“Pull a puddle into your palm one sip will fill your mouth with poetry and quench the quest for art” from The Valley of Khayal - Wajiha Khalil in A KALEIDOSCOPE OF STORIES Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry…
“But they say souls meet Light miles before time Where we were all together In the covenant of promises That can never be broken By solid gold hearts Yes only my beloveds Were there Both fortunate and Less…
Ever since they cut me from the reed-bed Men and women have cried at my wail كز نيستان تا مرا ببريده اند در نفيرم مرد و زن ناليده اند kaz nayistan tā marā bobrīdeʾand dar nafīram mard o…
I want a breast torn, torn by separation That I may explain the pain of ardent longing سینه خواهم شرحه شرحه از فراق تا بگویم شرح درد اشتیاق sine khāham sharhe sharhe az ferāgh tā beguyam sharh-e dard-e…
“after the long night on the open plain where you gathered stones then slept out under the sky the lights exhausted but light after the long day’s standing at Arafat but moreso before your Lord hands lifted or…
“It’s like the Sun heating up all space And the people, the planets, orbiting with haste It’s like the sky on a darkened night And the pilgrim stars shining around it so bright It’s like a magnet that…
“You’ve nearly made it through To relief you never knew Just don’t get lost in Muzdalifa You called from the Great Plain Where the Mercy falls like rain Just don’t get lost in Muzdalifa There’s knowledge in your…
“There are secrets here for those who use reason look within for those treasures, that devotion jump into Abraham's sea which in turn flows into the Divine Ocean enjoying simplicity, peace, joy, equilibrium, and serenity” from Looking to…
"Never again will I open my heart to such suffering," you said. And so, you resigned yourself, you settled, you contented yourself with a shack in the middle of the desert of your life. No running water of…