(dedicated to Ms. Chitra Lele, a poet friend at poemhunter) <br /> <br />I have been thinking <br />All night long <br />Now I am exhausted <br />What are you, Love? , I whisper <br /> <br />But there is only the mango tree <br />Rustling in a dream <br />The heart is very sublime <br />Very subtle and calm <br /> <br />On your diary book <br />The moonlight shines in <br />On your smiles and laughs <br />Just circle around <br /> <br />But you are not there <br />Then I am wandering <br />I am searching <br />Where are you, Love? <br /> <br />I go about exploring <br />O wondrous sweet and fair! <br />Then I touch you <br />Standing under a silvery canopy <br /> <br />With a basket of lilies on your arm <br />A bouquet of hope in your heart <br />You are kind, like bird <br />And you talk to me <br /> <br />I hear the Cleveland Orchestra <br />Playing gorgeous tunes <br />You tell me that <br />Sunflowers need spraying <br /> <br />That the rhinos <br />Have overrun all wounds <br />That the blue roses <br />Should be cut back and rounded <br /> <br />You say to me these things <br />O, beauty from the light heat! <br />Wait, wonderful Love! <br />And shuns to have her graces spied <br /> <br />But I feel you, heart of virgin <br />Innocent heart-grow of polished pure <br />Flowing gracefully beneath <br />The green steeples of the Nomad land <br /> <br />And I long to kneel instantly at your wish <br />While all about us voice tenderly <br />Sweet Ode Songs of Henry Purcell’s <br />O Love, where are you guiding me to?<br /><br />Ahmad Shiddiqi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-love-la-isla-flamenco/
