Poetry By Khalil Gibran

mazhar mehmood · #1 Monday, February 22, 2016

Body and Soul

A man and a woman sat by a window that opened upon Spring.

They sat close one unto the other. And the woman said, “I love you.

You are handsome, and you are rich, and you are always well-attired.”

And the man said, “I love you. You are a beautiful thought,

A thing too apart to hold in the hand, and a song in my dreaming.”

But the woman turned from him in anger, and she said,

“Sir, please leave me now. I am not a thought, and I am not a thing

That passes in your dreams. I am a woman. I would have you desire me,

A wife, and the mother of unborn children.”

And they parted. And the man was saying in his heart,

“Behold another dream is even now turned into mist.”

And the woman was saying, “Well, what of a man"

"who turns me into a mist and a dream?”

mazhar mehmood · #2 Monday, February 22, 2016

The Exchange

Once upon a crossroad a poor Poet met a rich Stupid, and they conversed.

And all that they said revealed but their discontent.

Then the Angel of the Road passed by,

And he laid his hand upon the shoulder of the two men.

And behold, a miracle: The two men had now exchanged their possessions.

And they parted. But strange to relate,

The Poet looked and found naught in his hand but dry moving sand;

And the Stupid closed his eyes and felt naught but a moving cloud in his heart.

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