FastSaying

to be a poet means
to live
with a permanent wound

forever
susceptible
to either

the shade
of the sky

or someone's eyes.


Sanober Khan

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be the kiss in my hair
that no one sees

move, when i move
sigh, when i sigh...<...
SANOBER KHAN i'm glad to be alive
in a world where
his gently awakening eyes
nourish the morning ...
SANOBER KHAN fierce lovers.
and battle warriors

both come
from the same place.

t...
SANOBER KHAN Sometimes I think,
I need a spare heart to feel
all the things I feel.
SANOBER KHAN whatever you do
be gentle with yourself.
you don’t just live
in this world
or ...
SANOBER KHAN I wouldn't mind
if life left me...

wingless

burnt to cinders
ripped ...
SANOBER KHAN I had embraced you...
long before i hugged you.
SANOBER KHAN The splendid thing
about falling apart
silently...
is that
you can start over SANOBER KHAN Poems can get
sleepless too

and become

the loneliest thing
in the un...
SANOBER KHAN in a world
full of
temporary things

you are
a perpetual
feeling.
SANOBER KHAN you are
as fleetingly beautiful

as a mother’s tears
and a father’s pranks SANOBER KHAN I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire...
SANOBER KHAN a flower knows, when its butterfly will return,
and if the moon walks out, the sky will unders...
SANOBER KHAN there is some aching
that will only heal...
in the mosque of sleep.
SANOBER KHAN the saddest thing is to be
a minute to someone,
when you've made them your eternity.
SANOBER KHAN depth and substance.
the two most exquisite qualities.
be it in a poem
or a person.
SANOBER KHAN poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.

and changes
its composition.
SANOBER KHAN To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.
SANOBER KHAN your hand
touching mine.
this is how
galaxies
collide.
SANOBER KHAN the intensity
in your eyes

burns my pen
as i write.
SANOBER KHAN For it is up to you and me
to take solace
in nostalgia's arms

and our ability SANOBER KHAN i hope that
whoever you are
wherever you are
and no matter how
you are feeling SANOBER KHAN What's a rainy day
without some delicious
coffee-flavoured loneliness?
SANOBER KHAN Tea is just an excuse.
i am drinking this sunset, this evening.
and you.
SANOBER KHAN May your love for me be
like
the scent of the evening sea

drifting in
thr...
SANOBER KHAN I keep my kindness in my eyes
Gently folded around my iris
Like a velvety, brown blanket...
SANOBER KHAN ...and so many colors
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the...
SANOBER KHAN Words
are powerful
forces of nature.

they are destruction.
they are nouris...
SANOBER KHAN Give me
a moon-blanket night
to keep me warm

a long-gone smile
to comfort ...
SANOBER KHAN i want to
stay curled and cosied
and chocolated....forever
in my mother’s arms.
SANOBER KHAN I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
SANOBER KHAN in the end
it is words
poetry. sunsets
someone’s deep blue
silk voice.
m...
SANOBER KHAN I want to read every book that’s written
hear every song that was sung
I want to gaze at...
SANOBER KHAN love
wounds me
with soft pillows
with tender lips
and fingers
SANOBER KHAN tell me
of something fiercer
than the love with which
i gaze upon you

of...
SANOBER KHAN in the afterglow
of an evening rain

i lay down
in the grass
and think of ...
SANOBER KHAN lean in to kiss me
in all the places

where the ache
is
the most special.
SANOBER KHAN ...so i will greet you
in a way
all loved things
are meant to be greeted

w...
SANOBER KHAN stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his sh...
SANOBER KHAN What you are trying to let go of
...is already gone.
SANOBER KHAN a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.
SANOBER KHAN let my heart always be
like it is...this very moment
ready to explode...with love
a v...
SANOBER KHAN Do not turn me
into
restless waters

if you cannot promise
to be my stream...
SANOBER KHAN you were
and always will be

that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the g...
SANOBER KHAN Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life.
SANOBER KHAN moonlight disappears down the hills
mountains vanish into fog
and i vanish into poetry.
SANOBER KHAN I have woken up…quite sloshed
from night-mingled rains
a little drugged, by mountain fog...
SANOBER KHAN And stay, my dear
stay...
forever, as my quiet song,
in my lilac dawn.
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to love
do not ever
settle
for anything
less than magical.
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cutting a swathe through t...
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i tasted
the softness of the moon

in the coldest winds
SANOBER KHAN kisses explode
when...
someone
believes in me

when my heart cries out ...
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more than daffodils
and cried more than June.
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SANOBER KHAN Look at
how deeply flawed
we are

and yet
capable of loving
so perfec...
SANOBER KHAN I was coming together...
limb by limb, after being broken
for an infinity.
SANOBER KHAN I live there...

where the birds are infinite
everywhere

where they flee SANOBER KHAN poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-

of turning silence
into elo...
SANOBER KHAN The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning

my world is thinning
...
SANOBER KHAN the one
who will jolt awake
all the unwritten
the unsung
and the unlived
i...
SANOBER KHAN leave me a smile
just warm enough...
to spend a million
golden afternoons in.
SANOBER KHAN Fall in love
with the energy
of the mornings

trace your fingers
along the...
SANOBER KHAN my mother
is pure radiance.

she is the sun
i can touch
and kiss

SANOBER KHAN even
in the loneliest moments

i have been there
for myself.
SANOBER KHAN Live as many lives as you can.
SANOBER KHAN for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

th...
SANOBER KHAN Watch, how the sun
slowly rises
from behind my ear

new lines, new countries
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can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
SANOBER KHAN your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are wa...
SANOBER KHAN tread carefully
into my life, my dear.

the currents
are strong.

you...
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that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to m...
SANOBER KHAN I blink January’s lashes
and gush down December’s cheeks
SANOBER KHAN i want to be
in love with you

the same way
i am in
love with the moon SANOBER KHAN Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don’t know
where I’m heading
with...
SANOBER KHAN May the nights always be aglow
with the bliss of the day
with unharmed hands and feet
SANOBER KHAN We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.
SANOBER KHAN I realized

June had never been
just a month

music...
never just a tr...
SANOBER KHAN leave me some music
that’s chocolate
for the heart.
SANOBER KHAN my love
for you
will always be
like a mountain stream.

quiet.
persis...
SANOBER KHAN my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words.
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some of us rhyme. some don’t.
some are Pulitzer prizes
som...
SANOBER KHAN there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind

while some ...
SANOBER KHAN Great struggles make for great stories.
SANOBER KHAN sometimes i don't know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
SANOBER KHAN I breathe in...
the fragrance
of love, and moist sand
the one
his roses left
SANOBER KHAN it is to be savored like a
seabreeze-whispered

dream...in the mysterious
blue ...
SANOBER KHAN As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night’s velvet slippers
SANOBER KHAN and the afterglow...
of your gaze...is the only
sweater that I need.
SANOBER KHAN some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some...
SANOBER KHAN a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy...
SANOBER KHAN You are the ocean to my eyes.
SANOBER KHAN our feet
are grape-squashed in memories

our skins are still flushed
from the t...
SANOBER KHAN we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't qui...
SANOBER KHAN your gaze
across
my cheeks

turned them
into
strawberry fields.
SANOBER KHAN ..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.
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Right then ...
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Rib cage fastens ...
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as long as the nightmare wakes them up
to greet with a bucketful o...
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