Selected Poem - April, 2023
The Fatal Hour by Rukha Khalid - Pakistan
Muse to eyes in witnessing things
Nature girdling me like two wings
Serene tranquility in River that flows
Can turn to calamity upon overflow
The Universe can crush in pulse
With Celestial Audacity from up-above!
For same that chalked out patterns
O' The World full of Captains!...
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She! by Rafia Asghar Ali - Pakistan
A wrinkled dusky visage
With slender eyes losing its sight
Manifest her fight with the vicious world
A hump on her fragile back
Embodies the burden of hardships
And trials she fought years back...
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Racism by Ayna Nadeem - Pakistan
Tracing back
To the roots of our religion
In the era
When peace came
Under the banner of our beloved Prophet (PBUH)
Whose kindness was for all mankind
Irrespective;
Non-discriminative,
An embodiment of Justice!
The poor and the rich
Standing side by side
There was hope,
Read More Comment(s) 1Selected 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?...
Read More Comment(s) 0Selected Poem - May, 2022
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...
Read More Comment(s) 0Selected Poem - May, 2022
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...
Read More Comment(s) 0Selected Poem - February, 2022
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...
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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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