Short Kashmir Poems

On coal flaming fume
Two roves men busy frying
A Kashmir chicken....

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I rise in love like slender crescent
         Dazzling sky with angels descent
        In kashmir on the lake wular
        with you in so serene  weather...

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I once knew a poet named Probir 
In quest of poems came to Kashmir
Fell in love with a girl
In Dal lake a slight swirl
While in love squall all poetry skirr...

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Both sides want Land
Both sides want Kashmir
Both sides want Milk
Both sides want Kheer
No one wants Ranjha
Both sides want heer.
What could be more devastating than a piece of land.ARK...

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K-een
A-uthor
S-cribes
H-appy
M-essage
I-n
R-apturous

L-ines
A-s
G-reetings
A-re
S-imply
A-pplied

Topic: Birthday of Bro. Kashmir M. Lagasa (December 13) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Kashmiri Hindu Pandits never killed a single person??
Those who killed/raped them were never got punished??
Their voice was never raised and supported by anybody??
They were killed by the terrorists because of their religious identity??...

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Google my name
To find my aim 
Google my name 
To find the game
Google the dreams of an oppressed nation
Google the resistance of a fallen fashion 
Google the voice of  occupied passion 
Google the graves found in park
Google why Kashmir is dying in dark...

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Raising the slogans won't make it any better. 
Dare to accept the truth, 
All lives matter. 
Does that sound better, 
Islam is the way out, 
Quran is the light out. 
Read it I promise you will later have no doubt, 
As  from it I have learned 
All lives matter....

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To whom shall I write my letters 
To whom shall I read my poems 
To whom shall I speak my thoughts 
The mountains mere the graves 
The valleys all in violence 
The streets all in silence
The words all in waters 
The dreams all in blood 
The graves all in flood 
#Kashmir...

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Here and there I saw the fear 
People running & saying it clear 
Corona here, corona there
Some ran for needs
Some ran for greeds
Some were worried about all their deeds 
It took me back in a reverse gear 
It took me back to Kashmir my dear 
Quarantine here, Quarantine there...

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Within Armpits of
Snow-flakes-dipped
Quivering trees,
Cuddled with
Pale puffy leaves 
Perspiring fogs,
Nevertheless
Siblings
In transition of
Crisis times,
Oddly red
Plump apples 
Hide within
Wombs of snow,
Hungry red robins
Performing
Midwifery...

22 January 2022...

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Jasmine at my window

Joy of luscious perfume

Jhelum waves are crazy

Joyous airy whisper

Jovial time we share

Jamaica Rum in breeze

Jingle will bells all night
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05/03/2017::Note: Jhelum is a famous river in Kashmir...

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The seasons all same from Kashmir to Dalarna 
The dreams all same from Kashmir to Dalarna 
The beings  all same from Kashmir to Dalarna 
The systems all lame from Kashmir to Dalarna 
The love all same from Kashmir to Dalarna
The worries all same from Kashmir to Dalarna 
The longings all same from Kashmir to Dalarna...

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The oppression echoes all around the valleys 
The injustice walks out all around the alleys 
Being born and brought up in Kashmir
I have seen a lot happening in Kashmir
The unidentified graves and those naives
The burning windows and all half-widows
The curfews, crackdowns and all threats  
The mountains mourning on innocent deaths...

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In the midst of the mountainous boundary
The speck of thy bright shining moon
Thy firmly  watching mapple tree
Touching gently wise but wild breeze 
Those thousand wish flowers at a glance
Thy rays of the moon's gleaming shadow 
She saw such beauty in eternal peace
She took steps wrapped in the clouds 
In the dwelling midnight; ah her thoughts...

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wishes for a soft landing

I bought a Pashmina in a
a tight little shop in Lhasa; 
the scarf was soft as feathers.

It was woven in Kashmir
by skilled artisans
with peaceful faces.

I walked to a stupa 
near the path into the hills
tied it among the prayer flags.

Thinking here in this place
so close to god perhaps my 
words would be more easily heard....

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Who says the world is free. 
Come I will show you the bodies hanging on the maple tree. 
Who says the world is free. 
Come i will show you the bodies hanging on the apple tree. 
Who says the world is free. 
Come I will show you how they go around on a killing spree. 
Who says the world is free. 
Come i will show you the blood flowing like a sea. 
Who says the world is free.
The freedom here has got a fee.
#Kashmir...

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Our blood they say, but a rotten puss
And to our tears they say, water of Absurity
To our demands, they say, bullets and bamboos
Our heroes are lying in graves, it is Kashmir.

We walk with shadows
We talk with meadows
We are deprived of limbs
We are deciphered, Ah! ignored.


They drank from our throats
They kill without reason
We suffer like an innocent on gallows
Ready to be executed
For none of his faults
But to enjoy the Atrocities....

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Kashmir a heaven on earth
So said those nerds
Gardens full of land mines
Where the fire flower blooms
Crystal clear waters
Full of human debris
Kashmir a heaven on earth
Said one and all
The frozen Dal lake
A view to behold
Full with wood chunks
And leaking petrol
Kashmir a heaven on earth
Said the teachers in school
The clear air
With stench of rotting food
Empty open spaces
Full of decorative tourists
Oh yes definitely a heaven on earth...

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Incomming of tears, 
Returning of fears 
Killing of men:The alarming bell
So called paradise changed into hell
On the faces of all
I saw the marks of fall
On the all sunny days 
I saw the dooming ways 
On the all rainy days
I saw the blood fell 
So called paradise changed into hell
On the eve of Eid 
No but, No sell
So called paradise changed into hell
No celebration, No festival 
FAIZAN hope everything will be well
So called paradise changed into hell...

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That night was the end of Jim’s career
warned he carried a vicious left hook,
an able-bodied man from Kashmir
read Jim’s weakness like an info book.

Yet Jim took him to the second round
and was leading by a single point,
but when over confident he found
let him through his guard and rocked the joint.

Jim didn’t hear the Referee’s count
when victim to a rapid combo,
just stars as city lights from the mount
as he groped for his mouth shield; Rainbow.

© Harry J Horsman  2018...

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