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“...so i will greet you
in a way
all loved things
are meant to be greeted

with a tear in my heart
and a poem in my eye.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“because some things
sometimes

aren't ours to hold,

but just beautiful
to listen to.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to my descendants

so they know that I too,
have been bruised...by beauty.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“i'm glad to be alive
in a world where
his gently awakening eyes
nourish the morning sun.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“What's a rainy day
without some delicious
coffee-flavoured loneliness?”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind

while some just live
silently
in the heart

crumble, sometimes
dwindle
disappear
die

and are reborn
when you smile again.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“may my faith always be
at the end of the day

like a hummingbird...returning
to its favorite flower.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“Give me
a moon-blanket night
to keep me warm

a long-gone smile
to comfort me

a pair of rain-blue eyes
to haunt me

a simple soul
...to love me.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“leave me a smile
just warm enough...
to spend a million
golden afternoons in.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“Love, be
mystical

as the flickering
blue flame
of night

as the fully-awoken
moon

beneath cobwebs
of passing clouds

amidst chanting
high-tides

fuzzy,
as my blanket

big enough
to illuminate a hundred
thousand billion galaxies

and just small enough to fit
into my embrace.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those...soul-reaching crystals

not moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“and the afterglow...
of your gaze...is the only
sweater that I need.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“I blink January’s lashes
and gush down December’s cheeks”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“there is some aching
that will only heal...
in the mosque of sleep.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“i will forever be colliding
with a billion unnamed
undiscovered stars, each of us
on our own orbital paths.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“let me die
from having being drunk on
indigo skies, my liver...
overflowing with stars.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“i want to
stay curled and cosied
and chocolated....forever
in my mother’s arms.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“for all I can really do is
stand here
in September’s rain
savoring…
soaking it all in
slipping..
and simply
holding on to poetry
for dear life.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire
and frost of memories

of the everlastingness
of love

the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“when I finally begin to drift
into sleep
your memory is the...first
and the moonlight
the last, to kiss my face.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“let my heart always be
like it is...this very moment
ready to explode...with love
a violent rainstorm...
with no stream
no ocean vast enough
to flow into.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“how can i ever
breathe normally again

after having been cradled
by the kind of sorrow
so silent, that it nourishes

after having been swept
by the kind of joy
so absolute, that it wounds.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

i discover
it’s another way
for me
to be in tears.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“leave me some music
that’s chocolate
for the heart.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
“give me
a pillow of strong
ever-dependable shoulders
that i can bury my head in.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

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