Naveed Khalid Poems

No one else except you
can be in this state of mind;
and who will understand
that there is no one awaiting you
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While where e'ery groaning heart to a close afraid
that bewailing night asleep,
the stars in secret influence comment;
of fervent looks this world to my mind still,
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Of compassed ark by the sea-ashore
that bright-lit mirror,
too, but shows not half thy part,
so thinly wrapped around my head
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Let the world know this that by time
nothing remains forever;
but by love what you think
is so greatly blessed,
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I am an amateur poet:
I've been doing poetry in my head
since childhood,
but know not if it's e'er going to end,
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Oh, woman of such plaintive looks,
a secret winding-stair unfolds,
many a broken heart to a close afraid,
all dressed up in her thought, my mind,
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Must I through the staircase window
of the wall on high,
hide from eternals this world forlorn;
of untread places far-off beyond the sunrise,
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Me too hath loved thee more than I
against all odds, all vicissitudes of the sky
to prove thee virtuous where my head is,
of no wit to my mind still but pure heaven,
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Me alone upon the road to Denver hills,
near the pine forest,
much toiled by day's labour by the sea-ashore,
half-dumb, half-deaf to the ear in my shipwrecked dreams,
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Nothing has changed since then,
the day you departed,
away from this fedora of your dream;
many a maiden garden beset ere thine eye,
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