• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Khalid Mukhtar

Word, like wind, cuts through you / Withers all but true you

  • Blog
    • All poems
    • Sonnets
    • Micropoetry
    • Ramadan
    • Stories
    • Silly rhymes
    • Riddles
    • Articles
  • Written Works
  • Contact
  • About Khalid
  • Show Search
Hide Search
You are here: Home / Poetry / Holding Fast

Holding Fast

Khalid Mukhtar · February 8, 2021 · Leave a Comment

To fast on end for forty days
To bring your heart into a state
Then cleanse your mouth to help expel
The odors in your silent breath

And then you learn the Lord was pleased
With what you thought offensive smelled
So off you fast for forty more
Before your conference is held

The prophets don’t just spend their time
They give of it in ways sublime

Micropoetry, Poetry

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Follow me on Substack

Categories

  • Announcements (18)
  • Articles (25)
  • Gaza (8)
  • Memoir (1)
  • Micropoetry (444)
  • Photography (3)
  • Poetry (865)
  • Ramadan (101)
  • Riddles (46)
  • Rondeau (1)
  • Silly rhymes (28)
  • Sonnet (60)
  • Stories (7)
  • Uncategorized (1)
  • What is, is not (6)
May 2025
S M T W T F S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Apr    
Get new posts by email:

Powered by follow.it

Copyright 2007-2022 khamuk.com