Haidar's Corner

The oceans are worlds apart, but the waters flow Across a thousand leagues I send this bottle Inside I've written note which says it all Emptying contents, that seek to rust my heart  Now heart flutters like butterfly And then settles nigh The minds mesh in utopia Distance is no barrier For the heart knows that which is missing Haidarwali 201601242006hrs

Curled up in bed I snuggled deeper into the warmth. Dreamily, I give in as I am transported yonder... I see her carrying the proverbial pail of water. She wears a garb of wear and tear that veils her essence. Day in day out, routine takes away her dreams and like the falling sand of an hourglass she watches her destiny trickling. A few grains remain till the curtain is drawn. If only she could reach out to turn the flow. She looks at me, her eyes fixedly boring into my soul and I feel naked. She knows I have heard her plea but does not know whether I will... Maje Amin 201601231800hrs

A waft awakes Identifies like fingerprint Imprint like charcoal burn Burn seared in memory Cast like stone Each bird seeks Only its kind Scent of hen Is not of dove Haidarwali 201601231659hrs

Kina cikin zuciya ta kamar kifi yayi nutso a kogi Na dulmiya cikin tunaninki kamar mai su a bahar Maliya Sonki ya mamaye ni kamar fatar jikina Kaunarki ta hadiye ne kamar giwar ruwa Allah yayi min kyautarki kamar ruwa a jallo Idan na kalleki nakan dauka mafarki nake Nakan ji tsoron farkawa In tarar bakece matata ba Tunanin kawai kan sa baki na daci. Translation You are in my heart like fish diving into a lake I've sunk into the pool of your thoughts like a fisherman in the Red Sea My love for you has enveloped me like the skin on my body My adoration of you has swallowed me like a whale God has gifted you to me like an oasis in the desert When I look at you it seems as if I am dreaming I'm afraid of awaking To find it is not you who are my wife Just the thought, makes my mouth bitter Maje Amin 201601192058hrs

Like me? Better Like the gush of the torrents As they slash and beat on the rooftops Like the rumble of thunder and lightening As it roars and streaks through the clouds Like the howling wind rustles and bustles As it blasts and whistles, coursing through Like the stillness of an airless night As it freezes time to a pause Like when you decide for thoughts to be words As a snapshot or video preserved. Haidarwali 201601160900hrs Dedicated to the guardian of a Pigeon named 'Kyauta'.

i was on a journey i became lost. then I saw your face ... in the sand before the wind blew it away, before the waves washed it away,  before the clouds erased it: your face like a white dove against the blue it shone like a lamp in the black night it burned like the flame, it danced like the long grasses in the wide plains it flailed like the sleepy waves of the waters lapping the beach like the thumping of heart-throbs! Haidarwali 201601152250

You see it gets to me This bitterness rising like bile Engulfing the centre, gripping Positive turns negative with cajoling Faith is barely held by hoping That fate has kept us each a path Though this blinding wrath Prevents from seeing A rose and its fragrance Water, pure, colorlessly delicious The sunrise, pregnant, auspicious But like fading blanket of Night proceeds Upon its sighting of dawn, to concede So also this envy recedes With sowing of contentment seed Haidarwali 201601102244hrs

Kindred hearts swirl in a pool Drop of a thought awakens Minds unleashed like bees Buzzing afar, pinpoint Roads and paths, to destiny Yet may be archived memory Sharing, remains the mission Whichever, waters find new color And tastes vary accordingly Canvas dries, strokes preserved And though Sun goes down Conceding battle to Night Light illumines in cycles Reborn, rediscovered. Haidarwali 201601101240hrs