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Love song   By Zaheda Ghani
July 2004

Honey haired child,
Braids woven tightly by nimble fingers in the sun of
morning,
Amongst the dew caressed tall grasses of my childhood.

Small red berries in the yellow-eyed field,
Their kisses stain red.

Thick layers of your voice,
Shattering the windows of my authenticity,
Like a wide winding ribbon of colour,
To encapsulate me,
To fill me with promise.

I am searching.

Brilliant, pleading, glistening eyes,
Strangers meeting slightly intoxicated,
Slightly blind.
We collide running through the vastness of this
technicolour dreamscape.

Where did time go?

My heart-temple is submerged in a
pool of light and sails an empty ancient ship,
negotiating angry waves in the distant seas of your
smile.
Not returning until next sunrise with
The weaving song of nimble fingers.


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Zaheda Ghani
Other work by the author
» My lover
(May 2004)

» in the blue
(Mar 2004)

» Influential
(Jan - Dec 2001)

» lost rose
(Apr - Jun 2000)

» woman
(Jan - Mar 2000)

» untitled
(Jul - Sep 1999)

» Lost Moons
(Jan - Mar 1999)

» My Journey and My Prayer
(Jul - Sep 1998)

» Fragmentations
(Jul - Sep 1998)

» in a tiny black box
(Apr - Jun 1998)

» Afghanistan...
(Apr - Jun 1998)
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