shaimaa abdelkarim

photo by Shaimaa Abdelkarim

 

 

poem: Days in 

 

some days

i mostly wonder

when joy knocks 

would it smell like

 

a lily and jasmine musk perhaps 

 

i often ponder 

if joy is what today brings

let it come 

not too late, 

                for the sun sleeps

not too early, 

       when birds serenade all heed 

 

just in time,

when I’m still 

waiting 

with turmeric brewed

                

                my sunshine in a cup

 

let it be right by mid-day

when silence is vocal 

and i mostly wander  

the rest of to/day 

 

 

 

 

poem: a lullaby لويزة

 

up the dunes

goes the blues 

 

down the dunes 

hovering smooth

 

tummy sick 

sip and lick

 

lemongrass

honey brewed

 

calming through

revering  

 

a reverie 

for you and me.

 

 

 

 

Shaimaa Abdelkarim @shaimabdelkarim  is a PhD student mostly researching into resistance and idiosyncratic desires. She has some poems over Burning House Press and Silver Pinion. She is currently working on a guest-edited collection for Silver Pinion that will go online in May.