Silk Route Delicacies Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Silk Route Delicacies



‘Khun' means cluster, and I remember,
‘Khuns', named to the great grandes. (now in disuse) ,
This may have been ‘Khan', we retain,
The Mongols left it, we mirrored it, a challenge
To the ‘Khan'. They both come through Silk Route.

‘Kashagha', from Kashghar, finery on eating,
Wool spun local, but ‘deerhon', all Uzbek,
‘Kashkai', and ‘Paloz', all derivatives, through Silk Route.
‘Kashkari' may be an additive, in cold weather
Not to mention, 'washalye au de banai ghorhi'.

‘Csapeinrhain', headdress for women, (like Kalash) ,
Now in disuse, and ‘bandeena' or ‘bandanas', linen
Chinese or Japanese. Shanghai silk for the arms, silk thread,
For embroidery, colored or uncolored, vegetable or not.

So way back, when various Khuns, parted their own way,
From the cradle of civilization, the Central Asia,
We brought the memories of a living, still displaying,
And beyond doubt, the delicacies of the ancient route,
Or bringing ‘Karez' technology from Kashghar
Through the route. It might have passed us far,
But ‘Humber' bicycles, the charlatans brought from Kabul.

-Impact of Silk Route on the culture of Waziristan.

Sadiqullah Khan
Gilgit
November 1,2014.

Saturday, November 1, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: love and art
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