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    • sprinkle some sun and wait
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    • Levels of Prayer
    • Being Whole-Hearted
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    • Knowing and Believing
    • Good Faith, Bad Faith
    • Unbiased Discussion
    • Faith Without Compassion
    • Peace in the Background
  • Poems on Life
    • Poems on Life 1
      • Butterfly effect
      • children on the street
      • Come see
      • labelled destiny
      • Relic
      • A tree woke up
    • Poems on Life 2
      • Heaven will rain
      • Removed from reality
      • Unless We Touch Flowers
      • Drive towards
      • long gone but here
  • Spiritual Poems
    • Spiritual Poems 1
      • My thought is now electric
      • I speak in magical metaphor
      • comes the sacred
      • gently astonished
      • The absurd
      • I do not know…
    • Spiritual Poems 2
      • mightier wings
      • Only Sun Remain
      • Others Bolder than I
      • Perspectives
      • sprinkle some sun and wait
      • tiny prayers
    • Spiritual Poems 3
      • Wear a red sky today
      • Wakened Sea
      • what flowers have found
      • My father spoke to me
      • The Cold
      • Whitman Devastated
  • Urdu Poetry
    • Noorani Roshni
    • Hum Nay Dekha
    • Ho Jai
  • Other Poets
    • Introduction to Poetry
  • Thoughts
    • Thoughts 1
      • The Good Atheist
      • Thoughtful vs Literal
      • Levels of Prayer
      • Being Whole-Hearted
      • Debating Feelings
    • Thoughts 2
      • You are crafted byevents
      • Self-Honesty
      • Love without Analysis
      • Cruel Beliefs
      • Knowing and Believing
    • Thoughts 3
      • Good Faith, Bad Faith
      • Unbiased Discussion
      • Faith Without Compassion
      • Peace in the Background

Unless We Touch Flowers

February 24, 2009

At times one clearly sees, hate will uproot
all meaning from mother earth and her flute
will play no more and skies will be torn
and a grievous grief will soon be born

unless the sun descends deep into our life
adding meaning to this endless strife
unless we touch living flowers each day
and we love on though love look away

and this let us resolve , “love won’t die out
or dampen within us, though at times we cry out
for clarity beyond the clouds, for a touch
of meaning when an extra bit is too much”

and this let us resolve “we will overturn
defeat into a lesson of love. We will burn
ourselves in a passion seeking the rays
of a fading life of more nights than days”

so that, each thorny day, flowers are born anew
children speak radiance that is bold and true
winter unfolds spring, deep within our hearts
in harmony we play our passionate parts

amidst all the noise and nonsense let us flatter
ourselves that the sun walks with us and we matter
that the song which awakened us will spread
some darkness unnamed won’t leave our souls dead

* written about three years before 9/11 and the subsequent madness

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Poems on Life

Ali Ghaznavi

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ruby
January 9, 2010 at 12:56 am

Many people will feel blessed and enlivened that they have had a chance to read this.



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