The Best Music Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

The Best Music



From my days of Bach, music incantos,
The Stravinsky I never heard,
Beethoven's ninth symphony,
His head blasted on the album cover.
(He was deaf by the time) . Fur Elise,
Mozart showing on Time,
And Tchaikovsky's sleeping beauty.
Frank Sinatra and Sinead O Connor.
The divine Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia,
Lyrical Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Arabic desert wanderings and Persian tongue
Turkish hammering and marching step
Carlos Santana on Spanish strings.
Lessons in raga of the rebeck, tuning,
Made by the son of Samandar Khan, the mestro.
From the King, descended the beats,
To the Schiller's textured drums.
Eminem the angry, feting fifty scent.
Gazals, and the nightingale Lata,
Stone-stepped, hill's dance, Mukarai,
And Takar singing the melody of wines.
A piano, left unattended,
Some chords on guitar, and diminishing ear-power,
Silence and singing of birds is the best music.

Sadiqullah Khan
Peshawar
January 17,2015.

Saturday, January 24, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: love and art
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Music Festival 2013 @ bd news 24 Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia at Bengal Classical
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