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Sadiqullah Khan - There Were

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There were hanging to those ceilings blackened <br />Hides of the lambs and goats taken straight <br />Fleeced and treated with salt and ash <br />Four legs tied with some rare knots in leather <br />And hollow open from the neck where they <br />Would carry their heads while grazing in the green <br />Those skins were filled with water and milk <br />And skimmed milk from which <br />Cold butter would be made to float <br />Some women carried it to the nearby spring <br />Would fill it with water to carry to long distance <br />On a camel back and milk in it would skim it so <br />So was the oil from butter for the rice around boiled <br />There were those skins of goats and lambs filled <br />With grain in winters to preserve the taste <br /> <br />There were hanging from those ceilings blackened <br />With the color of smoke from long winters <br />There were minor spaces for the eyes to penetrate <br />Branches from oak wood on the ceiling above the pine logs <br />There were comers not so straight and a small mud fire place <br />Brass pot for the warm water as light flames of fire <br />In the middle like a monastery would all around <br /> <br />There was the scent of the linen and silk of Shanghai <br />Music of the silver ornament as the heads would turn <br />White of the eyes and dark of the eyes above cheeks <br />A hanging gun that had been oiled more than hundred times <br /> <br />There were the long shadows of the evening <br />There were the darkest nights ever seen on earth <br />The brightest moons and thousands of stars <br />There were many suns behind every corner of the walls <br />There were many trees and fruits of apple and plums <br /> <br />There were many who were in love too <br /> <br />Islamabad <br />2/6/2010<br /><br />Sadiqullah Khan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-were-2/

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