Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange.”
Poems forever
Famous epitaphs
Emily Dickinson: "Called back."
Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange.”
Edgar Allen Poe: “Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
Robert Frost: “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”
Sylvia Plath: “Even amidst fierce flames, the golden lotus can be planted.”
William Butler Yeats: “Cast a cold Eye/ On Life, on Death./Horseman, pass by!”
Oscar Wilde: “And alien tears will fill for him, /Pity’s long-broken urn, / For his mourners will be outcast men, / And outcasts always mourn.”
To sin
By Amna Ameer
My tiredness,
Exhaustion of pulses,
Spasmodic breaths,
Misplaced feelings,
Empty emotions,
Hollow thoughts,
Reckoned dreams,
Haunted premonitions,
Premeditated depression,
Lost battles,
Of self,
Have long been attributed,
To people,
But I realize,
The moroseness I carry,
And the darkness that shadows,
The silence that prevails,
And the brokenness,
That cringes my soul,
Is mine and mine alone,
I crave to heal,
On my own,
But my intensions,
Are misplaced,
I can't answer,
The question,
That reverberates,
In the ocean of life,
It rises like waves,
It asks me if I belong,
Even in this sadness,
But the scent of numbness,
Fills every loophole,
It impersonates my return,
Every time I wake up,
In the morning,
And carry my shadow,
In the daylight,
Hiding away my tears,
With no one to give sense,
To my insomniac dreams,
And rationalistic paranoia,
My entrancing psychosis,
Now looks for a face,
That never came in my life,
A saviour for an excuse,
To keep me from jumping,
Of the edge,
Of forsaken chances,
And granted sins.
Masquerade
By Maryum Tayyab
Amid the storm
Amid the abyss
Amid death and fear
Amid every failure
Amid the emptiness
Little did you know how I wished to die
Little did you know how I wished to escape
In your ignorance, I learned the aptitude for masquerade
In my pretence, I mastered the art of survival
They say time heals everything
However, with every next tick of the clock
My insides smouldered
As I clenched my teeth
To hide that massive uproar
The eyes burst out in rebellion
As the nature never shielded the eyes
from the safe haven of pretence
However my spectacles still fought for me!
Grabbing every bit of strength, I could
Burying my voice deep down,
I controlled the clatter of my teeth.
“What?” you ask,
“Merciless weather!”
I replied; spectacles still helping me!
Relativity
By Sahal Yawar
They say
Everything is relative
Nothing is absolute
It makes me happy
It gives me pleasure
For oft in leisure
I think of the world
I built for you
I think that the castle
May be tumbled for thee
And the hut you built
May be mansion for me
You may take my truth
For lie and fraud
I may take the scorn
For love, my lord!
And my heart's despair
May be actually hope
And our love story
May just be an affair
So you and I
May think of each other
In our own ways
On our own ways
And yeah at last
Thanks to Einstein!
For complex relativity. . .
Indifference
By Sobia Tahir
When I yearned for you,
You became unavailable
When I ignored your negatives,
You became obstinate
And when I became YOU,
You became what I desired
It’s too late now,
You turned me to stone
