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Mushtaq Barq Posted On January 18, 2021

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A chronicle of ail of the Vale
under the green and honey canopy
graves and gardens grew
what shadows! What shades!

Beneath the mount of natural vast
tombstone of many a Syeds
now that a hideout of hides and hallows
and in their hollow bellies
buds and bullets in a ritual share,
the serum of soul and blood of yore.

On the verbs of honey
what whisper has evoked the deity
that at midnight in human gown
reaches to every town
where, a seesaw and rope
had a limb bothered and hanged.

No more supernaturals live
under its shade,
but a conflict
like the date of death
invisible on Syed’s headstone

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Mushtaq Barq

Mushtaq B Barq is a poet, a short story writer, translator, and critic, who has many poetic translations to his credit. He has translated famous Kashmiri Sufi-poets Wahab Khar and Soche Kral into English. His elucidative work on the Sufi-philosophy entitled 'The Wings of Love' has earned him applauds throughout the world. His other books 'Feeble Prisoner', 'The Streak of Light', 'Withered Petals', and a novel 'Shades and Shadows ' have been acclaimed in English Literary circles. The American Poetry Association has awarded him Editor’s Choice Poetry Prize in 2007. He is also the recipient of Khillat-e-Noor felicitation for his writings on Sufi thought in Kashmir. The author is a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Fiction Writers Guild.