Bound(P) Poems - Poems about Bound(P)

Part Thirty — The Story's End Sweet Giti, gem in heaven's ring, Stayed true in love through everything. Her heart she gave to her dear flame, Soul's companion, love's sweet name. And Saeed—behold his blessed state! Though challenged by his cruel fate, Hear how his trials came to bear His faithful heart, worn down by care. Despite the wounds and aching soul, From strangers' scorn...

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Part Twenty-Seven — Giti Speaks with Her Father and His Reply Sweet Giti, like an idol fair, A thousand hearts caught in her hair. As soft and gentle as the breeze, Her charm could bring strong men to knees. She locked her heart and gave love's key, Sugar-sweet smiles for all to see. She turned and gently told her sire: "O father dear,...

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Part Twenty-Four — The Fifth Cupbearer's Song O Saqi, one glance—show mercy here, And heal this wound with wine so clear. Fill up the cup for we are dry, Drunk with desire that makes us sigh. That cup like chalice of the kings, Whose breath brought joy to all good things. A draught that when it's poured for any, Banishes sorrow, heals so...

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Part Twenty-One — Saeed's Supplication to God One day with flute and mournful song, Saeed began a prayer so long. His patience broke, he lost his hold, His heart grew weary, tired, and cold. Disheartened by both friend and kin, Sorrow consumed his soul within. He turned toward the starlit sky And raised to heaven his mournful cry: "O Lord, Creator of all worlds, O...

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Part Eighteen — The Counsel of Saeed's Relatives They came to Saeed, kith and kin, Their faces pale, their hearts within Full of concern. They gently said, "What sorrow fills your weary head? You've cast your soul before her feet, Forsaken all for love so sweet. You've lost yourself within her spell, A wanderer in love's deep well. You've severed ties with all the...

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Part Fifteen — The Third Cupbearer's Song O Saqi, pour the midnight wine That bears the ancient royal sign. Arise and swiftly bring, I pray, That sacred draught to light our way. The wine that ruby lips inspire And shakes the mountain's heart of fire. A cup whose color glows like flame, Beyond all count, beyond all name. Bring forth that pure, untainted bliss And...

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Part Twelve — Saeed Meets Giti He reached her street, his senses fled, As if his earthly time had sped. The wind arose with scents so rare, Her fragrance floating on the air. He knew by grace of heaven above That near him dwelt his truest love. Swift as the breeze, to her he came, With trembling heart and soul aflame. Before her face...

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Part Nine — Saeed's Love Revealed to All Young Saeed rose in joyful flight, A bird set free in morning light. Through streets and lanes he wildly spun, His careful mask now came undone. He sang of Giti's promised grace, Of all he'd seen in her sweet face. But such delight, so loudly told, Released the secret love he'd hold. The very rooftops heard...

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Part Six — The Story Begins The tale begins, as poets say, Of lovers two who found their way. That radiant child, so young and fair, A cypress tall with flowing hair. The envy of all idols bright, With beauty born to charm the sight. Wherever she would softly tread, A thousand hearts behind her fled. That idol—when her veil was drawn, The pride of...

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Part Three — Zuhrah's Song (1) O knower of love and mystic's wine, Sweet mistress of the dance divine! With harp and lute she weaves her tune, Her music soars beyond the moon. A queen whose steed none can outrace, While kings of every land give chase. From dawn until the setting sun, She sang of her beloved one. "Sweet Giti," thus she named...

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Introduction "The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed" is a modern reimagining of a classic Persian love epic, woven from the threads of ancient myth, Sufi mysticism, and the eternal yearning of two souls. It tells the tale of Giti and Saeed—lovers bound by fate and challenged by the trials of longing and destiny. In this retelling,...

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O leave your home-bound narrow world, Take to the vast dome of the world. No use just sticking to your home, See, sun and moon roam in the world. As do old leaves, flowers and fruits, Turn not to soil’s loam of the world. Look at home-bound frustrate oceans, Ground-stuck, they froth and foam in world. There’s world to learn...

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Brothers once, beneath the same monsoon sky, Before foreign flags touched your soil, You drank from the same rivers, Laughed beneath the same banyan trees, Shared gods, grain, and ground. But when the map was sliced by hands not yours, When borders were inked in sorrow and salt, A mother wept—her children pulled apart, Not by will, but by wounds too deep to...

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As a child of God, we have His power commingled with divine love, light and bliss but since we know not, in fear we cower, sinking deeper into desire’s abyss, though our heart tells us something is amiss. Recognising we are not body-mind, we then play our life role as God assigned as spirit ensouling organic form, transmitting vibrations loving and kind,...

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The dainty walk of Chinese women beyond the Wall in olden days was due to cruel and unusual punishment confined and constrained by strange customary ways victims of fashion prisoners of fad small feet were in sadly big were bad forced to wear a pair of lotus shoes very small baby steps were all they took altho' it wasn't until 1912 or so when...

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