Saturday, 1 November 2025

Poetry 2025 Longlist, Ali Ashhar

Walls Of My Heart 


The island of my soul holds 

umpteen tales in beautiful ways

ours is beautiful in umpteen ways—

the moonlight fades amidst her splendour

as I witness her aura on the dinner table. 

Her phone rings 

and she bids adieu to the moment

hastily, she drops her earrings;

I pick it up with a mesmerized heart

Under the pretext of returning the earrings; 

I yearn for her glimpse. 

Twelve days elapsed 

since the meeting in Paris

twenty-four hours of daydreaming

weren’t sufficient to suffice her aura; 

her incoming call was my alarm for the day, 

her voice my diet,

Next day, she asks for the meeting venue

I didn’t recall any place except 

the walls of my heart. 


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