Khadim Hussain Poems

I’ve been to the match, baby, just for the chance we might win it.
Yeah, I’ve been to the match, baby, just for the chance we might win it.
But my doggone team lost again, and in the very last minute
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Cricket the gentleman game
Played under the summer’s
By men in white,
Watched by men quenching their thirst,
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Silk producer
Labyrinth builder
Formidable hunter
Partner consumer,
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The publisher asked “is you poetry
At the cutting edge”?
“You’ll have to judge for yourself”, I said;
“But I use my poems to shave”, I added.
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Hercules
Always ate Chinese.
When in need of staying power
He always ate raw cauliflower.
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Mashriq mein ho ya Maghrib,
Shumaal ya janoob,
Akari waqt mera chera,
Khana Ka’ba val howey,
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