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Khurshid Alam Poem
The sky is blue, the stars are bright
and the moon shines at night
I’m unable to make poems
of the orderly life.
Grass is green, flowers blossoming,
fresh fruit ripe on trees and vegetables
bloom without pesticides on time
I can’t translate them in poems.
Lakes, streams and rivers brim
with water and fish swim
without a boundary.
To write I find no theme.
Children go to school, teachers
teach them with all love and care
mothers send them with morals
I find no reason to write.
I sit idle and lament on
whence the world became so ideal
for in history I learned and
found all things disorderly
and I trained myself to earn
on the heaps of people’s errors.
Copyright © Khurshid Alam | Year Posted 2006
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Khurshid Alam Poem
Oh heaven… Cease to exist there!
And fall on them: the abbot of unreason!
They play mortal games on immortal themes
with faint afflation they desecrate
years old medium of tenets divine.
The hands that rose for blessing
lay in the dust and the legs that led
people onto the path of amity
were without mass and stood on no path
the lotus-wide ears grew for people’s misery
to build a heaven of comfort for them.
The heart that did no harm to any humans:
he professed neither God-ism nor atheism
no one must have an ism to fight on
the holy body was desecrated beyond excuse.
Oh heaven… Cease to exist there!
And fall on them: the abbot of unreason!
They’d done this to many temples and mosques
and brought no sense but lacerating hearts.
Should they meet their end in a place unknown?
and vanish into a dark forest and no one mourns.
Oh heaven…Cease to exist there!
And fall on them: the abbot of unreason!
Copyright © Khurshid Alam | Year Posted 2006
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Khurshid Alam Poem
If I ever stoop
Only to pick a fallen flower
Not to pluck from its branch
If I ever stoop
Only to raise a man
Not to disgrace his fallen state
If I ever stoop
Only to nurse the pain
Not to cause the pain
If I ever stoop
Only to pray for all
Not to curse any.
Copyright © Khurshid Alam | Year Posted 2015
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