The Rebel Tongue Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

The Rebel Tongue



They were called by the great Khan Changez,
And they said, ' Are there greater Khans than ourselves? '
They were told that there would be Nabobs,
‘Could you make us all Nabobs.'
The tongue twists, swallows the keys to heavens,
You can only write the wildest imagined voluptuousness,
And a refinery, that makes petty jargon ridiculous,
Clichéd ideologies worthless, and hell, an intoxicating,
Abode of beauty, freedom and expression.

-After writing a few verses in Pashto

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
June 21,2014.

Saturday, June 28, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: love and art
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Tents of Afghan nomads in Badghis Province who are known in Pashto language as Kuchans. They migrate from region to region depending on the season. Early peasant farming villages came into existence in Afghanistan about 7,000 years ago. Nomads in Badghis Province by Marc O Donald @ Wikipedia
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