Lesser Ochre Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

The lesser ochre, Othello!
Brave and the courageous,
Envy bitten, but who is Desdemona?
Player, recall or help me with memory,
Of the years ago, I ask the youth,
Nearby stands, she far away.
The play shall be read and read again,
Whence I read is my time’s spread,
Or a painter makes her call, in Homerian-
Fancy, décor, color, column and costume.

-On a painting of Desdemona by Gustave Mareau,1885.

Sadiqullah Khan
Gilgit
August 20,2015.