The Looking Glass

The Looking Glass.

What meaning cAnst you place in one verse?
Hold it tight
Squeeze with might

Imagine that your poem is a bottle out to sea.
What echo would you wish to bleed
Into that vessel bound.

For horiZons that you cannot see.
Or with a fiery tongue,
You might place therein the curse of Djinn.

But imagine that your verVe could inspire,
People to deliver.
On hope, and hope, and hope.

How much the better.


That the magic that you weave,
With words of silk and satin'd lace,
Merely clothe a box with nowt within.

Tied with a bow,
To make so special.
That they themselves might find within.

So great a present,
Would that be.
If realised
If actualised

But better yet still
A thing that could inspire at will
Whose words would sweep you with mystery

Profound
Yet of no nonsense speak
One that could make yourself
anew.

Anew
Renew
That ancient bond of trust you took

Stay true, my friend.
Stay true.

For if you would just polish it.
That then you could be the looking glass.

Shafi..
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And the Messenger of God was known to those who knew him, as the walking Qur'an-
The Recitation.




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