The Voices-Sadiqullah Khan

A word on The Voices

Covers motif green leaf 

bind five hundred plus leaves

of great poesy

The tome of a book

drenched me with speaks

some poet's not others 

in complexity 

often simplicity

of music, harmony

texture, dichotomy 

of private and public

personal and not so

lives and experiences

If Shakespeare was master of human nature 

Khan is master of studious observations 

interweaving eastern with western 

Enjoyed all poems loved several

Specially Balcony-s

for they feathered as in tickled

my inner Urdu

charu

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Sadiqullah Khan responded:

-am high amongst

Could words be more potently drugged
And feathers have weight of ages,
Balconies sung to some dame,
Flowers on the chiseled neck drape,
Love be as ardently scribed –
Of lately I wondered to be face
To face with immense beauty
And not knowing wherefrom the path,
To the destiny, for destiny is you.
Could it bleed in my eye for want of tear,
Or galore laughs loud echo the ambience
And between us the distance be written,
With fragrant lines, and trees laden.
Ah! If I be dead for the dread of love,
Then from the flowers in bosom I live,
Nor the anguish of knowing and not
Knowing, for silence is greater than music.
O lace your tender softness around,
My face gleams with shineness of sun,
Such love is bestowed upon me –
That am victor in defeat, am high amongst.

-To Charu Gandhi on her poem on my book The Voices.

Sadiqullah Khan
Lahore
May 28, 2016.