Dreamer

 

Looking out the window
Alia sees the sky
With clouds shaped like children
When its half past ten
She takes her math test-
They’re all right again

Looking out the window
A cat’s quick on the run
He has black and gray stripes
At ten minutes to one
Alia has all of her history done

Looking out the window
As a train pulls in the station
At twenty past one
She’s done Quranic recitation

Ayana

Ayana loves her mom and dad
Her cousins—yes, them too
But when she’s asked who she loves best
She says Allah, it’s You

After the Adhan

Jasmine saw a spider
Safiyyah saw a fly

Jasmine said jump
Safiyyah said how high

Jasmine tried to touch the moon
Safiyyah almost reached the sky

Jasmine made wudu
Safiyyah made salah

A Sword for Eid

Maliq is a smart Muslim boy
With a shiny gray sword for a new Eid toy–
As his parents gave it to him
He told them his new sword
Could scare away jinn

Ayana’s Ramadan

There was a little girl who lived in Miami
Her name was Ayana
And she wore pink pajamies

She went to the beach with her mom one day
She yelled “here I come!”
Jumped in and swam away

Ayana swam so far
Ayana swam so fast
That she landed in Morocco,
Ran to grandad, broke her fast 

Umm Umar © 2007

The Earth

 

 The earth shakes or is still
In accordance to Thy will

The earth melts and spews and flows
Where You would have it so

The earth is rocky, fertile, barren or sand
According to Thy Plan

The earth towers above or burrows beneath the sea
Oh Allah, to please Thee

UmmUmar © 2007

 

Nature

A cloud heavy with fear of Thee
Rains down its tears upon the earth

A tree with great hope lifts its boughs
                           In a dua of submission to Thee

                           The sea ebbs and flows, never still,
                           Ever obedient to Thy will

                           The sands try futilely to flee
                            In the winds before Thy wrath

UmmUmar © 2007