postcard poems

a life of writing

Is a poem ever good?

Oct 12 • 

oumaima

10

7

September 2025

at dawn

I am writing to you from these last painful days of summer. Days of letting go.

Sep 8 • 

oumaima

9

2

July 2025

beyond survival

I don’t want to survive in this world. I want to survive beyond it, to outlive it. I want the next one to arrive, and if our bodies don’t make it, I…

Jul 19 • 

oumaima

8

2

heat wave, magic spell

There are weeks you can feel the world shifting.

Jul 9 • 

oumaima

5

1

June 2025

why do you care so much?

I am 25 and I care too much. The world is burning, or life is too beautiful, but anyway I care too much.

Jun 26 • 

oumaima

8

1

how to live happily during a genocide

A pretty poem and then right to sleep.

Jun 15 • 

oumaima

12

1

the thread

How many people have painstakingly embroidered Palestinian poems onto pieces of cloth, calls for the ongoing slaughter to stop. The thread keeps…

Jun 6 • 

oumaima

6

May 2025

a generous green light

on friendship, intimacy, and salman toor's green drenched paintings

May 27 • 

oumaima

13

on the garden

Open up any person, and you might see a landscape.

May 21 • 

oumaima

4

on hereness

Stand anywhere on earth and you might be standing nowhere.

May 14 • 

oumaima

5

April 2025

room for joy

It is so thin, this space we are supposed to make a happiness out of.

Apr 20 • 

oumaima

13

an invitation

All writing is a question left unanswered.

Apr 15 • 

oumaima

5