Embers’ Sonnet

By Naila Hina and نائلہ حنا

Embers' Sonnet

Engr Dr Naila Hina 

A Scifi fantasy novel in a style reminiscent of Milton and Mary Shelley's. 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Engineer Naila Hina
• Release date: Jan 22, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224019311

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Awful voice!

His horrible, hoarse, male voice

In which he expressed love

Inside it was a talisman

A hangover from many glasses

To win the trust of the beloved

Then upon it, was the glory of this drinker

Who called himself an earthly god

I understood

His pride was immense

Finding me, he felt like

The emperor of the five kingdoms

I understood

The woman inside me

He used to wake up

My hidden seasons

He did it just by the

Magic of his voice

Because that horrible sound too

When in love, spread

melodies around

In the sound of his

soft and stormy kisses

There was a reflection of

the poetry of the waterfalls

And his accent

Like the mottled softness

of a warm blanket

Cold fears inside me

Got vanished

And it provoked me to become

the queen of the seven heavens

It was my innocence, my stupidity

But that voice, which was terrible

It was a fuel for my fire.

January 8, 1998

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