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Articles with tag: dream

Dreams of Dania

Faisal Shahid   Oct 28, 2007   interacts: 4

Kamran lives in the old part of Lahore, near Lahori Gate. Living there, he says, makes him feel in sync with the heartbeats of the City.

Fall

Saima Shah   Sep 27, 2007   interacts: 6

Do I really have to?
Watch
The slow unwinding of leaves
As they fall ever so slowly from the branches
that nurtured them

Dormant Embryo

Anum Ali   Jun 13, 2007   interacts: 9

There’s a world within me, a culture of cherished dreams
Lurking gloomy shadows, unheard unanswered screams

From Agra To Niagara

Muslim Rizvi   Dec 21, 2006   interacts: 19

The 'police wallah' is asking me the details, so I go through the whole story and he asks if they had any guns and I tell him that yes all three of them had guns. He asks again “Asli theen?”

Gone is Caravan...

Beej K Singh   Oct 19, 2006   interacts: 107

Gone is caravan - seek my eyes in vain
All I see is dust - dust full cloudy train

Love Among The Ruins

sheema durrani   Aug 16, 2005   interacts: 21

I was too busy
Picking up the broken toys
Of children yet to be born

Vandalism

sadaf bandeali   Jul 28, 2005   interacts: 16

'How do people walk on stars?' The question caught me off guard. Smiling my most enigmatic smile, I said, 'Bare feet.'

Trunk

shobig sifar   Jul 15, 2005   interacts: 15

He took a deep breath; a sigh of relief perhaps, for this was the long lost glory that he had craved for all these years. Looking around himself, he felt hard to take in all the expanse of the empire he was about to find!

Sharded Past

Harish Nambiar   Dec 21, 2004   interacts: 10

When guests go
And I return to me
I’ll cure the hangover

Remix Mania

devahuti choudhury   Dec 19, 2004   interacts: 4

I wish the whole world were on a C.D

Two Poems

Aamir Ansari   Sep 16, 2004   interacts: 23

I walk around the house, restoring solitude
From room to room, only to find your smile
Wrapped around my hand, opening doors.

Burning Dreams

Foad S Shah   Aug 29, 2004   interacts: 3

This poem is based on the misery of young children starving in Somalia, a country already destroyed by years of civil war and anarchy.

The 786 Cybercafé on Tariq Road (continued)

Bina Shah   Jul 28, 2004   interacts: 19

Karachi in the 1990s was a wasteland of failed opportunities; the salaried class was on its knees under the burden of heavy government taxes, and the only people who could afford to set up franchises and industries were the already super-rich, super-corru

Dreams

Umair Naeem   Apr 18, 2004   interacts: 9

What are dreams? How can you explain the unlimited diversities with which the human mind dreams?

Times to Come...

sameena khan   Jan 4, 2004   interacts: 16

The non-conformists who retained their attraction for the opposite sex were subjected to derogatory and condescending looks; their families disowned them; the public ostracized them; they were the social outcasts; they went hiding behind closed doors and

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