One Thread Only Poem by Bulleh Shah

One Thread Only



One thread, one thread only!
Warp and woof, quill and shuttle,
countless cloths and colors,

a thousand hanks and skeins -
with ten thousand names
ten thousand places.

But there is one thread only.

Bulleh Shah
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Topic(s) of this poem: places
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