Poetry

The Ultimate Blackness & The Reason for Darkness

This poem and the explanatory passage that follows it are both from Charles Upton’s forthcoming book, ‘Islam: Outer Form and Inner Meaning’. The poem is written as if in the voice of Allah. Until you do My Will, I will oppress you. “Until you do My Will, I will...

Ukraine War Poems

What hatred would permit such cruelty?/ Might those who stand here be provoked to kill?/ A valve of anguish opens, another/ Shuts, disconnects, allows the blood to spill.