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Zahra 7m
My love
flows steady,
like the
  ocean’s tide,
  splashing at
  the shores of
  your heart
  in sadness.
   It is as sharp as
    a whale’s teeth,
  as certain as the
    thorns on a rose,
   and as dark as
    tree bark.
Zahra 1d
In youth, love
  is concentrated
like sugar in a
drink-
restless,
rushing
fizzing.
Zahra 3d
To hate
someone
is to
heave a
thousand
mountains
with bare
palmer
creases.
It is to sip
poison
first, just
to test
its sting,
it is to
fall
into a
field
of thistles
  banging'.
Zahra 4d
The sun
says nothing,
yet the
world
answers-
warbling,
chirring,
tweeting.
The sun opens
me like a door
each day and
the moon is
my final exit-
and between
these two
i'm kept.
Zahra 5d
stop! I said to
this clanging mind
go! I said to my
hedonist heart
neither of the
  two deserves
my body.
Zahra 6d
This morning,
i felt that
nature, too,
celebrates
the birth of
her saplings-
lifting their
tender heads
toward the sun
and scraping
them against
the smudged,
beheaded
moon.
Zahra 7d
Poetry
isn’t
always
about
cactus
giggling
under
raindrops
or raging
against
herbivory.
It’s the
art of
being
heard in
babbling
phases.
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