Maghreb Magic

For a poetry group they said for Halloween submit your scariest poem. So I wrote this one in 2010.

Time has passed and I have healed.

But the magic and the melodies of the Maghreb have been woven into my story .

They have weavers there: Morocco,Egypt,Tunisia,Algeria each alive with its own haunting flavor.

Spells and spices, the beat of the drum, camels and cackling calls, souks and assassins, mosques and magicians are entwined in the culture,

The people of the desert know the power of the wind and have knowledge of the sands. Tribal wars and glories before we were even an idea here in the land of the free.

They come here and some swim in our melting pot and others cannot break themselves free from the dark chains of history, dripping with blood and buried in the sand.