Chasing Shadows - poetry by Sadiqullah Khan

Feb. 23, 2014 - PRLog -- About The Author

Dr Sadiqullah Khan Wazir, belongs to Wana, South Waziristan Pakistan. He has published five books of poetry in English. The Voices, Chaos of Being, The Songs of Other Times and A Forgotten Song. Chasing Shadows is his newest work incorporating romance with magic realism of a kind. His works and poetry receive widespread commendations from writers and readers alike. The author globalizes a local narrative and experience, hitherto unknown to the world and represents a region with rich cultural and literary tradition.

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Preface

Formally beautiful, imaginatively playful, politically defiant, creatively unbound, figuratively emancipatory.
Hamid Dabashi on The Adventures of Amir Hamza (Dastan-e Amir Hamza), Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction, translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi -  Sadiqullah Khan, Islamabad, January 27, 2014.

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Just a fault away

All wars are fought, all fears settled,
Much has been said, much written
On an empty easel, many dyes splashed
Aleatory verse or a sound in “old pond”.
Long silence, soliloquy, and a conversation
A song is whispered, a heart’s story told.
A cherished memory and a nightmare
On the tip of tongue a dream is held.
To your own world in solitude at last,
Why not kindle a fire, hidden in ash.
Demise of the fancy’s castle is just a fault away,
Tell the north wind not be an eye of the storm.

Islamabad
June 27, 2013.

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