Sanober Khan

"my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words."

"The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing process."

"I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words."

"When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers."

"i have known yousince the beginningof timethe one i have loved alwaysin spirit.only just discoveredin person."

"Some days I don't know what is greater. My wisdom, or my stupidity."

"Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't."

"Fall in lovewith the energyof the morningstrace your fingers along the lullof the afternoonstake the spirit of the eveningsin your armskiss it deeply and thenmake loveto the tranquilityof the nights."

"your gazeacrossmy cheeksturned theminto strawberry fields."

"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."

"the nights would be orphaned without the sound of crickets chirping."

"I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory."

"If I’m not around I hope you’ll remember me and together we will hold on to our favorite song."

"“your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.”"

"“the saddest thing is to bea minute to someone,when you've made them your eternity.”"

"“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don't know, if you will ever come back.”"

"“i want to be in love with youthe same wayi am in love with the moonwith the lightshiningout of its soul.”"

"Sometimesthe things that make you cryare more beautifulthan the thingsthat make you laugh."

"love canembellish its beginningsing its blossomingand engrave its eternitiesbut can never explain its loss."

"When you left you left behind a fieldof silent flowers under a sky full of unstirred clouds...you left a million butterfliesmid-silky flutters You left like midnight rain against my dreaming ears Oh and how you left leaving my coffee scentless and my couch comfortless leaving upon my fingers the melting snow of you you left behind a calendar full of empty days and seasons full of aimless wanders leaving me alone with an armful of sunsets your reflection behind in every puddle your whispersupon every curtain your fragranceinside every petal you left your echoes in between the silence of my eyes Oh and how you leftleaving my sands footless and my shores songless leaving me with windows full of moistened moonlight nights and nightsof only a half-warmed soul and when you left... you left behind a lifetime of moments untouched the light of a million starsunshed and when you left you somehowleft my poem...unfinished. (Published in Taj Mahal Review Vol.11Number 1 June 2012)"