saadat tahir Poems

("Abu shafshufa" is dead and china is dead silent)

As raggedy women line up for rice.
A scraggly head is killed by mice.
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I abhor to be all alone by myself
an old bottle stood on the shelf

Me my swooning soul all alone
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Shishi and I, just draped our doll,
Giggling, in the shade of a sacred scroll.

Stood by the well and eyed us long,
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A lover's delight and everyone's dream
That leaves in eyes a twinkling realm

My land is the land of melodic themes
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Marshal's epaulettes now traded for suits.
And Itallian shoes for mil-issue boots.
Eyeing with disdain our forgotten roots.
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I was the proverbial busy bee
Up in the attic down on my knee

Brush the piano feed the hare.
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Pointing dishes at galactic streams.
Sighing stars, echo faintly screams.

Deep in vistas amid glimmering clouds,
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Shaded winding ways an streams
Humming brook brims an beams

Filtered light in misty shafts
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You know me so very well!
Know exactly where I dwell.
Slowly at first make a spell.
masterly do the paces as well.
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Wish I could, just live in your heart.
The human bit and the spiritual part.

In fearless daring, to touch your hair.
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