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Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Owls

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Grantland

Owls

Strange sounds in the night
A lofty conclave of owls
Meet in their sanctum

While camping with my wife last summer I was awoken by a sound I couldn't identify. I walked deeper into the woods and found, in the beam of my flashlight, a gathering of owls staring down at me with large, alien eyes. I felt elated to see these magnificent birds in the wild, but knew that I was trespassing on a gathering I couldn't fully understand.

#haiku

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Social Media

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Grantland

Social Media

Strike keys like matches
Posts like sparks on dry kindling
Set the world aflame

I wrote this little haiku shortly before I left social media.

#haiku #socialmedia #twitter

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Volcano

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Ciel Noir

Volcano

A volcano may peacefully
Pour out new stone into the sea
A meter at a time

But when it has no outlet
It waits
And waits
For many years
And then all at once
Its fire and lightning fill the whole sky

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Even the Cancer

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

SG Holter

Even the Cancer

Even as dying, I have no time
For bitterness.

Life was too short,
Even before.

Each step holds gratitude for the sound
Of snow beneath it.

For
Now

I carry my passenger
Unburdened.

Say no to nothing. Not
Even the cancer.

Even tomorrow's mother's tears,
Father's clenched fists upon casket;

Flowers; loss. Inevitability.
Death grows inside me.

The opposite of a
Pregnancy.

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

If Only

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Ritz Writes

If Only

If Only
We'd time enough to kiss you one more time and hug you tight.
If Only
We'd the guts to admit our mistakes.
If Only
We'd enough time to tell our truth.
If Only
Laughter and humor could bring back the sparks.
If Only
Our unfulfilled wishes and time could mend the past.

unrequited love

#love #time #life #lover #past

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

-heer-

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Melancholy of Innocence

-heer-

This is BELOVEDz's serenade
A ballad of sorts for LOVERz

HEER:

Sing everywhere
Tell everyone our LOVE
This is our story of LOVE
Heer's search for Ranjhaa

~~~

YOU met me once
And touched me with your LOVE
YOU left your LOVE in my SOUL
And when we left each other
I left a cut-scar of LOVE-mark
On your left fore-arm

Every night in darkness
You come and kiss my fore-head
You come and kiss my toes
You surrender to me and
Melt me to dissolve in YOU

I've been wailing for YOU
I've been lamenting for you
Where are you gone
Leaving me like this in
Pain of your LOVE?

Come and see me....
What all I do to search YOU
To bring YOU back to me...

Like I left a LOVE-scar on your body
Why didn't you leave one on my body?

Why can't I rub the blood on my face
That oozed out of your scars?

I want to make a permanent mark
Of your LOVE on my SOUL
On my heart, chest and breast
As a sign and symbol of
Your LOVE's accession over me

Why can't I carry your LOVE
In my motherly womb?

I dreamZ of you a lot
Because you are not with me physically
Still every night I find
Your LOVE spirit within / besides me

I am letting you know
That this is my LOVE for YOU

No one in the world knows that
I've not allowed the world
To even sense my deep LOVE for YOU
Why we should unnecessary invite and
Influence jealous people's
Evil eye on our PURE TRUE LOVE?

You come and kiss my fore-head
You come and kiss my toes
You surrender to me and
Melt me to dissolve in YOU

Sing everywhere
Tell everyone our LOVE
This is our story of LOVE
Heer's search for Ranjhaa*

(Read the Notes)

At this moment
Ranjhaa's baritone cuts Heer's soprano

RANJHAA:

"Feel my LOVE Heer
I do not have materialistic wealth
I only carry the worth of your LOVE in me
There is only one person who
Writes LOVE poems for ZheerR...

If we can't meet now to be ONE
I will meet death in your LOVE"

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Desire

Mar 2019 Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Huss

Grantland

Desire

A poet’s desire:
That the words whisper to him
Of true things unseen

I have been working to find my voice in haiku and tanka poetry. I would love to share and discuss how to grow as a poet.

#haiku