01Undatedin the endit is wordspoetry. sunsetssomeone’s deep blue silk voice.mountain scents.someone’s smile.eyes. that we haveno defenses against.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
02UndatedHow strange and ironic it is- all the words i long to sayare lost in words.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
03UndatedA single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
04Undatedhow these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
06Undatedsometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
11Undatedwhat ismore beautifultears, in someone’s eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
12Undatedwordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
15UndatedYou only have to do one good thing to be in somebody’s lifetime of prayers.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
17UndatedOne clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but one fleeting glance.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
18Undatedwe are all like poems. some of us rhyme. some don’t. some are Pulitzer prizessome are just scribblesand yet, we all possessa special kind of beautythat can either heal or cut to the boneone that can never quitebe fathomed, nor forgotten.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
19Undatedholding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
20Undatedgive mea pillow of strongever-dependable shouldersthat i can bury my head in.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
21UndatedWhen you left you left behind a fieldof silent flowers under a sky full of unstirred clouds...you left a million butterfliesmid-silky flutters You left like midnight rain against my dreaming ears Oh and how you left leaving my coffee scentless and my couch comfortless leaving upon my fingers the melting snow of you you left behind a calendar full of empty days and seasons full of aimless wanders leaving me alone with an armful of sunsets your reflection behind in every puddle your whispersupon every curtain your fragranceinside every petal you left your echoes in between the silence of my eyes Oh and how you leftleaving my sands footless and my shores songless leaving me with windows full of moistened moonlight nights and nightsof only a half-warmed soul and when you left... you left behind a lifetime of moments untouched the light of a million starsunshed and when you left you somehowleft my poem...unfinished. (Published in Taj Mahal Review Vol.11Number 1 June 2012)Sanober Khan / quote ↗
22UndatedTomorrow camewith the illusion of todayeven more fleeting than yesterdayit camelike it always comesand wentlike it’s always gonelike a favorite song in its final secondsTomorrow came and leftleaving nothingnothing...but a familiarlingeringsense of loss behind.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
23Undatedmost of the timesit’s the hardest to saywhat I love moreyouor your memory.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
24Undatedlove canembellish its beginningsing its blossomingand engrave its eternitiesbut can never explain its loss.Sanober Khan / quote ↗
