Poem Of The Month - April, 2022
My Encounter with God by Dieter Bruhn - United States
This story I tell you
Is truth, no façade,
In a faraway land,
My encounter with God.
I was rafting a river
With rapids so strong,
When I fell in the water
And then things went wrong...
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The colours of spring by Nazish Batool - Pakistan
The melody of tiny drops of rain
With its sweet, sagacious sound
Makes the flowers wake up in full bloom.
All embellished with colorful ornaments
On their fascinating faces and figures
Dancing and banging their heads along,
Twining and twinkling, they welcome us in spring...
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The Two-Headed Dragon by Dieter Bruhn - United States
I once climbed a mountain
In a faraway land,
Clad in my armor
With a sword in my hand,
In search of a dragon
Whose legend spread far.
“I know I will find you,
Wherever you are.”
Those words I did speak,
As the distance grew long.
Not ready to tire
As my body felt strong...
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Poem Of The Month - January, 2022
Prayer by Muhammad Khurram - Pakistan
May your day be light
by the beauty of your soul
and dim when needed,
adjusting to meet the day.
The demands. The demands. Always the demands.
Calling you forth.
Exhausting.
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A Walk on the Moon can never be the same! by Anum Khalid - Pakistan
A walk on the moon can never be the same
As a walk on the moon lit earth, where you are not for a moment alone
Even on the darkest of the dark nights
Even when aloneness with its sharp teeth bites
Even when no one is there to hold your hands tight
Even when everything seems not at all right
Moon with all its affection gazes...
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Joy will Come one Day! by Hafsa tariq - Pakistan
O youthful! O sorrowful days!
Why are you so cruel and callous?
I'm a soft-hearted soul with a pure heart
I live in the abhorring world of my kin
How can your joyous life turn into enmity?
I am the voice of that wingless bird,
Whose tears nobody can see
Whose laughing voices are wandering...
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Compost Species by Muhammad Khurram - Pakistan
There is no ‘the’ in the fantasies of nature
Putting an ‘ies’ in fantasies doesn’t cut it either
For Nature in its multifariousness dwarfs human imagination
For human is part of nature, so
Nature’s fantasies are compost
Refused, recycled
Inorganic matter suffused with organic, dying and living
Harmonious living without aging is an anti-Nature fantasy
As is an accelerated, break-neck evolutionary speed
For islands drown, continents crash into another
But, only after millennials...
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A Broken Meeting ! by Aaisha Umt Ur Rashid - Pakistan
When waited I
To see your face
When stopped the time
My heartbeat’s pace
When I became a worthless bum
You did not come…
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Dreams: A Chorus by Muhammad Khurram - Pakistan
In dreams begin poems,
As both are tenants of the crevice that
make-love in the muffling
in doorways coming and going
in the hours between dawns
Celebrating with full heart what is here,
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
surviving in a transparent, ghostly, vividly coloured and easily forgotten
state
but, remembered because the body remembers and the mind dreams of
violence
and, of woven air, running water, evening dew
because life is so much more than the misery in our marrow
and the deferral, the death of things,
of beings
of us - multi-tongued, we live in a canopy of cacophony
hot, flashing visions. Dreams we dare not dream
are the bars to ourselves...
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Nostalgic Euphoria by Dirha Qazi - Pakistan
Today it smelled
just like the Air of Naran, as if the mist,
it carried, sublimated right from the valley of Kaghan.
and the soft touch of its twirling wind transported
my spirits in past,
as if Elysian fairies had cast an incantation,
with the purpose to outlast,
my finite existence...
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