Wishes for Friends – Yasmine Ahmed-Lea
“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…
“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…
“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…
“Would you weave a tapestry with the threads of your soul? Would you paint the future with your light? Would you walk through the burning fire of my passion Would you cleave through the darkest of my night?”…
from The Beloved - Paul Abdul Wadud Sutherland in A KALEIDOSCOPE OF STORIES Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry Coming soon from Lote Tree Press
“Hager will seek to quench my thirst: run – from Triumph to Disaster, run – from Disaster to Triumph, until I run from I until I until I resist I until I desist I until I learn the…