How Pages Turn

A romance poem

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.

Reviews

[Vol]

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

[Sami Khalil]

OMG!
So true and well articulated dear poet and friend. All personal experiences and future anticipation. We all go through them.
Million thank yous sir.

[emmajoygreen]

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.

[Sami Khalil]

An honour to have you read and shared your liking of this formatt and the thoughts, sentiments within. Love is indeed the perfect recipe for filling the void in our souls, for sharing our intimacy, for pain and forgiveness regarding flaws.
Glad you visited and enjoyed!

[emmajoygreen]

Whatever you write and present is wonderfully done, Sami. My pleasure.

[Sami Khalil]

Wowzy woooo! Thanks a million dear poet and friend.

[emmajoygreen]

The truth and nothing but.. ..

[Sami Khalil]

::::::)))))))))

[emmajoygreen]

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

[emmajoygreen]

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

[Sami Khalil]

Hehehe.......

[Tan-90]

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..

[Sami Khalil]

So true and well said dear poet and friend. You have summed it up marvelously. I can't agree more. Thank you kindly for all.

[redzone]

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

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! What an honor indeed coming from a gifted writer par excellence like yourself; I consider it a gift from the gifted. I so love your Nerudan style sonnets too. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us

[Thomas W Case]

Yes, love is eternal and the real thing that lasts.

[Sami Khalil]

Wowzy woooo! I so appreciate and agree with you dear poet and friend.
All rich blessings.

[ronnieperrie]

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.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! I love how you summed it up marvelously. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with.

[Pete]

... and to think that i thought that all it takes is a wet finger. thank heaven that something yearns to stick around. so eloquently said.

[Sami Khalil]

Hehehe! So true and well said dear poet and friend. Thank you so much sir Pete for the smile and review. I hope you linger in love.

[MsJewel]

I love the wonderful rhyme in this beautiful romantic poem. Lovely :) Julie

[Sami Khalil]

An English sonnet; glad to see you visit and share your thoughts and experiences with us.
Always a pleasure. Thank you kindly.