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Like A Season Goes By ..

Posted in Descriptions, Love, My Published Poetry, My Random Thoughts, My poems, Personal, Poetry, Published Poems, Rain Poems, Random poetry, fiction, inspiration in poetry, longing, metaphorical, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 9, 2009 | 14 Comments »

The flowers on your
embroidered dopatta would
remain fresh,
(like the ones I would place
in your locks)
soaked in the midnight rains
of your eyes;
now, sighs, that formed
the thick rain-clouds
are no more to rise
as you trample the wilted
leaves of our blooming love
evoking thoughts
of an autumn that came too soon

P.S: I was taken by a pleasant surprise to see a publication [...]

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Pushto Hykos In Translation

Posted in Favorite Poetry, Published Poems, Random poetry, inspiration in poetry, metaphorical, tagged , on April 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Original In Pushto By Rahim Khan Majrooh
Translated By Syed Aadil Omer
1)
True; the threats of floods are there
But I’ll keep planting flowers by the river
For, who’s relinquished life in fright of death?
2)

Just to keep my feel alive
I wash my wounds with salty water,
Lest, who’d choose to inflict [...]

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In Print ..

Posted in My Published Poetry, My Random Thoughts, Published Poems, Random poetry, Youth, inspiration in poetry, tagged , , , , on January 31, 2009 | 13 Comments »

Amid the days when things aren’t that great, I’m happy for this
On another note, this couplet of Hasrat Moohani is visiting my brain quite regularly;
kat gayee ehtiat-e-ishq may umr,
hum say izhar-e-muda’a na huwa!

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2008-A Blogging Context

Posted in Descriptions, My Published Poetry, My Random Thoughts, My poems, Pakistan, Personal, Published Poems, Tributes, inspiration in poetry, society, tagged , , , , , , , on December 30, 2008 | 25 Comments »

The year 2008 will soon be drifted in to the oblivion with the emergence of the dawn of 2009 less than 40 hours from now. Unlike the last quarter of 2006 and the whole of 2007, the departing year added a lot to my blogging experience, spanning well over two years, notwithstanding the number of [...]

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It surely encourages ..

Posted in Descriptions, Love, My Published Poetry, My Random Thoughts, My poems, Published Poems, Random poetry, Youth, inspiration in poetry, longing, tagged , , , , , , on December 27, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Its always encouraging to see one’s name in print against something and that too in a leading youth magazine like Us.
This time around, it helped me boast a bit, in front of an eternally unimpressed family members who surprisingly encouraged me too to continue with the ‘non-sense’ I write on and off, as they said. [...]

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In Print..

Posted in Descriptions, Love, My Published Poetry, My Random Thoughts, My poems, Published Poems, Random poetry, Youth, tagged , , , on October 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »

This poem was published in yesterdays issue of The News’ Us magazine.
Am happy for the poem to be circulated throughout the country via print

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Published

Posted in Descriptions, My Random Thoughts, My poems, Published Poems, Random poetry, tagged , , , , , on September 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »

It feels good to be acknowledged and published in a lovely magazine like Us
I’m having a fortunate run of late in terms of being considered for publications. It surely will boost my confidence to write better.
Hope they will be as supportive as they are!

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