Qudsia Zahid’s reflective poetry

This poetry collection is a tale of homesickness and longing. To her, there is no place like home. Qudsia Zahid is a struggling poet mired in her work attempts to deal with her various frustrations over homesickness.

Most of the poems have been more or less like polished gems. Her most famous poems pulse with an especially heavy charge of the emotional energy that infuses all of her work.

Her poetry captures the heartrending crisis of exile in small, violently sets up lines that hit the reader like fast-crashing waves. Its riveting rhythm and surprising slant rhymes are typical of her technique and serve a particular purpose.

It is as if the poet is trying, desperately, to bring formal order to emotional chaos, to convince herself that she is indeed beyond homesickness. Thanks to the power of her talent, the impression holds until the last poem.

These are poems, which for the most part do not have any flashy or grandiose flashes, in fact, a lot of them actively lean towards the mundane. In every one of them, there is a power that holds the poem upright and keeps you wanting to keep reading.

Lost in homesickness and nostalgia, she barely seems to pay attention to the foreign country she is in now. In fact, she dismisses the foreign land flowers because they are not so lovely compared to Pakistani flowers.

Under the spell of homesickness, she sees the foreign country’s exotic beauty as rather unrefined and unnecessary: the simple pleasures of the home have a pull that no showy foreign flora can match.

By writing several long poems of description on her dear homeland’s spring, she barely writes about her present surroundings. Her poetry suggests that homesickness can be overwhelmingly powerful. Her longing for home means that she barely sees the world around her.

Hers is an emotionally resonant and wonderful poetry collection. The nostalgic elements found in her poems are mainly concerned with revealing her homesickness and detailing her longing for her homeland and childhood memories. This is a collection of poems, which takes us on a journey through home, identity, womanhood, health, creativity, relationships, and much more.

She is a poet who is extremely interested in words and the ways they fit together. Word association shapes her thought process very often: one word suggests another, via either rhyme, accidental likeness, or ideas that connect them. Sometimes this affects single-word choice.

It is a fascinating collection of poems about the fundamental human need to belong to a place, as poems provide profound and moving insights into the emotional pull of the homeland.

Poems about homecoming, departure, and both voluntary and involuntary exile provoke reflections on alienation and identity, and a recurring theme is the yearning for a sense of belonging and acceptance by a place.