flowers – Page 6 – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

inflorescence

December 30, 2017December 31, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

when i imagined you, i made you taller, broader, louder. i made you with wings, with hair to your waist, breasts round and soft. i made you me. i made you greater. i lost faith in your ability to please me, so instead i dreamed of me. —i dreamed of me inflorescence is a poetry [...]

Poetry

a day

October 28, 2017October 25, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

a day spilling with languid words and idle rhymes. a day that speaks with forked tongues and vivid minds. today we celebrate the words are hearts are too timid to speak, today we give voice to thoughts we are unprepared to think. happy national poetry day to the dreamers who need only a pen to [...]

Poetry

my magic

October 25, 2017October 25, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

why do i doubt my magic, when there is more to me than flower petals and raw poetry? 💕✨

Poetry

you should have

October 25, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

you should have held me close, before i learned how to fly. i am gone now, dreaming in the sky. every cloud greets me with easy smiles and riddles both curious and sly. every bird swims with me, soaring through riptides and horizons dyed in sienna and goldenrod. you were foolish to love me and [...]

Poetry

mercy

October 4, 2017October 13, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

you decayed, slowly. dripping all over my window-still, you lingered. i should have shown you mercy; you drooped, you wept, i watched idly, i dreamed breathlessly. i never knew, the exact time of your death...🌙🌸 @amateur_poet {check out MORE} https://www.instagram.com/p/BZuQIVAhvcS/?taken-by=amateur__poet