Said the Night
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1 min readSep 21, 2021
Sonnet: Modern
‘We have met before’,
said the night as we sipped on the moonlight
Speaking of love and other accidents
‘Why must you sleep in this beauteous hour?’ she asks
‘To touch you once again
Breathe through our fragrance
Pressing my lips to end the war
I sleep to undream the sorrows of the heart…’
‘You carry within you an undying song,’ she says.
The old pond stirs as I throw in a pebble
It makes gentle ripples that I cannot see
We listen to each other in silence
And as the morning begins its ascent I finally understand,
darkness reveals far more than light
Poet Lubna Yusuf
You may like to read her book A Teaspoon of Poems : A Book of Haiku, Tanka, Monoku and Sonnets with Illustrations, a bestseller in Asian Literature on Amazon.
