Tag: Enas Suleiman
-
The NWN Feature: { Enas Suleiman }
This month’s feature poet is one of the guiding forces behind the establishment of Nas with Notepads. Enas Suleiman’s voice carries a special blend of romance and realism. NWN interviewed Enas to get a closer look at the poet and her creative process. 1. When did you start writing? I started writing when I was…
-
Summer of 95
by Enas Suleiman Ants marched through the cracks of the black dotted ceramic floor I watched them in sympathy knowing it would be their last venture. I untangled the green water hose and gave them my heartfelt condolences as the gush of angry water drowned their minute bodies. The smell of sand and water rose…
-
A Tribute to Nas With Notepads
by Enas Suleiman It’s been a year Of words forming from the depth of the two Niles Flowing to merge into a poem. A poem of tribes originating from East, North and West A poem of identities stamped in foreign land That are here, in this space, as one Nile. To Sara Elhassan, whose creativity…
-
In This Park
by Enas Suleiman In this park. The grass stands erect in the presence of my bare feet It doesn’t bow Nor does it kneel It just…stares then sways in tickle attacks. I submit. I have no choice but to kneel to it as I explode into successive giggles that only children grasp. In this park.…
-
Dream and Live
by Enas Suleiman Samia Yusuf Omar was a young Somali athlete who participated in the 2008 African Championships, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and was hoping to prepare in time to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She drowned earlier this year trying to reach Italy to search for a coach. …
-
I am still mourning you
by Enas Suleiman Eid was always your favourite holiday – colourful teyab, extravagant jewelry, fancy shoes It was also your worst – screaming children, ka’ak fingers, stained sheets And when family rounds came you claimed the evil eye would haunt us for too much beauty shouldn’t ride in one car Eyes rolled, mouths laughed, but…
-
To Sarkozy
by Enas Suleiman The absurd words like stones that you threw Flew towards me causing my veil to flow from the blow As they twisted around me, through me like a cyclone Oh how I wish from your ridiculously high throne, you are thrown Shown to the gates of the unknown Overthrown and alone Yes…