**poet Laureate Visits Battle Field Poem by Sadiqullah Khan
**poet Laureate Visits Battle Field
After “killing time” a thousand times
The poet laureate shall visit soldiers
Wearing a war arsenal shall he look
Morale and repeat Kipling’s “If” if he
Shall the ugliness be transfused more
When not the coincidences in “beautiful her”
With a night vision he shall see the war
As from a gunship the homeless run
Shall not to the poet happen into the doom
The celebrity on the high tide of air in blades
Some new arrows in display this time
His favorite pieces the one “sherry” naught forget
The poet laureate shall chronicle “Homeric odysseys”
Bravery of dead soldiers few tears on way back
He had seen him dying in front he shall tell
To the love of the soldier with poetic fervor
What price is yours for writing my miseries
When you shall recite to the world my wounds
With mock sadness holding your breath
With high colors you shall display the laurels
(On news item that poet Simon Armitage has been engaged by BBC to visit Afghanistan)
27/5/2009
P S: Simon Armitage is a contemporary British writer of verse and prose. He is author of a number of books and is a literary figure.
A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events..your piece is not a fallacy, it expresses real situation as shown and written in this piece of yours, , , naizz
What price is yours for writing my miseries When you shall recite to the world my wounds With mock sadness holding your breath With high colors you shall display the laurels........................I'll call them predators who feed themselves on human miseries.............A Good Write.........
hi sadiq...aakum i am atonce reminded of the closing remarks /dedication of RAMBO-111... i am not sure which...but it is instructive 'dedicated to the brave people of Afganistan' these words haunted the colonialists then they haunt them now...what on earth is a poet going to do... Aha...iv heard that before...the pen is mightier than the sword....but alas its tip is beaten into place by a thousand scimitars and through its ugly phalic form flows the blood of innocents too you touched a raw nerve there excellent write...its atenner cheers
Writing for a price on somebody's miseries...yes, Sadiq...even war tragedies are commercialized now a days...a thoughtful write...10
A poetic tribute to the great poet......writing the real situations of life...Instead of pictures and videos, making documentaries through poems...........fabulous share! 10+++
The word warrior embattled its way through poetic path that rained down bullets of hope to the soldiers in action.Great piece Sadiq.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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A very thoughtful piece Sadiqullah...brilliant write....10+++