Sadiqullah Khan Poems

And you put me the gauntlet
Your lips sweeter than the eternal stream,
Or warmth of your embrace, clouds more thicker?
Nights darker, and stars in the eyes. A match!
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A decade ago, Friend showed me a splendor,
A rose in bud, in the ancient gardens
We lifted the mystery from around the gourd,
Blue tiled heights, mud columns touching skies.
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The most disgraceful thing, they think
Is to tell a lie, the next worst to owe a debt.
Because among other reasons the debtor
Is obliged to tell lies. They never defile a river,
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"They say this town is full of cozenage:
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
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Pick the thread, invent the jargons,
‘Get syndicated', boxed,
Your office is ‘workshop'
Sleep on paper. Drink black coffee.
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While your candle burns
On the tomb’s epitaph
Matron of the Republic,
The Palla -, green, yellow
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A dog sleeps by my door,
On a warm mat, in a cold night,
When it is raining.
He had been coughing
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The dialogue takes place between Aristotle, Homer and Sappho, based on Poetics of Aristotle.


Prelude to ‘Poetics’ of Aristotle
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The Caliph’s Janissaries
Concubines from the distant shores
A berry’s honey, the honey-bee
Thirst brings more taste to the tongue.
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Be pure absence
The narcissus eye is blind
You have travelled
Far and distant
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