SUN POTION
Possess (v.)
Late 14c. “To hold, occupy, reside in.”
Past participle stem of possidere,
“To be master of one’s own.”
To build a home-
Shelter, refuge.
Teach your children:
Your body is a temple.
My temple is a sea cave on the coast
of Southern Greece.
Inland,
Trees produce lemons as big as your brother’s head.
Other days,
My temple is a funeral home in central Baghdad.
Realizing, becoming
Prayer song.
I find that I am one part oil,
Mostly water.
Soft palms,
Minerals.
Sun Potion
Layla Mortadha
Born in 1999 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Medium
Poem
Year
2018
Description
Sun Potion is a poem I wrote during a creative writing class in college. It is about my identity as an Iraqi-American woman living in the Midwest with ties to ancestry and stories of immigration from around the world.
Instagram: laylamortadha
جرعةُ الشمس
ليلى مرتضى
ولدت عام ١٩٩٩ في تولسا ، أوكلاهوما و تعيش في تولسا ، أوكلاهوما.
الوسط
قصيدة
السنة
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الوصف
جُرعة الشمس " Sun Potion " هي قصيدة كتبتها خلال فصل الكتابة الإبداعية في الكلية. وترتبط القصيدة بهويتي كامرأة عراقية أمريكية تعيش في الغرب الأوسط ولديها روابط مع اسلافٍ وقصص عن الهجرة من جميع أنحاء العالم.
