Gathered Daniel Thomas Dyer Who were you, dear messenger, in the Ulu Cami Mosque,surrounded by the Names of God gathered on the walls? Kneeling in zhikr, I felt your hand on my shoulder, your gravelly Turkish (I didn’t understand) whispered in my ear. You looked like a grandfather I’d once drawn, with your…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AqOIug2gHI On April 6th, 2025, the Ecstatic Exchange and Lote Tree Press held a live poetry reading for the winners, judges, and some of the shortlisted poets of the inaugural Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Ecstatic Poetry Prize, judged by…
The Name of God came haunting down the halland dazzled all our eyes and ears andhearts, and made us swoon into this hard physical life,and we’ll be wakened and called back and then we’ll leave this world asthings…
Ramadan arrives like a guestyou think might be difficult:disrupting cherished routinesmaking too many demandsoffering not enoughgood conversationstaying too long.then you find thatby letting go of what you thinkand who you arethe guest becomes the hostand offers youa…
Mabrouk, congratulations to our winners! 🆠Since we had so many strong entries for the Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Ecstatic Poetry Prize, of almost 500 poems, it was so hard to select a top three that we created a…
Leave me in a quiet place to pray Where I can receive the energy To face the new day A place close to nature Re-vi-tal-i-zing Ox-y-gen-a-ting Calm-ing Leave me there early in the day Leave me alone…
Nana Asma’u (1793-1864) was a poet, educator and activist who wrote poetry in Arabic, Fulfulde and Hausa. She was the daughter of Uthman dan Fodio and was raised in a scholarly environment that valued the education of…
Uthman dan Fodio opens one of his most famous and widely recited poems, Al-Dāliyya, written in 1772 (1188AH) when he was just twenty years old, expressing his longing to visit the Prophet’s tomb in Medina. It is…
I stand facing Mecca the house all around me parallel with everything hands up to my ears the Prayer begins Hands across chest time-space capsule surrounds me no god but Allah all Other forgotten Here’s eternity’s signature signed…