Done playing ‘this and that’ whilst listening to jokers by my side....
POEMS FOREVER
By e.e. cummings
as freedom is a breakfastfood
or truth can live with right and wrong
or molehills are from mountains made
-long enough and just so long
will being pay the rent of seem
and genius please the talentgang
and water most encourage flame
as hatracks into peachtrees grow
or hopes dance best on bald men’s hair
and every finger is a toe
and any courage is a fear
-long enough and just so long
will the impure think all things pure
and hornets wail by children stung
or as the seeing are the blind
and robins never welcome spring
nor flatfolk prove their world is round
nor dingsters die at break of dong
and common’s rare and millstones float
-long enough and just so long
tomorrow will not be too late
worms are the words but joy’s the voice
down shall go which and up come who
breasts will be breasts and thighs will be thighs
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
-time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough
By Nazish Sabir
Life spent as if a roller coaster ride.
Done playing ‘this and that’ whilst listening to jokers by my side.
Tables turned, egos burnt.
And so the pretentious natures.
Wandering around the canvas of needs and dreams,
Met beings,
Got along with a few,
However, learnt a million lessons to inspire.
By Zahra Zafar
Do you ever lay awake?
Rain splattering on your window
Heart moving where the wind blows
Questioning your existence
Thinking about resistance
Or ruined dreams you have chased
Decisions you could have made
Bridges you have burned
Lessons you never learned
Do you ever lay awake?
Thinking about children begging on the streets
Those kids with tainted childhood and bruised feet
About people who went but were never willing
People who died but are still living
Obsessive-compulsive thinking
Life rattled, shattered, sinking
Flustered mind, haunted emotions
Soul-stirring with incessant commotion
Do you ever lie awake?
By MaH Noor
Wandering around
In the midst of forest
Vast plains and lakes
And on the other side, mountains
I run crazy
Till I’m out of breath
I look at the sky
Feeling like a child
Wishing everywhere
At the beach
Ocean waves and wind gusts
People on the other side
I want to live
All the memories I could have
I want to be a child
But this time a happy child
Compiled by SK
