I was trying to be clever, but guess who/what the speaker is! I crave your love, deep and ancient like the beating heart of the sea. Awash with tender feelings for you, I am held adrift by the waves of hesitancy. From my standpoint, I covet your touch With a madman's ease-your beauty a kaleidoscope [...]
Author: Mecca_Amirah
The Dead Sea
Crashing waves smell of brine and lost legends, mermaid tails and selkie skins, fevered voyages, pirate's booty–bearded men and women with gold teeth and jewels on their mind, harrowing adventures, navigators with sunburnt skin, drunk on the wine of the ancient souls that watch from below–trip as they follow–eyes narrowing on the X–bones rise from [...]
Before the Stars
A spiraling nebula, unfurling, blooming magentas and daunting cyans- A tale of intergalactic passion, lusty voyages, rugged advances, Star-crossed loves; before the stars, a green girl with A brush of stardust in her eyes And lies, fragrant and heavy on each and every taste bud. Lies were her weapon, naivety her choice of drug- Passionless murmurs, [...]
The Forest of Yesterdays
Babygirl can you recognize the language of the tress, the whispers of leaves, the laughter of the wind, the waves of warmth from the summer breeze? Bare feet touch grassy green, roots embed as they lock in– feeding as I grow, I suckle the trickles of savory, sweet sap, I gnaw on the ripe, poisonous [...]
A Poem For My Mother
A poem for my mother, Seems almost too grand, too precious to Solely place on parchment. Watch as I etch my love for her across the night sky-each tear she shed holding me tight, catching me as I fell, praying for my health, loving me from afar-each tear, I name a star, for her love [...]
Mecca-Amirah Jackson 