Ghazal of Clouds

Deities perished in a realm of vast clouds,
Still haunting the skies as phantoms of past clouds.

Kabir is reading a poem in your dream.
Time passes like an endless storm of fast clouds.

Angels ascended into radiant winds,
Whose auras gleamed through a veil of vast clouds.

Storms stalled like diesels on the sky’s highway
& vanished like the spent fuel of their last clouds.

In years of drought nomads recite legends
Of gods who crossed the world riding fast clouds.

Steffen Horstmann

Steffen Horstmann's poems and book reviews have appeared in publications throughout the world, including Baltimore Review, Eastern Structures, Free State Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Louisiana Literature, San Antonio Review, Texas Poetry Journal and Tiferet. He has published two books of ghazals, Jalsaghar (2016) and Ujjain (2017).

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