Places..Of The Heart

Places..Of The Heart/By Sami Khalil

A sad romance poem.

 

There lie...Places of the heart

Where orphaned words live domestic lives.

Neither fine fettles nor sacred texts dwell, except in postponed tomorrows.

Chaotic, perhaps, but the fleeting scenes

Are skillfully scripted among desultory

 apprehensions and frailty of echoes.

Intact, perhaps, but enough miswords can carry lovers’ diction down

The road of doltish broken heartedness, providing their own translations.

 

There lie…places of the heart

Where critics puzzle over the avant-garde of our blueness separations

 and recognitions of cherished memories.

Where strangers sleep through introductions and amble down the river banks of silence.

There, “being” is a mere concept exploring the voiced firsts of exhibits and undulations of images.

There lie…My heart and my fugitive soul

Waiting for you…My love!

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

And a heart awaits that one true thing that will make it feel at home.

[Lydia Shutter]

Heavy sigh! How gloriously romantic this is, Sami. Your choice of vocabulary is, as always, stellar. The artwork is gorgeous. I love this line, "amble down the river banks of silence." There is an easy breezy feel to that line...and actually to the whole poem. Waiting for the one you love takes away all the chaos and cures old heartache. Just beautiful. Lydi**

[Nisreen]

Sami this is stunning ................

[Terrence Chang]

Brilliantly written Mr Sami. Vivid words oozing out from mind to hands. Love to read it again and again.