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buttery spring

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

buttery spring has come to lick it’s cracked lips. buds are beginning to poke their heads from behind nature’s bosom. and me? me, im soaking it all in. the harmony; a concert of wide smiles and insects that shutter at night. pay the pipper to play my favorite song. lay your hair down and let [...]

Poetry

plight

March 13, 2018March 13, 2018by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

heavy with words, but light from plight, dash away the tears because everything will eventually be set right. a rib cage cracked open, woven fingers and slices that taste like dizzy wine, bite down and scream. eternity bleeds from your eyes, immortal, the earth is your kingdom. command the clouds to weep. the earth to [...]

Poetry

winter’s grip

March 13, 2018March 13, 2018by Mecca_Amirah2 Comments

winter’s grip is reluctant to let go; a middle child abandoned by spring and fall, winter tears melt on the cheek of summer children and splatter their icy kisses on a bank of fresh snow❄️

Poetry

you woke something inside of me

March 6, 2018March 5, 2018by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

you woke something inside of me; something slumbering beneath a cloak of my own insecurities and doubts. such trivial sights were once mundane and pedestrian but now, now i take pause and contemplate everything around me. stories can be woven in every being, every element, every damning breeze: you have corrupted me. you opened my [...]

Poetry

maybe if i

February 27, 2018February 26, 2018by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

maybe if i lived in a city where leaves never expire and the waters tremble and sigh, maybe i would always find solstice knowing that every day will be the same. paradise should sound appealing but isn’t strife what births my creative might? would i be able to write so hauntingly, so real, so open [...]