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Premium MemberChanging of the Guard

My wait over in my thirty-ninth year
  when an old covet brought a life’s new lease,
and on my first watch would elated stare
  upon nursling eyes shut in newborn peace.
Thirty-nine years before first gazed my own -
  my tiny hands clutched in my father’s palms
but that spirit was hidden and not shown
  and thus I shall spare you no such alarms.
In your helpless lay, in first sleep of babes
  the future becomes yours, and now I trust
I will feel its flame before my own fades
  and remember to wait if wait I must.
Behold, a changing of the guard I see
when I look at you looking back at me.


            Written: July 2004
Categories: nursling, baby, change, father son,
Form: Sonnet

The Fire

Carry it gingerly to the backyard,
it is a nursling yet ancient,
as stiff as chard gristle, as soft as lead,
as hard as a gallstone.
Open your hand.
see how it glows coal black.

This is your inner work,
this amorphous bone eating fire,
it smolders now in your hand.
Somewhere in the night
it grew stubby moth wings,
spans singed by the suns shadow.

Carry it now to the respiring air,
see how it breathes;
its elongated lung heaving
inside a flickering sac 
of nebulous conception.

Hold the hand 
with its seared burden palm upward,
whisper to the raptors of wind and sky,
let ravening talons tear it apart,
the hand also
let it be torn to the glistening cartilage
until there is nothing but ash.

When these metaphors fly away 
as the baleful caws of crows,
when wraithy harbingers 
cool into waymarks
a poem shorn of your gravity
will come to you.

Now growl or grin, grind even ash
                        into newborn light.
Categories: nursling, poetry,
Form: Free verse


The Judgement Day

The Judgement Day 
 
 The Shaking and quaking of earth, the splitting  and blasting of heavens 
 The undeniable promise of the Lord shall happens 
 
 Unmounting of the mountains and outbursting of the fountains 
 The signs no one will question again 
 
 Impregnating the Pregnant earth and women 
 Happening of the irrefutable Event in Sudden 
 
 Every breathing soul and living beings as a whole 
 Meeting their fate , no way of escape from the Parole(One that is Promised) 
 
 Fleeing from the Brother, nursling kid and women  
 The man, nursing mother and the husband 
 
 Deeds or misdeeds however small it may be 
 will not be left unrewarded, indeed 
 
 That day the order of the Lord will prevail 
 Thine decisions , no one dare to rival(challenge) 
 
 The inequalities and injustice, will be equalized all 
 The idols of the infidelity will have a down fall 
 
 Muhammad Imtiaz
Categories: nursling, allah, bible, death, judgement,
Form: Couplet

Love's Brew

Another turtle in the sun
Or nightingale perched on a tree;
Another day whose course has run
For living things, for you and me. 

Another nursling stirs anew,
Its dull fate longing to defy;
Another pair will drink love’s brew,
But now, for once, it’s you and I. 

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Categories: nursling, love, nature, time,
Form: Rhyme

Little One

baby
powdered, pampered
crying, smiling, crawling
bambino, bairn, nursling, nipper
playing, laughing, sleeping
cuddled, cherished
child
Categories: nursling, childhood, family, love, mother
Form: Diamante


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