How Pages Turn

How Pages Turn

A Poem by Sami Khalil
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A romance poem

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How Pages Turn                by Sami Khalil



 

How pages turn and love for you still burns

Filling the books of yesteryears and now

As we bargain “Father Time” who but yearns

To charge us ‘health’ where uncertainties plow.

 

Mornings return when sunsets shy away

A lion caged beholds beacons of hope

For his kingdom had felt actively prey

As the queen’s reign danced upon a tight rope.

 

I know what is etched deep is designed for

For full living and to fill the great void

To stir the souls deadlocked, sacredly pour

The insatiable dreams slaked and wheels oiled.

 

Succumb not to despair, but build upon

Time departs hence, love lingers when all gone.

© 2024 Sami Khalil


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Enjoyed the sonnet. Good one. Love lingers when all gone.

Posted 2 Days Ago


Sami Khalil

1 Day Ago

Yes siiiirrrrr. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.
Super, super metaphysical write.
I know what is etched deep is designed for

For full living and to fill the great void

To stir the souls deadlocked, sacredly pour

The insatiable dreams slaked and wheels oiled.

I am struck by the superb word choice and philosophical message contain within.

Posted 3 Days Ago


Sami Khalil

3 Days Ago

Wowzy woooo! So glad to see you visit and share your thoughts with us. Thank you kindly for the hono.. read more
I think love is free, unconditional but we tie it down changing love to conditional which is not true love at all. A fine write to ponder on Sami, you captured the essence of love in this one.

Posted 5 Days Ago


Sami Khalil

5 Days Ago

Wowzy woooo! So true and well articulated. You have summed it up marvelously. Thank you kindly for.. read more
Really quite wonderful dearest Sami,
Really enjoyed the read...
Did you realise that verse three has for at the end of the first line and again For at the beginning of the second line...
True love is what I often write about... and so I of course related to your poem...
Sadly not many have taken the time to work on a relationship...because as I know work is what is needed to make a long lasting happy, love relationship last....
Lisasview, now in Spain

Posted 1 Week Ago


Sami Khalil

1 Week Ago

So true and well articulated dear poet and friend; lasting relationships are the bedrock of our live.. read more
Sami,
Sounds like you are writing from personal experience. I'm seventy-five years old and am unhappy no one told me how expensive the flow against "Father Time," what a perfect image! And from what I can see, there are too many deadlocked souls who have forgotten their dreams.
Vol

Posted 2 Weeks Ago


Sami Khalil

2 Weeks Ago

OMG!
So true and well articulated dear poet and friend. All personal experiences and future a.. read more
Such a finely written sonnet, Sami. It lends its format to that feeling of arms enclosing true and lasting love Could it be a recipe that with all the right ingredients provides and proves the very best from generation to generation forever? Sighing with the thoughts your words conjur.

Posted 2 Weeks Ago


emmajoygreen

2 Weeks Ago

We could quite easility write a book if we go on with these messages!!! Shhhhhh :)
emmajoygreen

2 Weeks Ago

Easility? I don't think that is a word.. or is it! Shhh
Sami Khalil

2 Weeks Ago

Hehehe.......
Great loves endure trials of time. Your sonnets makes me yearn for such a precious love of my own..
Well done on a lovely piece of writing..

Posted 3 Weeks Ago


Sami Khalil

3 Weeks Ago

So true and well said dear poet and friend. You have summed it up marvelously. I can't agree more... read more
Yes, Sami, love lingers as we wither. Love takes no holiday because we become frail, and stays and belongs to those we affect even after we are gone. Your "turning of the page" is a great metaphor for how love, like a good book will stay with all the people who have read it. Sami, besides the title of POET, we could add 'MASTER SONNETEER'. Well written Sami!!
Curt

Posted 3 Weeks Ago


Sami Khalil

3 Weeks Ago

Wow! What an honor indeed coming from a gifted writer par excellence like yourself; I consider it a .. read more
Yes, love is eternal and the real thing that lasts.

Posted 3 Weeks Ago


Sami Khalil

3 Weeks Ago

Wowzy woooo! I so appreciate and agree with you dear poet and friend.
All rich blessings.
To do a simple review in return...but, alas! Not so!
I read a deeply ingrained seed of lasting love.
The author cannot bargain Father Time away. I feel you.
The rest of the poem is chilling to my soul with hope, memories and the fact "love lingers on".
Beautiful.

Posted 3 Weeks Ago


Sami Khalil

3 Weeks Ago

Wow! I love how you summed it up marvelously. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experi.. read more

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