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The Naked Prophet: Poems and Fragments of Consciousness
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A 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.
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