Sanober Khan Quotes & Sayings

you make autumn mist
taste like champagne

and turn winter rain
into the elixir of life itself. — Sanober Khan

there have been mornings
so quiet and tender
like a poem, on Thursday's lips
that I wondered
if I'd been kissed at all... — Sanober Khan

I wouldn't mind
if life left me...

wingless

burnt to cinders
ripped by storms
scattered...like weeds

celestially wounded

without cherry blossoms
to perish with

but I would cry
with head held in my hands
if it left me...

unfulfilled. — Sanober Khan

let me die
from having being drunk on
indigo skies, my liver...
overflowing with stars. — Sanober Khan

to be a poet means
to live
with a permanent wound

forever
susceptible
to either

the shade
of the sky

or someone's eyes. — Sanober Khan

everything that is scattered
comes together in words

everything that is lost
comes back in poetry. — Sanober Khan

when i write of you, my dear
i am holding you
in the most
exquisite
ways. — Sanober Khan

you are ever
the only one

i want to give
all the peaches
in my heart to

the only one
by whom
i want them bruised. — Sanober Khan

Look at
how deeply flawed
we are

and yet
capable of loving
so perfectly. — Sanober Khan

sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me. — Sanober Khan

be the kiss in my hair
that no one sees

move, when i move
sigh, when i sigh...

be that line from a poem
that i hold in my eyes. — Sanober Khan

A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise. — Sanober Khan

May our twilights mix together
like breath and breathlessness. — Sanober Khan

i am permanently
tanned
in the summer of poetry. — Sanober Khan

your gaze
across
my cheeks

turned them
into
strawberry fields. — Sanober Khan

when I finally begin to drift
into sleep
your memory is the...first
and the moonlight
the last, to kiss my face. — Sanober Khan

kisses... are
and always will be

the only language

that I will have
ever truly known. — Sanober Khan

you were
and always will be

that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the ground
beneath my life's trees

that first ever rose
to have fragranced
the rest of my memories. — Sanober Khan

I want to have a romance so grand,
it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words. — Sanober Khan

for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly. — Sanober Khan

words
like mysterious mermaids
come and live permanently
in the soft sweeps
and scars of my skin. — Sanober Khan

someday i will walk
under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. — Sanober Khan

holding
the evening
tremblingly close
to me

i weep
into
the sun

letting
the burden
of hope
lift off my chest

i realize

this is what
it means
to be free. — Sanober Khan

some poems froth
and foam and rise...

out of my morning cup of
mist-sweetened coffee. — Sanober Khan

I breathe in...
the fragrance
of love, and moist sand
the one
his roses left
on both my hands

I just keep on breathing
every moment
as much as I can
preserving it, in my body
for the day
it can't. — Sanober Khan

you are
as fleetingly beautiful

as a mother's tears
and a father's pranks

a brother's bachelorhood
and a best friend's bad mood

a bride's glittering jitters
and a handsome stranger's smile. — Sanober Khan

may
this poetry
be the home
you will someday
come back to. — Sanober Khan

the nights would be orphaned
without the sound of crickets chirping. — Sanober Khan

Give me
a moon-blanket night
to keep me warm

a long-gone smile
to comfort me

a pair of rain-blue eyes
to haunt me

a simple soul
...to love me. — Sanober Khan

poetry. i am not writing it.
(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light. — Sanober Khan

Love me...with all the abandon
of a sudden wild rain. — Sanober Khan

the sapphire depth
of my own love...startles
and warms
and wounds my soul. — Sanober Khan

If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea. — Sanober Khan

A single poem
is worth a hundred
cozy winter nights
kind words
and healed wounds. — Sanober Khan

Your words...
I hold them deep
like ancient skins
hold wrinkles. — Sanober Khan

love
wounds me
with soft pillows
with tender lips
and fingers — Sanober Khan

i write
because

it is
the only way

i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan

what is
more beautiful

tears, in someone's eyes
for me
or in my eyes
for them. — Sanober Khan

As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night's velvet slippers

I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars. — Sanober Khan

I want to read every book that's written
hear every song that was sung
I want to gaze at every cloud
and hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue. — Sanober Khan

some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan

Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes. — Sanober Khan

i can't always tell
what's better

long drives
in the star-spangled deserts

or long walks
along winding tea gardens. — Sanober Khan

The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning

my world is thinning
and it's all because
of one person I'm missing. — Sanober Khan

With callused hands
i tasted
the softness of the moon

in the coldest winds
i discovered
my soul's
warmest fireplace

in the roughness
of his stubble
the tenderest love. — Sanober Khan

depth and substance.
the two most exquisite qualities.
be it in a poem
or a person. — Sanober Khan

may my faith always be
at the end of the day

like a hummingbird...returning
to its favorite flower. — Sanober Khan

Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me

to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song. — Sanober Khan

This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm. — Sanober Khan

I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
Of home. — Sanober Khan

I had embraced you...
long before i hugged you. — Sanober Khan

i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings. — Sanober Khan

Watch, how the sun
slowly rises
from behind my ear

new lines, new countries
spring up in my palms

my rough hair
become swaying silk

and all the leaves
in my body
become lusher than fruits. — Sanober Khan

a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan

Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan

i hope that
whoever you are
wherever you are
and no matter how
you are feeling

you will always
have something
to smile about. — Sanober Khan

Some days I don't know what is greater.
My wisdom, or my stupidity. — Sanober Khan

leave me some music
that's chocolate
for the heart. — Sanober Khan

You ask
if I will write a poem
I could,
I suppose
write the most
splendiferous
one of all

but not
right
now
not when

your hands
are brewing
warm
cinnamon tea
across my skin

not when I'm
trying to imagine
what might happen
if you began
flowering
kisses
upon
me

My dear,
how can
I write
a poem
when I'm already
inside one? — Sanober Khan

I was coming together...
limb by limb, after being broken
for an infinity. — Sanober Khan

i am either
a storm
or
a drought.

in-betweens
have never
been my thing. — Sanober Khan

for we all have
our own

twilights
and mists
and abysses

to return to. — Sanober Khan

Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't. — Sanober Khan

i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June. — Sanober Khan

stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his shirt. — Sanober Khan

Poems can get
sleepless too

and become

the loneliest thing
in the universe. — Sanober Khan

I live there...
Far above the song-filled clouds,
where the dewdrops touch my skin so bare
I live there. — Sanober Khan

How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't. — Sanober Khan

we are all like poems.
some of us rhyme. some don't.
some are Pulitzer prizes
some are just scribbles

and yet, we all possess
a special kind of beauty

that can either heal
or cut to the bone

one that can never quite
be fathomed, nor forgotten. — Sanober Khan

savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream. — Sanober Khan

Hands.
Cheeks.
Eyes.
Lips.
Neck.
Ears.
Thighs.
Heart.
Soul.

Ahh!
the things I get to
savor you with. — Sanober Khan

i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears. — Sanober Khan

I blink January's lashes
and gush down December's cheeks — Sanober Khan

...and so many colors
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the soft pink and purples
of spring
and summer blue
and so many others
without you. — Sanober Khan

Look, moon
I turned silver for you. — Sanober Khan

I do not want to sleep
for fear I might miss the twinkle of the brightest star

for fear I may never know
how the moon glimmers, in the darkest hour. — Sanober Khan

how can i ever
breathe normally again

after having been cradled
by the kind of sorrow
so silent, that it nourishes

after having been swept
by the kind of joy
so absolute, that it wounds. — Sanober Khan

What's a rainy day
without some delicious
coffee-flavoured loneliness? — Sanober Khan

I live there...

where the birds are infinite
everywhere

where they flee
it's a place your eyes can wander
but never see

Where everyone accepts me,
Without any pretense

It's a place your mind can picture
but never really comprehend. — Sanober Khan

I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes

I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might

I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined

I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time. — Sanober Khan

believe me when i say this.
when you love
someone.
you can
travel the world
in their laugh. — Sanober Khan

Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life. — Sanober Khan

tread carefully
into my life, my dear.

the currents
are strong.

you will get lost
in this
warm ocean
of my skin. — Sanober Khan

I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those...soul-reaching crystals

not moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart. — Sanober Khan

most of the times
it's the hardest
to say
what I love more

you

or

your memory. — Sanober Khan

it is to be savored like a
seabreeze-whispered

dream...in the mysterious
blue minutes
before dawn

like a secret
infatuation.... like slow
languorous sips

of green tea... like a lingering
glimpse

a self-wrapped
paradise

like his name
upon my lips. — Sanober Khan

i will forever be colliding
with a billion unnamed
undiscovered stars, each of us
on our own orbital paths. — Sanober Khan

For you
i have saved poems
under my skin. — Sanober Khan

A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account. — Sanober Khan

For it is up to you and me
to take solace
in nostalgia's arms

and our ability
to create
the everlasting
from fleeting moments. — Sanober Khan

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth. — Sanober Khan

Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world. — Sanober Khan

I am a tale, I am a book, written in different languages and styles

I can't be read, can't be understood,
neither by me nor the greatest of minds

I am too big, I am too small, to be processed or seen by the naked eye

I am too dim, I am too bright, to appear in the shadows or the sunshine. — Sanober Khan

kisses happen
when my morning
blueberry muffin
sails slowly
upon my savoring tongue. — Sanober Khan

the one
who will jolt awake
all the unwritten
the unsung
and the unlived
in me.

i am waiting
for him. — Sanober Khan

my love
for you
will always be
like a mountain stream.

quiet.
persistent.
continuous. — Sanober Khan

i have known you
since the beginning
of time

the one
i have loved always
in spirit.

only just discovered
in person. — Sanober Khan

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems. — Sanober Khan

Every heart must have
its private
bestseller book. — Sanober Khan

how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written. — Sanober Khan