The Naked Prophet: Poems and Fragments of Consciousness

THE NAKED PROPHETA solitary figure walks uphill- naked like a pure gentleman- rising beyond cities, religions, memories, and human noise.Part poetry, part meditation, part existential road scripture, The Naked Prophet is a minimalist literary journey through silence, modern civilisation, inner transformation, and the stripping away of inherited identity.In these pages: - empty trains move endlessly through unnamed landscapes, - newspapers disappear into traffic, - fog melts from country roads, - old women weep beneath trees, - moonlight inhabits abandoned huts, - and a man runs naked through towns after reading Lao Tzu until he becomes "the running" itself.Drawing from Zen stillness, Sufi longing, existential philosophy, and contemporary wandering life, Zakir Hossain creates a work that resists categories. These are not conventional poems, nor spiritual instructions, but cinematic fragments of consciousness-moments of seeing gathered from the edges of modern existence.At the centre of the book stands the mysterious figure of the Naked Prophet: not a religious authority, not a guru, but a symbol of human consciousness stripped bare before existence itself.Sparse, haunting, rebellious, and contemplative, The Naked Prophet invites readers into a world where silence speaks louder than ideology, and where truth appears briefly-like words fading from a fogged train window.For readers of: - Kahlil Gibran, - Rumi, - Lao Tzu, - Matsuo Bashō, - Nietzsche, - and meditative contemporary poetry rooted in stillness, solitude, and existential awakening.

Pagina's: 39, Paperback, Independently published