Selected Poem - January, 2023

Preternatural Times by Sufia Humayun - Pakistan
I still miss the times when
Qaria was just Qaria
Not seamstress- stitching clothes of her students
Not beautician- plucking eyebrows of her students' mothers'
Not moper/dish washer- moping/washing. . .
The times when students did mop and dish-wash
To pay for her services- Teaching recitation
With Qirat
Without Qirat...
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Selected Poem - December, 2022

Socrates on Mars Receiving Terrestrials by Sobia Kiran - Canada
O men!
I have been waiting for you
You took so long to reach here
I have been looking over you
With my fellow philosophers
Whom you quote so fervently
With least understanding
You profess our teachings
That you follow so reluctantly
You use our words to inspire others
Without following our advice in the world matters
What brought you here?...
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Light And Shadow by Maria Munir - Pakistan
The dark memory of our past
Was it the ever-last?
Daunting us
Haunting us
Living a lifetime of wrongs
Enduring the shadow
Of our past mistakes...
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That Pretty Smile by Bisma Tazeem - Pakistan
The hands were busy in sewing the shirt
The eyes were fixed on the needle
The baby was crying in her lap
Trying to eat out the dirt
The hands were fast and steady
So focused and so smooth
Smile on her face and she was ready
To make a shirt for her baby...
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Not so Fantastical Fantastic Beings by Muhammad Khurram - Pakistan
Perceive me not, I say
See my beauty in every pebble in your way
Hear me not, I say
Listen to the bulbuls singing our praise
Affirm me not, I say
Speak of grace and joyous days
For love is riddled with contradictions
Oxymoronic prepositions
Humble schemes and grand wishes
Impossible realizations: us, together
A thought with so much charge, reaching capacity overload
A short circuit, a flare up, a supernova burst
Swinging us so far out of our orbits that we
crash into one another...
Read More Comment(s) 1Selected Poem - January, 2022

Unrequited love by Qudsia Rehman - Pakistan
Ached so ached my heart is!
Just have a glimpse inside of it
It’s overfilled
With self-knitted stories of you and me
With the feelings enclosed and enveloped
Just not ready to be articulated
and revealed...
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Man by Qudsia Rehman - Pakistan
An object with flesh and bones
Inside all systems regulate and run
By listening to the brain,
How simple and basic it is...
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Eternal Voyage by Bushra Yasin - Pakistan
Come with me,
I’ll take you to a different world,
A world that lies within me,
A world that I created,
And a world that I rule.
You’ll meet those who live inside me,
Few rebels,
Few forgotten souls,
A dreamer that flies without wings,
And a leader that leads, through imagination...
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The Moon Game by Hajra Khan - Pakistan
It's okay to feel half,
Or nothing, nothing at all.
Shhh... Can you hear her silent plea?
How she gains when she falls,
How she knows her own path.
You'll never know if she cries, mourns or rejoices,
For she hides herself in daylight.
Away from the people, away from pain,
I have told you once and I'll tell you again...
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Selected Poem - August, 2021

An Early Awakening ! by Hafsa tariq - Pakistan
How I am is how I will be
I am tired of pretending
How good I am
Do they consider me?
Or don't they?
I don't know...
I am a phantom of love
Who promises to make moments
Not memories...
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