Short Story/Prose – Page 2 – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

I need

February 26, 2017March 2, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

I need: passion befuddles me yet draws me close. i miss the warm fire of desire, the sudden, bombastic blaze of passion that leaves me reckless, and the aftermath,–slick, cold skin, the laughs shared as our hands trace and linger. i am dizzy on you. rose-colored aviator shades when he tells me I’m beautiful, i [...]

Poetry, Short Story/Prose, Thoughtful, thoughts

Pain, Love, Depression, and Joy

November 8, 2016February 6, 2017by Mecca_Amirah1 Comment

“Everyone has written about pain; what makes it unique to you?” My pain is early, unbeknownst to my psyche until I became misinformed and mislead through others ambivalence. My pain levitates in the middle of two races. My pain is centuries long, my pain is past skin, hair, features, curves. My pain flickers and [...]

Poetry, Short Story/Prose, Thoughtful

This feeling…

November 2, 2016January 12, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

This feeling is almost like yellow-white lightening. An unnamed taste that cannot easily part from my lips, I crave the zest of this element yet, I cannot name the feeling it awakens within me. I will search the highest of tides and the lowest beams of yellow-eyed predators until I am able to name [...]

Poetry, Short Story/Prose

A Journey Through my Dreams

September 24, 2016January 12, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

For my creative writing class, we had to take inspiration from Elizabeth Bishop's price 12 O'Clock News! It was so difficult for me but I think I got the hang of it. Try it out for yourself! Read the poem–Bishop creatively describes the objects on her desk. How you describe each object is like a self-portatit [...]

Short Story/Prose

Ensnared

August 25, 2016January 12, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

She awoke in a forest glen, the sun bright and curious on her face. The treetops swayed above her, stray leaves detaching, dancing, spiraling as they lie around her. A bird sings from above, the song heavenly, completely devoid of sins and shame. The girl sits up, entranced by a noise, startling and sudden. The [...]