“Africa is My parentage .... this place Is not my home I abide In a land designed .... by men Who hate my 'tone May the blood of my antecedents Bless my seed .... and may it be Their defense And may that blood Forever protect .... their truth And their innocence *Excerpt from: Jacob's Ascent, New Collected Poems by Mekael © Mekael Shane, 2019” Honoring PeoplePrayerfulOdeAncestral ContinuumElegiac Stanzas Author:Mekael Shane
“As We Sail By We float Through purple velvet skies Out where, black holes are born And the Milky-Way dies We fly Through purple hazed skies Out where, nebulas fade And an apricot sun spies We coast Through purple blue skies Out where, the platinum moon sits and Supernovas explode as we sail by Excerpt from: Exegesis, a Decade of Poetry, by Mekael © Mekael Shane 2009” PoetryPoetry QuotesCreative WritingLove PoemsMekael ShaneElegiac Stanzas Author:Mekael Shane