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Bulbul

Khalid Mukhtar · January 15, 2023 ·

Morning dew heaven’s play
Washes earth as if to say
Here’s another chance to get you right

Basmala in the air
Devastating dark despair
Hope in bulbul’s song and heron’s flight

Inevitably

Khalid Mukhtar · January 1, 2023 ·

Sometimes
Like that weightless moment
Of first light
Splitting day and night

A memory returns
Spellbinding
Rewinding
Revealing though blinding

A sign you want to ignore
But end up finding
Because you can’t afford
Another lapse

Loserdom

Khalid Mukhtar · December 24, 2022 ·

What sort of servant you khalid
Receiving your Master’s command
With a “why” on your mind
That is burning to find
Out His reasons that you understand

Your lordly submission is flat
Just what sort of servant is that

Wakeful Little Thing

Khalid Mukhtar · December 14, 2022 ·

Success is strange
Sometimes it lies
A quiet creature
Unasleep

You see it less
With passing hours
But there it is
Still unasleep

You mourn your mountain
Losses with
No clue it’s lying
Unasleep

There lies a lesson
Unacknowledged
Underrated
Unasleep

Be you in awe
Of little wins
That help you vanquish
Little sins

Be you in awe
Of little creatures
Unintruding
Unasleep

Fa hum laa yubsirūn

Khalid Mukhtar · December 9, 2022 ·

It is a matter of intelligence in the end
gleaned from a cosmic celestial blend
an interconnectedness sent 
on a heart free of freedoms
that speaks from a Word and a Will 
inhibiting senses intending ill

It is in the end just so
for he walks past them
but they do not see him go

Tuning In

Khalid Mukhtar · December 8, 2022 ·

Before you wander off with plans
To listen to your heart
Be sure to know its voices so
You can tell them apart

A lifetime of learning
Before you’re discerning

Unthawed

Khalid Mukhtar · November 10, 2022 ·

Sometimes a fleeting memory
Stops by to freeze the stream of time
A baby perched upon a knee
A racing urchin striped with grime

The crunch of traffic unabated
Held back by a passing train
That forces every weary eye
To softly blink and heed the rain

Skylight Musing

Khalid Mukhtar · October 22, 2022 ·

Allah for the love of the love You place
In the heart of a man doing all he can
To keep his wife and children well
Provided for within Your plan
For the lines on his face
The gray in his beard
The sleepless nights
And smiles through tears
For the love of that love
Forgive my sins

On Breaking A Clothes Hanger

Khalid Mukhtar · October 18, 2022 ·

If it’s one of those days
you reach for a clothes hanger
and it breaks as you fetch it
and you think to yourself:
“I didn’t do anything”

Banish it with a thought
heeding it as a sign
maybe it’s one of those days
when you break a thing 
though you don’t mean to

Stumbling

Khalid Mukhtar · October 1, 2022 ·

Look to the trembling baby bird
afraid though freshly fledged
that when the twig gives under it
relies on foot and wing and wit
to get back up again
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