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Khalid Mukhtar · March 28, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Like poetry written
To meter and rhyme
Infusing its substance
With traces of time

Or the angles and curves
Of the ب that is drawn
As bamboo unites
With the leaf it is on

Like the body Adamic
With purpose and form
Yet dead if devoid
Of a breath that is warm

Or the form of a prayer
With pillars designed
For peace when the heart
Forces presence of mind

Now think of a heart
That is questing for what
Is the Source of the senses
That bring about thought

That's fiercely probing
Acute and intense
So from it may grow
An additional sense

Then a visitor comes
And he enters your cave
To hold you, embrace you
O sincere slave

For a cosmic expansion
Within and without
By Word that is timeless
And clear of doubt
--
You’re missing the flavor
If you cannot see:
You honor the cup
To honor the tea

Mending

Khalid Mukhtar · March 21, 2021 · 3 Comments

Come, broken heart
Be mended again
Your pain’s a drought
Your submission rain

Subtle

Khalid Mukhtar · March 21, 2021 · 2 Comments

True knowledge is subtle 
Its serving is subtle 
It’s nourishing if 
The observing is subtle

Deflatingly

Khalid Mukhtar · March 20, 2021 · 1 Comment

You don’t tell your win-thirsty team
Right before the championship game
That the English and Science and Math’s where it’s at
All this winning and losing’s the same

You’ve got eleven months to get it right, plan 
For eleven more once you get through it 
Let the wave that’s coming break over you man 
Now’s the right time to get all into it

And remember that you 
Can say what is right 
And be idiotic even as you do it 
I know.

Effect and Cause

Khalid Mukhtar · March 3, 2021 · 2 Comments

Act, for if you don’t, my friend
You will have missed a chance to act
Don’t act to fashion noble end
For that is heedless of the fact

That consequence is seas of veils
Concealing timeless mysteries
Of Will Divine that tilts the scales
Of justice done by histories 

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