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Saturday June 14, 2025

Poetry mourning missing friends

By Ibne Ahmad
May 16, 2025
A representational image of Urdu poetry. — Unsplash/File
A representational image of Urdu poetry. — Unsplash/File

‘Puraanay Dost’ is a collection of original poetry from Sabeeha Akhter with a prolific canon of work that varies in length, tone, and tenor. It is a composition mourning lost friends, using trees as a metaphor for grief and resilience. Nature imagery conveys sorrow, while verses create a mournful tone, ending in remembrance.

It reflects on nature’s self-sufficiency. Its tranquil tone, musical simplicity, and simple imagery highlight love’s ineffability. It portrays love as fleeting, elusive, using storm, and seasonal imagery to explore longing and destiny. Lyrical verse, shifting rhythms, and extended metaphors reinforce love’s mystery. The poet celebrates life’s beauty with joyful urgency. Repetition and fluid, rhythmic lines evoke freedom and gratitude, using nature as a metaphor for presence and connection, harnessing wonder in fleeting moments of life. A beautifully crafted poetry collection goes a long way in embracing a delicate balance of light, love, and renewal. Broken down by theme, her writing comes across as thoughtful, often lyrical, and always moving, pulling simple yet evocative imagery into deeply moving reflections.

The pieces that lean heavily into resilience and the measure of human connection impressed me the most. The poetry stands out with its lovely seasonal metaphors, illustrating the transition from sorrow to renewal through the promise of spring. The poem’s rhythmic flow and uplifting tone make it a powerful meditation on the persistence of joy. It radiates warmth and serenity, using soft morning imagery to convey the quiet beauty of love and gratitude.

Overall, the poet’s ability to distil emotion into elegant verse makes this anthology a heartfelt and inspiring read, perfect for those seeking comfort and consideration through poetry. It is a collection of heartwarming poems filled with raw and real experiences. Readers partake in the poet’s exploration of love, insecurity, dreams, heartbreak, and other evocative themes.

This collection of poetry is a gift to a lover. It contains expressions of assurance, affection, and closeness. It reveals vulnerable moments and thoughts about writing to get an ego boost. The poems reproduce spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, and winter. Each section contains poems that beautifully reflect various human emotions linked to the earth’s different seasons in these brilliant, metaphoric poems. The poems are enjoyable to read and ponder over.

Sabeeha Akhter’s words are simple yet packed with deep meaning and thought-provoking metaphors that both core poetry fans and casual readers will appreciate. Since the poems are grouped into seasons, I know what to expect from each section. The poems also shine a light on the diversity of emotions and the richness of life. From sad moments and heartbreak to joyful love and wholesome desires, the poems offer a breathtaking, evocative journey. Season compels you to feel deep emotions, reminisce about past love, and connect to the poet’s profound moments. I had a wonderful time with this collection.