Mahfooz Ali Poems

I have forgotten simple needs,
picking fallen fruit on sunlight,
wandering in wildflower meadows,
So, now I stand at the edge of my memory,
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I found the road
that was left behind
and none the worse for wear
or time...
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You told me to do this, you told me to do that,
If I don’t agree, you resort to combat.
You did not like my friends; you did not like my girl friends,
When you had an opinion, you never shy
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Lost in a world I do not know.
I am a child, who is not that old.

Young, but yet wise be
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While sitting alone in my thought's today,
I wonder what I am thinking,
Of dreams and hopes I yet can live or of yesterday's?
The dreams I live forever,
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If I had known
Whittle a stick
Way ward heart
Scintilla of magic
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I took it upon myself one day,
To fill a bowl with sky
I scooped the vast space with a spoon,
The sparkling blue stars brought tears to my eyes.
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I am a fearsome viking,
Upon the stormy seas,
Sailing in my gravy boat
Across the Bay.
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Sitting alone -
With two trees:
Black trunks, horizontal branches
Stretch a pattern on the sky,
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I Imagine a paper that is unstained in ink
And I have given a day in forever to think.
My pencil is sharpened, My mind is alight,
And yet I cannot think of something to write.
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