Just a Thought

By Zoha Khokhar

A collection of personal poems, begun when I was 16, on anything and everything that comes to mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Aug 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499088700

Zoha Khokhar

I picked up a love for reading and writing at a very young age, and haven't stopped doing either since then. I've had a brief career as a teacher, writing poems and stories to teach as well as my own works on the side.

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Certain

There is a certain type of man

Who lives by paper, if he can.

But writes not theories or letters of state

Or laws for the country both little and great.

Though while those are worthy, a wonderful lot

For certain men they are certainly not.

For certain, for them, it is colour and word

It is paintings and stories and songs to be heard.

For certain, these men, they will sit and will stare

At shapes in the clouds and the smoke in the air

And listen to butterflies much of the time

Or the sound of the winter presenting its rime.

While ever about him the world is in haste

He is silent and still like a china-doll placed

And from up on his shelf, in his little glass box

He will listen and learn about life’s many knocks

Though he may never feel them, for it is quite plain

That the box which he lives in, in wind or in rain

Is comfort and shelter, a bright little world

And all of his future around it is curled

For this box is intention, ambition and hope

No mortal material could compass its scope

Nor hold it as fast as a hoping mind can

The mind of these certain eccentrics of Man.

Potion

Pen to paper, hand to pen

Twisting my words around again

Mind and body, heart and soul

Pouring like ink in a water-bowl

Spreading fast ’cross water-skin

Dipping and spinning further in

Coloured tendrils creeping ’round

Twisting with a whispered sound

Water clear now swirling black

While coloured hues flit here and back

And now the real creation starts

From breaking minds and twisting hearts

For through the