Rainbow Poem by Naveed Khalid

Full glorious sun of our common affairs
in waking hour,
that in thy presence alone,
must I keep in check my pulse in nurslings of immortality,
of eyes so blind her love that by beauty more;
above a firehurst, of untread feet to count I
subservient nature's most ardent desire
at sunset of the evening sky by the sea-ashore:
too, but abounds by what I most desire, contented least,
this world of deserted looks that to my mind still
e'ery fig leaf of snow-capped myrtle to wonder at thy golden brow,
that crow's quill beside, by the west-wind in autumn,
hid away from e'ery falling star to a close afraid,
of laurel wreath beyond the sunrise in age-old grey,
that in white bier to brave thine holy eyen against bloody tyrant time,
while drifting dream amiss of darkened days to some rivulet blue.


(C) Naveed Khalid

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Date Created: Saturday, June 20,2015 11: 07: 11 PM

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Date Sunday, June 21,2015 8: 18: 56 PM