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Turquoise Silence QUOTES

Turquoise Silence QUOTES

1 " some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

2 " ...so i will greet you
in a way
all loved things
are meant to be greeted

with a tear in my heart
and a poem in my eye. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

3 " there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind

while some just live
silently
in the heart

crumble, sometimes
dwindle
disappear
die

and are reborn
when you smile again. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

4 " it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to my descendants

so they know that I too,
have been bruised...by beauty. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

5 " because some things
sometimes

aren't ours to hold,

but just beautiful
to listen to. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

6 " i'm glad to be alive
in a world where
his gently awakening eyes
nourish the morning sun. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

7 " and the afterglow...
of your gaze...is the only
sweater that I need. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

8 " there is some aching
that will only heal...
in the mosque of sleep. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

9 " i want to
stay curled and cosied
and chocolated....forever
in my mother’s arms. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

10 " leave me some music
that’s chocolate
for the heart. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

11 " I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those...soul-reaching crystals

not moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

12 " Every heart must have
its private
bestseller book. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

13 " this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

14 " I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire
and frost of memories

of the everlastingness
of love

the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

15 " we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

16 " may my touch
always...be tender

as i would stroke
mother's cheeks
when she cried. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

17 " i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

i discover
it’s another way
for me
to be in tears. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

18 " how can i ever
breathe normally again

after having been cradled
by the kind of sorrow
so silent, that it nourishes

after having been swept
by the kind of joy
so absolute, that it wounds. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

19 " how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence

20 " give me
a pillow of strong
ever-dependable shoulders
that i can bury my head in. "

― Sanober Khan , Turquoise Silence