Aroma Of Damp Earth Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

The calligraphic precision of the ink
Blue and black green floral motifs
The nib turns on the parchment
Of gold washed skin like on serpent.
Sliced turned in the direction
Water flows on the contours shaped.
The texture is like silk entangled,
The lover's blood to add the red.
Eyes had seen the roundness
Either a setting sun or a rising moon.

Celebration is to life as extinction;
To death is given the self but once
From earth to heaven is rising the soul.
'Love the life you live' was the writing
Not on a wall but on the body mortal.
Love the life you live or else
Angel of death carries names on scroll.

To the life's breathing moments
Given to us on a count like the eyes
We blink to see the nature's last tempest.
We hold in the arm or brace it to the chest.
The breathing would return from the warmth
Of the love's bosoms like aroma of damp earth.

Sadiqullah Khan
Peshawar
December 24,2012.

Vincent van Gogh: Autumn Landscape,1885.