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You Live In Beautiful Circles diamonds, topaz,

by Harjeet Singh (Nagpal) rubies ...
alias Sahir Dehlvi and emeralds ...
in colors
Begum, you live in that will
beautiful circles ... never fade ...
and are always or get
surrounded ... washed
by page three over time ...
society ... by weather
women and men ... or sunlight ...
the glitterati
and Some of
the paparazzi press ... your bangles ...
are always
Your hair is always chiming ...
tied immaculately ... some forgotten
in a bun and strains of
held responsibly ... romance ...
by pins and pearls like a song ...
and partly veiled like a poem ...
with a loose like blues ...
ribbon-like scarf ... like jazz
with lady-like with each
modesty gesture and turn ...
in hijab ... of your delicate
least their fingers ...
sheer length ... wrists and
wavers you hands ...
into ...
unwanted As a matter of
entanglements fact ...
you walk, you talk
A simple you rock, you sing
gold band you glide, you fly
adorns itself ... like Waltz ...
and collars your like Indian Kathak ...
slender neck ... like Arabic Raqs ...
with the family like Spanish Flamenco ...
insignia ... like our last Tango
announcing in Buenos Aires ...
your heritage ... like old time
embedded in retro Bollywood
carefully razzmatazz ...
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 like Cuban of carriage
Cha-Cha-Cha ... and dress ...
like dance ... that sets you
like dance ... apart from ...
like dance ... the common ...
the crude ...
You are draped and
in flowing silks ... the shameless ...
in exquisite
chiffons ... The ebbing
in high-neck waves salute
sleeved blouses ... the shores ...
and tunics after high tide
that contrast from ...
or pleasantly the Indian ocean
match that bowed ...
and when you touched and
walk past ... kissed ...
there is the sands
temporal silence of time
a shudder on which ...
a wave you stand
like the irresistible and walk
nostalgia of ... on enchanting
the scent tree-lined
of a woman... pastoral lands ...
like something laden with
classic from ... the fragrance
ancient times of soil ...
yet ... that has
never-the-less ... only recently
always fresh ... been
rain-drenched ...
And after saying farewell
you are gone ... saying khuda hafiz
there are echoes (or may God be with you ...
of applause ... in Urdu ...)
for you saying alvida
for your charm (or good-bye,
for what you till we meet again ...)
personify
and hold dear You are
to your heart remembered
and your with honor
dignified sense ... and reverence ...
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 even while of gun-shots
youre hale into the air ...
and alive ... farewell my friend ...
with farewell comrade ...
the dignity you are remembered
reserved today and always ...
only with honor
for the dead ... and reverence
like in a is messaged
posthumous to the dead ...
guard of honor
for a fellow You are greeted
war veteran ... with aplomb ...
with clasps of and ceremonious
uniformed hands protocol ...
against rifle-butts ... like a 21-cannon
lowered guns regal salaam ...
in reverse arms ... to a nations visiting
and Emperor or King ...
caps off heads ... or a President and
and as Head of State ...
the buglers play with the loud
"La muerte no es el final" sounds of
the Spanish version of military
"Death is not the End" ... brass bands ...
and sound the last post and the regular
with the tune "Taps" ... pounding of
the contingent marching feet ...
lowers their eyes but amidst the din
silence prevails one can hear ...
for a a dream ...
ceremonial tribute a soft cry ...
a silent prayer mounting to
and in the end ... a scream
may his soul may your legacy
be always blessed go on ...
is said ... may you never
but for some its die ...
just ... we offer you
Masha Allah ! our welcome
who was that ? ... our salute
and as the coffin our tribute
is lowered and our salaam ...
finally interred ...
with a volley A beautiful
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 naval-strap ...
(kamar-band) ... I can't
draws imagine ...
attention ... loving you
to your more ...
slim waist ... without
the risk of
Your feet collapsing ...
are held ... under
in caged the stress ...
shoe-straps ... of a racing
least they pulse and ...
soil when ... an almost
you walk certain ...
our earth ... heart-attack ...

I needn't Your eyes

mention any are soft ...
description... illuminated ...
of your telling and ...
contoured they seem
shoulders to chat ...
bosom and
breasts ... Those who
let them stay go into ...
just as their depths ...
beautiful as are always
they are ... rewarded ...
by a different ...
I have never an interesting ...
indulged in ... a feminine ...
the fetish of twist in the tale ...
imagining you that provides
naked and solace ...
undressed ... and countless
there never was reasons ...
any reason to live by ...
for anything and look
like that you up ...
each day ...
I love you
so much ... You live in
just beautiful circles ...
the way ... and I ...
you are ... in difficult ...
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 side-lines ...
All I can do
to please you ...
is to
come back ...
running like
a faithful dog ...
that you
mistakenly ...
by oversight ...
left
unleashed ...
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July, 2015
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Harjeet Singh (Nagpal)
alias Sahir Dehlvi
from Bhopal, India
Comments and criticism are
welcome.
sahirdehlvi@gmail.com
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Inspirational
Acknowledgements:
I am indebted to the Urdu Poet
Afzal Ahmad Syed from Pakistan,
for his beautiful poem Tum
Khubsurat Da'iron Men Rahti Ho
which has been translated by Asif
Farrukhi and Frances W. Pritchett
in an anthology of postmodern
Urdu poets translated into English,
entitled An Evening of Caged
Beasts. The translated title You
Live in Beautiful Circles has also
been used by me and I
understand that titles of literary
works are outside the preview of
copyright.
I also acknowledge the influence
of the beautiful 1992 Academy
Award (Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Actor and Best Adapted
Screenplay) winning film The
Scent of a Woman produced and
directed by Martin Brest based on
Il buio e il miele (Italian:
Darkness and Honey) by Giovanni
Arpino starring Al Pacino and Chris
ODonnell while composing my
work.
More specifically, it is the
inspirational influence of the
Tango scene in this film with the
song "Por una Cabeza" (Performed
by The Tango Project) a tango with
music and lyrics written in 1935
by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le
Pera respectively.
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 Thank You
(You can watch the Tango
scene here: Harjeet Singh /
https://www.youtube.com/wat Sahir Dehlvi
ch?v=F2zTd_YwTvo
The Tango - Scent of a Woman July 13, 2015
Movie CLIP (1992) HD)
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