Poetry
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Cherry blossom in the time of coronavirus
Who cares about the cherry blossom when coronavirus is a matter of life and death and the stocks are losing $ trillions in value! Let’s forget about this hoax-like disease and go about our lives freely,...March 13, 2020 1197 0 -
Poem of the week – A Little While
A Little While A little boy playing with words a little voice crying for love a little love wasting for you the senseless patterns of the garden butterfly the insistent urgency of the army motorcycle all...October 9, 2019 880 0 -
Poem – In the sunset of my day
Haiku effects – In the sunset of my day Alone on my way– friendless and foreign in the sunset of my day. Solitude of the fight stretched over years and always—fading light. A...September 14, 2019 774 0 -
A poem exploring the purpose of life
The purpose of life? What is the purpose of life? why are we here? the answers are all around us the Greeks aimed for happiness Aristotle even listed eleven virtues that would help achieve happiness he pointed to...August 26, 2019 2940 0 -
My Persian Paradox taught me how sharing stories helps create empathy, peace
The pain we carry from the past and don’t have time to think about will eventually come out and hit us. All this time, it has been sitting there waiting for an opportunity to talk and...August 19, 2019 1869 0 -
A poem on God’s mercy for father of a learned daughter
ON JUDGEMENT DAY I wrote this poem for my daughter a decade ago. She now faces a serious medical situation. I request the reader to heed a father’s plea and offer a prayer for her recovery...August 8, 2019 788 0 -
The poem beginning with the clap of thunder
Votive Peregrination The clap of thunder and jagged silence riding high in a momentary calm of synthetic awe. To witness emotions drilled in Time and fossilized like the luminous eyes of the loved ones now gone...June 27, 2019 1066 0 -
‘The Dragonfly and Other Poems’ reflects on Mashal Khan, blinded Kashmiris and much more
There is something about the old Frontier Province which lifts the heart when crossing the Attock into the land of the Pukhtun; the poet awakens. That is what Sir Evelyn Howell, the outstanding Pukhtunphile, wrote; or...June 16, 2019 1397 0 -
A poet’s anguish: ‘They are taking them away’
sullen shine the stars the moon in agony aloof so still stand the palm trees the seasons are bearing my dreams away sanity suspended while all the dark horrors of the mind uncoil slowly snakely settle...June 2, 2019 710 0 -
A poet’s reflections on twilight days and Delhi nights
Leave us here in our women’s chambers leave us here so secure chewing the lotus with lotus maiden amidst the fumes of a suspended past that waft away an uncertain future space so marble-cooled illusions so...April 7, 2019 1124 0
