly dispel that notion. 😏
This is simply gorgeous; so much so I’ll be cooling-off for awhile to come … hugs for the distinctly caressed pleasure, Kira ⁓ Richard 🍃