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

[Chris Shaw]

Oh Sami, the opening lines really draw the reader in. This is another fine sonnet by your skilled pen. Love such a strong emotion. Yes, it lingers, it lingers when many partings have been and gone. Some torches burn forever. Delightful, poetry .

[Sami Khalil]

Your words are so beautiful too. You summed it up marvelously. Nothing like true love. Thank you so much dear poet and friend for all.

[Tom]

Where there is love or even hope of love, then therte will always be light even in those dark times many experience when at some point they find themselves alone in this world...

Point well made in fine poetic sonnet format, keep thet ink flowing Sami

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! So true and well-articulated dear poet and friend. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.

[Sk. Kamarul Islam]

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

[Sami Khalil]

Yes siiiirrrrr. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.

[Pryde Foltz]

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.

[Sami Khalil]

Wowzy woooo! So glad to see you visit and share your thoughts with us. Thank you kindly for the honor.

[andrew mitchell]

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.

[Sami Khalil]

Wowzy woooo! So true and well articulated. You have summed it up marvelously. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.

[Lisasview]

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

[Sami Khalil]

So true and well articulated dear poet and friend; lasting relationships are the bedrock of our lives. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.
Lisa in Spain as we speak

[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