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Category: Sonnets

On Riverside Walks

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onMarch 23, 2015December 31, 2015

I’ve strolled this river often thinking why I find myself attracted to its shore, And after some such strolling, can’t deny The reasons why it…

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On Forgetting To Remember

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onFebruary 25, 2015July 24, 2016

The thing about forgetfulness is that A creature that someone believes you know Has left the rocky perch where once it sat And wandered off…

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The Kingdom Trap

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onFebruary 24, 2015December 31, 2015

I tried to capture into the confines of a sonnet the gist of Shaykh Amin’s insights into the conclusory verses of Surah Al-Qasas (the chapter of…

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On The Not So Many Things I Cannot Stand

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onJanuary 29, 2015December 31, 2015

There aren’t so many things I cannot stand, But of the ones I cannot stand at all Are: handshakes feeling like they’ll break my hand,…

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Baby on the Nile

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onNovember 4, 2014December 31, 2015

There is something about a child, you know, Something that makes all other pain seem less; To hear the constant utterance of No And find…

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Walk, Baby, Walk!

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onJuly 9, 2014December 31, 2015

A lunchtime sonnet to parents out there getting anxious about their babies’ walking/talking abilities :-). Why all this haste to see a baby walk! Are…

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Sonnet on the Futility of Placing a Familiar Face

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onMay 14, 2014December 31, 2015

You ever see a face you’ve seen before, Then start to wonder when or where that was? You glance askance while lined up at the…

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On Rimbaud’s Eternity

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onDecember 23, 2013December 31, 2015

Inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s Eternity How can the reaches of a mortal mind Encompass what defies encompassing, To plumb the depths of time and space…

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On Sonnets

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onOctober 29, 2013December 31, 2015

To forge a sonnet is an art supreme; It begs a certain clarity of thought To court a shy yet unrelenting theme And groom it…

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A Sonnet To My Children

by Khalid MukhtarPosted onSeptember 20, 2011December 31, 2015

Of all the things that make for sunny skies, And send upon my heart a summer breeze, I love you child, the coolness of my…

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