Lampless
...Fussy and mean
The anger of a
Immature person
Leaps and bounds
Mind you in descion
Anchored by ones lack
Of devotion
It is perfect because it
Is his
Wanted because it was
Seen as unobtainab...
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Categories:
lampless, business, emotions, giving, jealousy,
Form: Couplet
War Veterans
...Their spirit beat the void, like the bird from out the ark.
Their soul was as a lampless sea.
Their thoughts came yapping and growling round them like a pack of curs.
They breathe to Heaven like v...
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Categories:
lampless, beauty, bereavement, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Night Fears
...NIGHT FEARS
When distant daylight’s been spent and spilled,
My lamp alone lights the curtained darkness
Of unseen fear, which has always filled
The weary black pit yawning endless
Into t...
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Categories:
lampless, fear, fear,
Form: Sonnet
Stage Fright
...STAGE FRIGHT
On this far-stretching stage of fools, my role, my cue
To trudge tired but glad to arrive - and stumble upon you.
In this forest thick, the trees-set spreading
Arms b...
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Categories:
lampless, allegoryme,
Form: Couplet
The Mystery of the Moonlight
...As lovers walk hand in hand, with each step their world becomes smaller under the moonlight
Cocooned in their embrace, lips on lips trace, as passion takes hold, under the moonlight
At midnight...
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Categories:
lampless, imagination, life, urdu,
Form: Ghazal