hajara abdul khader Poems

The world has lost a king.
Music is in chaos; it bewails his loss,
The one whose life was music.
All danced to his tune;
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The sky is dark, overcast with the cotton.
Wind blows hard raving against the Order.
A ship set sail along the face of troubled waters,
Compassed towards the core of ultimate hullabaloo.
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A swarm of darkness creeps into my mind,
Forming dunes of stinging chronicles,
Yearning all the while for my kind
To come rushing with their pinnacles
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I saw a rose with no thorns;
It grew from dirty ground.

Red as cherry,
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There was once a sun above me,
Dazzling my eyes with its glorious glare;
I took it for hope, ever-abounding hope.
I forgot that every sun sets at last;
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I stand upon a jutting stone
Sticking out from a cliff,
Overlooking the sea,
And the sky overhead.
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I meet countless everyday;
They fail me now and again.
I retreat.
But my day never dies;
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A new world is born everyday
Out of the corners of our eyes.

Things once seen pass away
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Dawn breaks with the fall on earth of life,
Take to water, ducks flock upto their lay.
Parts from stream, sticks out to knife,
From utmost naivete a duckling out of way.
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I


I don't know how it means to have one,
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