Emdad Shah Emdad

Evening Rhymes
by Emdad Shah

Evening has come, shadows fall
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by Emdad Shah

I am a voyager, all alone
Underneath the dark stars unknown
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by Emdad Shah

The cloudy realm begins to drowse
A heavy shadow drapes the boughs
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by Emdad Shah


The night descends in heavy velvet fold
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by Emdad Shah

Silent night of the village land Draped in the velvet deep
Over the bamboo canopy
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by Emdad Shah

I am a sailor—before me lies a kingdom strange and vast
A city veiled in shadow, a beauty unsurpassed
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by Emdad Shah

The silver night of stars—I wake alone
The wind ripples in blue where waves are sown
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by Emdad Shah

With eyes of kohl and shadows deep
A broken heart she's pledged to keep
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by Emdad Shah

Deep night descends upon the sleeping sea
Lone helmsman, wake!
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by Emdad Shah

Since you have no sleep within your eyes
I too have shunned the dark of endless skies
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by Emdad Shah

O, wretched soul, that never saw the moon
Who knows no laughter in the fruitless tune
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by Emdad Shah

That bowl of milk, the glowing font of light
Dear uncle moon crawls slow and fills the night
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by Emdad Shah

My life was once a barren track of sand
A stubborn void, unyielding and austere
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by Emdad Shah

I went to tell the moon my heart's unspoken mind
Then softly moved the gentle breeze
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by Emdad Shah

Far away in a fairytale land so deep
Where clouds and mountains together sleep
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by Emdad Shah

Beside the forest edge a broken moon doth gleam
My lonely, wandering eyes await a distant dream.
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by Emdad Shah

Beside the Atlantic's whispering, restless steep
Thy burning eyes outshone the starry deep
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by Emdad Shah

Neela, gaze not upon me so
In this long silver fiery night
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by Emdad Shah

Thou came last night in guise divine and bright
Thou came last night in silence of the night
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by Emdad Shah

Thy foes are like the midnight, dark and deep
A loveless fiend from hidden gulfs upborne
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