Schezerade
Are raconteurs good wives? Consider the thousand tales Each she carefully spun To satiate a sadist’s hunger. Call it a web of deceit! Yet, never...
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Shunyata- Nothingness
#atensyllabledDecima #ArtoonsInnPoetryParlour Shunyata/Nothingness Nothing was there, to nothing we return. Seek the ever unfolding horizon; All’s a mirage, life’s naught but illusion. Each being walks...
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Smothering with Love
May 21 Another day, perhaps, another week Weakness has set in, my mind’s in a tizzy Buckets to clear away nausea, I can’t for the...
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Sita's Plea
Sita poured her heart out To the silent trunks and endless trees “If nature were my lover I’d sing about no city, No paens, I’d...
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Dull Sundays
#NaProWriMo21 #Day5 # haiku & couplet dull Sundays offer, creased bedsheets, scattered blankets, stale cigarette smoke. *** messy counterpanes, yellowed spillage; wine glasses, greasy plates,...
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Haiku
#NaProWriMo21 #babysteps #day3 a mother’s love glows baby steps fumble, childhood journeys shape bold dreams *** Mumtaz N Khorakiwala (Batool Idrish Siamwala) 4-3-21 Picture courtesy:...
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Soul Searching
#Naprowrimo21 #Day4 Fatema, Azra, Aasia, Marium and Batool Realised the power of prayers They invoked in tears, earnestly the Divine And were lit by pure...
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Bridges
#Naprowrimo21 #Day1 To Scarlett, Rhet Butler and Ashley And to Nanny, who tightened Scarlett’s corset To the likes of Gerald O’ Hara, and his many...
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Humility
#naprowrimo #2nd April entree “Thank you”, my heart sang, In a deep sense of gratitude. As I sat watching the mighty waves, Rising slowly cresent-...
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Touch-Me-Not
#Poattic-7 A touch-me-not shies away from feel, Should a woman do so too? Is that why she’s named Lajwanti? Lajjo, she’s called by dear ones,...
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Blueberry Woman
#Poattic-7 Let them all turn blue For once, she’d all mighty Gods shew With her awakening -all myths, Legends and folk tales- would die. These...
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In Bits and Pieces I Exist…
#Poattic-7 In bits and pieces I exist. My excellence is attributed to a parent, My attitude to another parental house At the base of my...