Poetry

By Zubair Nazeer Can you sow the seeds of hope? This garden is so fertile yet barren Can you fetch a drop of water? This ocean is so...

By Sandeep Koul It was late, and... I was just getting cosy, drowsy under the warm blanket when all of a sudden,   I heard a loudspeaker shout in the neighbouring mosque’s minaret.   The sounds pierced much...

By Santosh Bakaya Memory etchings of a bygone clime Engraved like graffiti in my heart Spouting a silent rhyme That serene scene not keen to depart That bubbly bonhomie Now...

By Syed Sayim Hark, hark the ugly tale of beautiful dale With cardiac wounds everyone dost wail   Look how it burns in patriotic wave One more martyr succumbed...

By Santosh Bakaya In this Paradise your sojourn was brief You vanished plunging your family in grief. From one paradise You have travelled to another Pack up your dreams,...

By Hirra Sultan She hovered around books Talking to mirrors and times to self Pretending being a small child Probably a compensation for the lost.   Busy in a reverie Neither...

By Huma Bhat I’m not Skin of this World, Not Either Skin of your World, The Colour of Rose is Red, with the Martyr’s Bloodshed, Wrapped in the...

By Santosh Bakaya Burhan, where have you gone, You know, no birds chirp in this sad dawn. Is it true that you have died? But were you not...

By Asma Firdous Come! Let's be together for a moment Forget that there’s a bustling market outside An ever moving caravan And be... what we've never been!   Let’s show off! the darkness of...

By Hirra Sultan Fed up with what was around And cursing system all the time Pointing out their blunders And criticising the same.   All that was needed was a...

By Hirra Sultan Unheard by parents And unheard by friends I found respite in indulgence Something people called drugs   I tried to talk and connect They shall know my plight All...

By Insha Bint Bashir   Wistfully, the night pays homage to the beguiling voices humming elegies with wounded tongues, remembering how the earthen nooks plagiarized the hesitant souls from the kindled bodies last night… Tediously, the night...

By Nehreen Nazir     The cradle within I was brought up Now the grave of unconsidered humanity The land which cater me with innocence Now holler in the blood...

By Asma Firdous     Call the moon upon your window Let the burrowed light Shine your being.   Illuminated in the darkest hour Ablaze in the frozen moment Summon all the untold Declare...

By Younis Kaloo     Many a time I think to leave my motherland Tread across the world for peace For those the lines in whose hand Hide in scars...