When Allah Inspires Your Tongue To Ask, Know That He Wants To Give. 

i have decided by Mary Oliver

Richard Siken

from Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

“He looks through the wound of my life like it’s light. So I let him.”

— Omotara James, from “Pier 52”

“To try to not be more interesting but be more interested” literally changed my life perspective btw

Instructions for the Lovers, Dawn Lundy Martin

*finn voice* you are my best friends in the world!

“Shame thrives in silence, and wants more of it. The language of shame is silence. I wanted to incorporate silence, and silencing, into a poem, and was able to approximate that by blacking out language. What is unsaid becomes a visible absence—the hole I was writing around.”

— Leila Chatti, from an interview with Sneha Subramanian Kanta in Parentheses Journal, Issue 10 (via skgroutpoetry)

isn't it beautiful that in Islam the focus is on the intentions because when your actions get misunderstood by people Allah will reward you for your intentions.