Ramadan Poems
Poems by Christopher Patrick Nelson
The following are pieces written about Ramadan by the poet Christopher Patrick Nelson. During Ramadan Muslims fast from food, drink, and sex during daylight during the entire month.
Dead Alive
By Christopher Patrick Nelson
Spirit lives without the needy flesh.
Let me deaden members and so test
Otherworldly pleasures. Empty thrills,
Yet more empty I am; though you pale,
Held beside the rosary and fast,
Parties, dance bars, I am yet more pale.
Not to take of food or drink till dark,
Not to bite my brother's absent back,
In the Holy Month, chills vice's blood.
What the wraiths know, living ghosts Ð I, too,
Know, enchaining this my body, Beast,
The usurper É with my cold, cold hands. 1
Breaking the Fast
By Christopher Patrick Nelson
The chicken-riddled brown basmati rice
Had spice; we wrapped beloved oven-baked
Naan bread around the beef and bones where there
Was marrow to be sucked. The spinach clung
To tongues like a communion wafer Ð white
Rice pudding cooled the curry, sweet relief.
O taste and see Ð the Merciful 1 is good:
He could have hooked us up to feed
Us doormat-flavored mush for evening meals Ð
Not delicacies, dishes, steaming heaps.
1 The Merciful is one of the 99 Names of Allah.
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