POETS' CORNER

On Dreams and Reality...

For those chosen few who have access to a reality that surpasses the beauty of dreams...

“Although you may consume sweet desserts, roast meat, and pure wine.

Know that (if) you consume water in a dream,

When you get up from the dream you will [still] be thirsty.

For the water you consume in a dream causes you no benefit.”

- Jalaluddin Rumi

[Translation by Ibrahim Gamard and Ravan Farhadi]

Lifelong short story

By Mashaal Farid

A night passed,

I felt an add to my creases.

Again,

I scored a hollow sphere

Shallow like my heart.

Regarding our relation, I failed all my thesis

But...

Often when you can’t gather yourself

You break me into a million pieces

The bright daylight showed; that fading glow

The dimming sparkle of those eyes

Nothing could be as harsh of the sight,

The pain couldn’t be beaten

The melting tenderness of heart

O! The cruelest if it’s kind

The darkness hovered over the Heaven

That is what predicted the raven

In a glance everything deceases.

Bloom

By Hira Nasir

Have you noticed lately

Or observed a little closely?

Do the flowers forget to bloom

Or the stars forget to shine?

Does the sun forget to rise

Or the moon forgets to beam?

Do the trees forget to grow

Or the river forgets to flow?

Then why

Have you forgotten,

Your roots,

Your inborn talent

Your innate qualities.

Why have you forgotten,

How to shine, or bloom, or

Go with the flow.

By Zainab Shakeel

The girl standing in front of the mirror

Marvelling at herself, full of errors

Smiling at her contorted reflection

Unusually, she seems frightfully proud

The voices in her head are echoing loud

I love you, listen even if you are full of woes

I accept you in your inane, darkest, gracefully twisted way

In your weak, weird, flawed way

I love you and you’re worth it

You are good, kind, full of life

Contagious with your stormy energy

Mustering up the courage

The girl hugged her reflection and said

So complicated

Look how we just made it

See this feeling is so liberating

Loving Raw and Real self, STOP FABRICATING ax

Compiled by SK

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