Selected Poem - July, 2021
Love's a Promise ! by Syeda Faiza Babar - Pakistan
Unfulfilled dreams and tears unwept
Words that are said aren’t actually meant
Letting you down and making you fall
Love it is, that’s what they call
It leaves you with a shattered heart...
Read More Comment(s) 3Selected Poem - June, 2021
Nightmare by Maham Fatima - Pakistan
I saw it lurking in darkness
An indomitable phantom
A most arcane creature
Utterly disheveled yet oddly familiar
Visage marred with unbridled carnality
Compelling me to avert my eyes
As it approached me
My pulse leapt into my throat
And my heart skittered to a stop
It’s unrelenting and vile gaze
Arrested the breath from my lungs
Until I found myself grappling for air...
Read More Comment(s) 7Selected Poem - May, 2021
The Serenity I Long For! by Duaa Shahid - Pakistan
A group of foggy stratus clouds
Hides all the mountain tops
And the sprinkled snow over the surface
Looks like the drops fallen from the clouds
The cedar trees exist in random positions...
Read More Comment(s) 1Selected Poem - May, 2021
The Serenity I Long For! by Komal Naeem - Pakistan
The Serenity I long for,
Is to not think what happens tomorrow,
But be able to reside only in the present.
So that my heart’s silent,
and never desires anything more.
The Serenity I long for,
Is when all I hear around,
Is the Earth’s sound,
When it revolves on its axis...
Selected Poem - April, 2021
Faith in Divinity by Komal Naeem - Pakistan
When you lose yourself,
in the darkest times.
You feel yourself entrapped,
and the walls are closing in on you.
from one hopeless situation to another.
You feel like letting yourself go,
in the abyss around.
But...
Read More Comment(s) 0Selected Poem - March, 2021
A Drop of my Heart Escaped my Existence ! by Dirha Qazi - Pakistan
A drop of my Heart escaped my existence.
Burgeoning, expanding, embracing the ambience
Crawling upwards, Pushing against the bars;
Dancing and laughing upon the world’s Transience
Escaping, as if nothing ever held it in past...
Read More Comment(s) 4Selected Poem - March, 2021
Colors by Mirza Asfandyar Baig - Pakistan
Like a black null void
It slithers in ruins
Only painted
In the darkness
Revering it profoundly
Whilst I paint the canvas...
Read More Comment(s) 0Selected Poem - March, 2021
Confessions of a Deferred Muse by Rizwan Akhtar - Pakistan
--for Rebecca
The silence this time is of different tone
wedged between a feather and a bird
an unwincing wind scatters its body
but you are simply intact and whole
though my interventions cluttered ...
Read More Comment(s) 3Selected Poem - February, 2021
The Shrill Shrieks of Silence by Ayeza Yousaf - Pakistan
The wind howled like a hound,
Windows clattered and then sound,
A sudden crack on the roof,
And a splatter of blood on the floor...
Read More Comment(s) 0Selected Poem - January, 2021
Transition by Mubashra Malik - Pakistan
When Cocooned in a mother’s arms
Upon a gentle brush of lips, I thought
It is soft, fierce and wonderful.
Tiny hand wrapped around a father’s finger
Upon the sight of twinkling eyes with smile, I thought
It is deep wrapped with pride.
...
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