To be or Not to be
By Anwar Hussain
You’re the teacher, you’re the taught
You’re the lesson, you’re naught
Look within, seek and you shall find
Perishable your body, imperishable your soul, your...
Trapped in Traps
By Syed Tajamul Hussain
A dot of beauty, history is enough for it
Many have left homes to take glimpse of it
Paradise on earth, everyone was...
Tomorrow, It May be Your Family’s Star
By Shuja Ashraf
We come from the land of rich heritage and culture,
The land of lakes, mountains and the endless flower,
In the land where red...
Bring My Gavaskar Back!
By Santosh Bakaya
“Bring my Gavaskar back!"
Wailed the devastated mother of the budding cricketer
Nayeem Qadir Bhat, a top order batsman
His parents’ darling.
The larks singing overhead
Lost...
Interpreter of Silence
By Zubair Nazeer
Don't be so silent, interpreter of silence;
My words hardly make any sense;
Little do they please any human heart;
Give life to my silence through...
Wicked Silhouettes
By Saima Rashid
Look...
Those silhouettes
Are coming to derail
The calm of the
Hamlet!
Men, Simmering!
Women, worrying.
Youth, fuming.
Children, sobbing...
Are they on prowl
To resurrect
The dark times? -
The one
That proved
Blackhole of
Our...
CRY!
By Shuja Ashraf
It’s been million years burning this way, inside the core
The buried trees turned into diamonds and some into coal;
Still the selfish creature...
Beyond the Realm of Imagination
By Zubair Nazeer
I was surrounded by the things of nature at every moment
How do I explain the loneliness in my life?
In the courtyard of the...
Maybe
By Hirra Sultan
Walls closing in...
Maybe trying to form a shell
A layer all around
Maybe it was time
to undergo metamorphosis
to let things go
For that conceptual reward
Being...
Transformation
By Syed Zumair Bukhari
Isolated every now and then, up the creep,
Life goes on with musings of heap;
Hollowness tempts me deepen deep,
Blissful often unhollows me,...
Let Candles Cry Full Tonight
By Waqas Khan
Let women and candles cry full tonight
For Kunan is left in its darkest sight
A burn such is sensed by their woeful hearts
Which...
A Bride in Shroud
Waqas Khan
Dark was destiny that draped the day
Dark was my home, too dark was alley
In the heart of Pulwama, when two souls left
To blissful...
When The Willow Wept
Santosh Bakaya
14 February dawned like any other day
Like every day the trees rustled
Every house, with fresh notes and sounds bustled.
From the Willow tree the...
Moments of Loss, Despair
By Hirra Sultan
The light of soul may dim sometimes
And the situation be all bleak
The darkness slowly creeps in
Aura turning all blue!
Eyes blinded by floods,
Not...
Kashmir Delirium
By Perveiz Ali
Oh, People Of Earth! Thankful are we,
For each act of benevolence shown to us.
Your gilded sweet words describing,
The beauty of Kashmir, land...
