Regularcillo – Medina Tenour Whiteman
“I recognised that look like the Angel of Death brushed you aiming for someone else a little death that keeps you only just alive to notice the gap in your chest that lets every wind whistle through without…
Supplicate -25 Ramadan 1440 – Saraiya Bah
“they alternate from prostration to circumnavigation of their tasbih. at times, tears carve tracks on cheeks the hue of mahogany. shoulders shudder from swallowed grief. not wanting to wail as they weep. yet they still don’t break. just…
Human Beings -Abbas Mohamed
“The best thing we can do (for ourselves) is be The best thing we can be (for our souls) is empty To allow Divine Breath to fill in the empty spaces to remember us to express to us…
from Us – Asma Khan
“I turn and catch you looking unaware That pure, teasing, elusive gaze holding me in the lightest of embrace No longing or possession. just a secret truth that takes my breath away” from Us - Asma Khan in…
Renaissance Man – Mohammad Durrani
“Don't rush to define yourself! You spring from the Divine Ocean You are the cosmic big bang! Give yourself time” from Renaissance Man Mohammad Durrani in A KALEIDOSCOPE OF STORIES Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry Coming soon from…
Insaan – Matthew Bain
“we are the forgetting intimates of Allah, the ignorant go-betweeners of creation, would-be correlators of temporal with Divine. Wisdom courses nature’s veins, now all but over as we lay waste to heather hives with hegemonic heresies. Mottled butterflies…
Fate or defeat – Yasmine Ahmed-Lea
“To keep myself sane I fake that this is A promise of a full life All the while knowing It's work eat run Get a man get a wife Work eat bit of sun Read about that holiday…
The Cloaked Lovers – Arthur Skip Maselli
“Send my eyes to the gallows banish me from my city walls Muhammad was left by flesh and angels alike orphaned time again and again The silk road of love travels away from the heart and yet this…
Heirloom – Rashida James-Saadiya
“Somewhere there are tears and bombs rupturing the beauty of sacred land Somewhere there are boats filled with people carrying nothing except the gift of breath Somewhere there are fathers using every inch of their bodies to pull…