Thinking of Home

#2 Posted by aaisha on January 5, 2004 7:48:18 am

:sigh: that is what expats are left to...poignant prose and poetry.

#3 Posted by asaweri on January 5, 2004 7:48:18 am

``dreams i had hung out in the courtyard to dry `` simply beautiful

#4 Posted by chusni on January 5, 2004 7:48:18 am

Poignant!
vah vah.

#5 Posted by rozaiba on January 5, 2004 7:48:19 am

nice.

#6 Posted by samankhan on January 5, 2004 7:48:19 am

Beautiful and touching...
Really liked:
`Dreams I had hung out in the courtyard to dry.
I’ve been waiting for someone
to send me a handful of sunshine
wrapped in an envelope.

And my mother, I know
is too old to make it to the post-office.`

Even though Internet makes communication fast and easy at the go of a button, letters have a charm of their own.

#7 Posted by temporal on January 5, 2004 8:28:42 am

adnan:

welcome to chowk!

simple and elegant musing...do contribute more

rgds

t

#8 Posted by baaghiraja on January 5, 2004 8:43:04 am

Hello, Adnan. Nice to see you here. :)

_ Nadeem F. Paracha

#9 Posted by ahmed-iftikhar on January 5, 2004 1:11:27 pm

good one :)

#10 Posted by i-am-the-cheese on January 5, 2004 1:11:27 pm

lovely

#11 Posted by PunjabiZulu on January 5, 2004 4:08:24 pm

Good Stuff Adnan.

#12 Posted by cipram on January 5, 2004 11:43:01 pm

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#13 Posted by shehlah on January 6, 2004 12:59:22 am

Nice! Curious to know if you write in Urdu? Some of the imagery seems to have formed in Urdu and transposed into English...

#14 Posted by Adnan5974 on January 7, 2004 8:52:09 am

I thank you all for appreciating the poem. Shehla: No, I do not write in Urdu but I`ve been influenced by Urdu poetry and I think the sensibiliy of Ghazal gets reflected in my work. Although I think poetic imagery is always universal and has little to do with a particular language, you are right in that I think in Urdu even as I write in English. Thanks for your perceptive observation.

#15 Posted by Tazeen on January 18, 2004 9:08:45 pm

hi Adnan,

just conveyed my feelings, although I could never have expressed them so beautifully.