Poetry-A-Day For Ramadan

Who We Be

Poetry A Day for Ramadan came about after instigator Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed started writing a poem a day for Ramadan after the first year her…

2017: Day 5

Where Words Visit

I live half my life everyday 
Use half my body 
I save the rest for later 
One lung, one kidney 
Half my liver
Two ventricles

2017: Day 4

WHAT HOLDS US INTACT, DESPITE OUR LONGING TO BREAK OURSELVES OPEN, TO RUN AWAY, TO DESCEND DEEPER INTO OUR OWN IMPERFECTION

2017: Day 3

Pangs

Why does love make you feel sick to your stomach
Worse than hunger pangs
Gnawing
Cravings that can’t be satisfied 
Malnourishment enveloped in insecurities and vulnerability
My longing heart yearns to be quenched
Aching with desire to drink from his source

2017: Day 2

Moon

The first night of Ramadan
and she the crescent moon smiles slyly off-kilter
like a devilish disappearing Cheshire cat 
resting on the dark branch of the Milky Way
or an angelic man on the moon one-eyed winking.
A sliver of light in the sky finally sited
she will wax till…

2017: Day 1

Haiku Style

Whatever slows your
pace, thank it. Thank it for new
nerves grown in the still.

— Naazneen Diwan

Saturday, May 27, 2017, 6:48 p.m.

You Can Do It Too

Salaams! We are back for another Ramadan. It is now the fifth year of our writing group, and it has grown to 55 Muslim-ish and Muslim adjacent folks. People have been resparked and slowly sharing their poetry and art. It has turned into quite the beautiful community space.