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Unpoet

Temporal    Apr 14, 2005   interacts: 27

float and fall like flakes
one after another
in a suffocating embrace
to the ground
unloved and undead



The Gray Cotton Shawl

Hamidah Hemani   Nov 21, 2002   interacts: 22

Kashmira is the bastard child of Pakeezah and Indir.

The New Beginning

Mohammad Gill   Nov 1, 2004   interacts: 37

My story is the story of many thousands of other people on both sides of the line. I regard myself lucky in one way that

He Dared to Call His Own

Sadia Khatri   Jul 19, 2007   interacts: 4

He screamed and he screamed, until he was certain his lungs were forced empty of fury intermingling with paining love. And still, nobody listened.

Nothing’s Forever

Kasim Master   Mar 18, 2001   interacts: 22

An ’epic’ poem on life, love, relationships etc.

To Have Loved and Lost

Ibrahim M Khalil   Feb 1, 2007   interacts: 14

I learnt to distinguish between sincere and leering eyes of men, jealous and envious looks of women, how to notice small changes in women’s body,

Outside Looking In

Amanullah Kariapper   May 16, 2004   interacts: 4

She asks about the way – robbers, road conditions, ETA. The drivers and local staff inform her that there have been robberies on the way

Calligraphy of Coils

Rehan Ansari and Rajinder S Pal    May 11, 1998   interacts: 1

A conversation with Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali

Marital Rape

Aurangzeb Haneef   Jan 8, 2001   interacts: 432

A man can’t rape his wife

Premala ka Pyar

Madeha Chaudry   Jan 12, 2005   interacts: 13

She waited with patient resoluteness for the rising sun as he slept with his fingers entwined deeply in her hair…

My Beautiful Rizwan

Samina Rizwan   Apr 5, 2003   interacts: 79

Such was the overpowering presence in my life, of Rizwan - my husband, my friend, my soulmate, my shaheed.

I, Samurai

Sahir Shah   Apr 23, 2008   interacts: 7

my finger twitch
my neck hair rise
my throbbing pulse
my blistered foot
I'm full of life

He and She

Gomathy Subramanian   Jul 22, 2007   interacts: 8

She ran after him and they looked like two small kids playing in the water.

On The Other Hand

Tahnoon Pasha   Feb 4, 1998   interacts: 27

I have spent five of my twenty-nine years in Pakistan ... They were the best years of my life.

The Road To Misuraata

Prashant Bhatt   Aug 7, 2008   interacts: 2

The Italian Cemetery at Gargarish has stories of the families who lived here and made Tripoli their home. This is

The Palate’s Passionplay

Farzana Versey   Apr 16, 2004   interacts: 47

A low moan is the sound of satiation, after breaking bread as well as in bed. Both food and sex make full use of our

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