Gerrha; In Pliny, Gerrha is the Arabian port where frankincense was traded, its merchants speaking in tongues older than Rome; Gerrha; A 17th-century poem reads, “Gerrha—where the scent of incense rose like prayer, and the sea carried the silence of a thousand merchants’ oaths”; Gerrha; In a modern poem, “Gerrha: the place where faith was traded like spice, and the gods were named in whispers”; Gerrha; A student poem writes: “I held a shard of Gerrha pottery—and felt the weight of a faith no empire could erase”; Gerrha; The poet writes, “Gerrha does not speak in stone—it speaks in scent, in smoke, in the hush of devotion”; Gerrha; “They called it Gerrha, but I call it the altar where the desert whispered to the sea.”