Poems forever
By Paul Hamilton Hayne
The rain, the desolate rain!
Ceaseless, and solemn, and chill!
How it drips on the misty pane,
How it drenches the darkened sill!
O scene of sorrow and dearth!
I would that the wind awaking
To a fierce and gusty birth,
Might vary this dull refrain
Of the rain, the desolate rain:
For the heart of heaven
seems breaking
In tears o’er the fallen earth,
And again, again, again,
We list to the sombre strain,
The faint, cold monotone—
Whose soul is a mystic moan—
Of the rain, the mournful rain,
The soft, despairing rain!
By Ayesha Malik
In the wake of my nightmare
I surpass a threshold unaware
The random paths abruptly converge
All the horrors, pains submerge
I stand disembodied in the lurch
A prick keeps shining in the birch
A close look reveals not a thorn
A nest saved from the storm
The sparrows twitter away the gloom
Rejuvenating after the doom
How frail is the human soul
It cannot rejoice in the whole
Dwells on the pain too ardently
osing moments spent happily
I turn away from the birch
To find my own perch
My abode in a terrestrial world
Elated and serene, out of the herd.
By Tahreem Asghar
All the day’s hours I spend
Crawled in a corner in my head
My knees press against my chest
Lying like this, the day passes like the rest
No door does this place has
No window to see the crippling dusk
My breaths go shallow and the air numb
I scream but back at me my voice comes
All the day’s hours I spend
Crawled in a corner in my head
The floor is flooded with yesterday’s tears
My eyes can no longer see, my ears can no longer hear
By Tahreem Asghar
I walk in the street
And darkness is all there is
I feel a being is lost
But the mist is all that there is
I reach my hand out
But no hand touches me
A being is lost in the fog
Now darkness is all there is
I hear someone sob
Through the fog that there is
I call out loud
But no being calls out to me
A being is crying amid the fog
Now darkness is all there is
There stands a mirror in the dark
But I can’t see me
I reach my hand out
But no hand touches me
I’m lost in the fog
Now darkness is all there is
Compiled by SK