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The Land of The Pure

Raiya Hashmi   Nov 20, 2009   interacts: 0

No corner,no street,no abode Stands safe from these merciless fiends

If The Dead Could Talk

Mazhar Butt   Oct 5, 2009   interacts: 3

Can you hear the crackling of his bones?
Can you hear the sound of his bleak skull?
Can you hear

Afghan Widows

Mazhar Butt   Oct 5, 2009   interacts: 15

Amazed not be at the sex they sell
for their survival,
for more or less, where isn't it sold,
can

Uncomfortably Numb

MVJ Simon   Sep 28, 2009   interacts: 3

I see with my eyes wide open
Yet I don’t see your suffering
I hear your cry of agony
It’s

Rain

raghav chopra   Sep 5, 2009   interacts: 0

I Walked on water
Shards of broken glass rained from the sky
I walked through puddles of blood

The Innocent Image in a Mirror

MirAlam Said   Aug 30, 2009   interacts: 1

Where the looks turned to,
The happiness hid its face from;
And the blood and the soul,
With each tear

The Politics

kashkin dabruski   Jul 15, 2009   interacts: 1

Politics is beauty, the endangered specimen
Us, the proponents of change and progression
Inspect we must ourselves it’s still time

The Kaleidoscope Of My Dreams

Hina SajidKhan   Jun 6, 2009   interacts: 4

My present is what I have.
My thoughts are here to stay.
The rapture will come again.
You can’t take

Loser

mohsin ahmed   Aug 4, 2007   interacts: 5

I dream of those bizarre sketches,
on my unworthy soul,
hands proceed towards me snatching,

She Needs to be Saved

Hiba Tanvir   Jun 15, 2009   interacts: 33

And we'll all be guilty.
Guilty for doing nothing to find her, guilty for not challenging her abductors, guilty for

Obama's 100 Days of Presidency

Mutaal Mooquin   Apr 29, 2009   interacts: 13

Wipe off that smile please,
Your pleasant face does not excite me
Any more.

In My Veins, In My Blood

kashkin dabruski   Apr 23, 2009   interacts: 1

It’s our turn; we will not remain in fear
If challenge is to come, then embrace
We will, as

I Muster An Illusion

Amber Bokhari   Apr 12, 2009   interacts: 14

I muster an illusion
In vacant hours of day,
Where life is not a challenge,
Nor death the true

That emptiness, that nothingness, what lies beneath?

Thinking Storm   Apr 3, 2009   interacts: 8

as we sit in large glass window living rooms in gated communities and mimic what we see on TV

Standard Issue

Jyoti Iyer   Mar 30, 2009   interacts: 3

But then there are places in the city
I have never seen
Places I have heard of.
Places not too

The Healing Heart

FouzKhalid Khan   Mar 28, 2009   interacts: 2

I could not wait to let the show
Get started and enthrall us more.
But fate had marked me for

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