Their cold-hearts cast you out. Here, beneath motionless skies where all that would shine is tinted in monochrome. The taste of winter air slithers into your lungs and exhales as a trembling sigh – cold smoke falling from your lips, curling downward and vanishing into icy waters. Thousands of books are sinking in this ocean: [...]
All posts in category Poetry
Soul Twin
I wait for you. Like a messianic prophecy that will someday come true. We existed together before creation of the universe, somewhere beyond ideas of time, space and matter. Elements we became, stardust fallen from the heavens, risen upon earth in beautiful skin and bone. Separate we are, histories of our own, yet sharing a [...]
Posted by Jehanzeb on August 5, 2010
http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/soul-twin/
Margalla
Lovers on a honeymoon, full of life and celebration, smiles in new bloom. Sad hearts journeying to a dear one’s funeral, open arms awaiting. A younger brother hopeful for the job interview ahead, a bright future on the horizon. A flight carrying 152 stories, passengers, attendants, pilots, human beings like you and me. Dreams, hopes, [...]
Posted by Jehanzeb on July 29, 2010
http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/margalla/
Ishtiyaq (Longing)
With what power do You move me when I am disciplined in deep thought? With what mystery do You wake me when my body asks for rest? With what miracle do You entrance me when my mind is too tired to think? Have I become too weak or You too powerful? Tell me. Whisper my [...]
Posted by Jehanzeb on May 20, 2010
http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ishtiyaq-longing/
Muhammad
O’ Prophet, Tonight, I feel the fullness of your soul, the miracle of your blessed existence from so many centuries past, it transcends all barriers of space and time and like a sudden, mystic fire that I cannot name, I feel your eternal memory burn this heart of mine. I want to find you somewhere [...]
Posted by Jehanzeb on May 14, 2010
http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/muhammad/
Ephemeral
This outer form you call beauty is of this transient, ephemeral. This body, this face is made of dust. It will all blow away, each and every particle, swirling into the wind like radiant leaves departing in autumn. Youth will fade someday, along with the rest of these material forms; even the earth is just [...]
Posted by Jehanzeb on April 25, 2010
http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/ephemeral/
Arezou (Desire)
I want Your Light. Radiant, hot, blinding; bring me Heaven’s beauty in a beam of mystic fire; let it tear through my flesh, roar through my veins, enrage me like the wild souls of Layla and Majnun. I want Your Love – fierce, powerful violent. Step out of hiding, emerge from the portal, reach for [...]
Posted by Jehanzeb on February 13, 2010
http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/arezou-desire/
Ya Hossein
Dearest Teacher, A sudden cry of sorrow sprung from my heart As my eyes saw the sky split in two “Listen,” says the voice in a healing whisper I hear the rain of Holy blood falling In each drop, a Divine Verse is recited Truth, Passion, Love, a Heavenly reminder: Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi [...]
Posted by Jehanzeb on January 2, 2010
http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/ya-hossein/
A Love Like This
Somewhere you are lost in oblivion, racing through uncertain dreams in search of Ishq-e-Majazi – the Love of Layla and Majnun and of Ishq-e-Haqiqi – the Love of eternal Divine It is here, dear one, in this magnificent palace of unspeakable wonder, singing the praises of beloved Mumtaz and glowing with the miracles of the [...]
Posted by Jehanzeb on December 4, 2009
http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/a-love-like-this/
Fatima
I dreamt of being awake, traveling through dust and sand of an unknown desert realm. Lines on my hands turned to the alien sky as my weeping blood-tears left flooded trails across the crimson dune sea. Darkness and its caravan passed me a thousand times striking my body with sword and arrow; trying to batter [...]
Posted by Jehanzeb on August 25, 2009
http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/fatima/
