Poems forever
Love alters not
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.”Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”
Sonnet 116, Shakespeare
No
By Amna Ameer
The heaviest word,
I’ve ever heard,
Is of two syllables,
It has plunged me to the ground,
Laid me flat,
Silenced my voice,
Forbidden my thoughts,
Thrived on my insecurities,
Fed on my fears,
It has banished me,
From my home,
Made strangers out of,
People I knew,
It has made,
Barriers surrounding me,
It walks with me like a shadow,
Cloaks me from the world,
It hinders me every time,
I try to trespass,
My own home,
It has reduced,
All of my being,
Down to nothing,
It has negated,
My beliefs,
Turned the skies,
Into black,
The light dims,
A sound creaks,
Every voice I’ve heard,
In the future,
Is the same,
They point at me,
And say the same word,
The answer to my life,
The shackles to my mind,
And that word is,
‘No’.
Doomsday
By Bismah Riaz
Ever seen the evening sky?
With red, yellow and orange dye?
Those colours ain’t by nature made
Nor are they some beauty’s shade
If you watch with inner sight,
You’ll surely get what’s inside
It’s mist of blood you see above,
Rising from nations, empty of love
Peace is nowhere to be found
War at earth, air and ground
Shots, guns, bullets and fires
Ruling the world are killers and liars
Hope drowned in flood of dismay,
Now what’s left, is Doomsday.
Rebel
By Nazish Sabir
It made her strong,
pushed her forward;
but she got lost
in all that limelight,
she forgot herself.
Just because
she felt the word
boldness
conquered all.
Thief beware...
By Mehwish Abbasi
Enter stranger, but take heed,
Of what awaits the sin of greed.
For those who take but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath the doors,
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned: beware,
Of finding more than just treasure there.
Fading world
By Aniqa Zainab
I dream of a world
where reality is altered
into dreams of joy
and visions of love and hope
I dream of a world
where no soul cries
Evil and hate
Unknown to all
I dream of a world
where a child grows
without fears and doubts
I dream of a world
where adults love endlessly
They wear no anomie
Like a source divine
But every time
I come across
A polluted sea
an invaded land
or a cloaked sky
My head falls silent
A silence so deafening
It is louder than noise
And my heart
It bleeds darkness
Clouds my senses
That neither my ears listen to loving whispers
Nor my tongue savours the sweets
Nor my body dances to the tune
And my eyes
They only picture gloom
Fading dream and reality alike
Compiled by SK
