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Demon

Sahir Shah   Oct 5, 2008   interacts: 6

They slither, mock, and laugh at me
these demons, I can't walk away
I feel the curse well up in

Bihar & Louisiana: A Poem

Mutaal Mooquin   Sep 3, 2008   interacts: 5

You are not God,
Not even half God.
Nor Poseidon or Neptune.
Why this bloody ruin?

The Peacock Moments

kashkin dabruski   Jul 3, 2008   interacts: 8

Hope cannot be lost or forgotten
Carry they will these droplets of rain
Change will arrive, peace will reside
The

The Old Bungalow

MVJ Simon   May 21, 2008   interacts: 12

Etched in my memory
Looming the house stood
Once it was my home
Now it’s on my mind

Myanmar Disaster

kashkin dabruski   May 8, 2008   interacts: 3

“Dedicated to the people of Burma in their hour of need………but stands there, the government and its obstacles “!!!

Still Looking!

Tahera Sajid   May 3, 2008   interacts: 24

“No, no, no!” I had stormed out yesterday leaving my Mum baffled and Shabbi Auntie angry, when she brought in

I, Samurai

Sahir Shah   Apr 22, 2008   interacts: 7

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

Snowflake

MVJ Simon   Mar 17, 2008   interacts: 5

Sparkling in the sunshine
Pristine, white and pure
I am a snowflake there
High up above them all

Mosquito Music

Lokhi Menon   Mar 18, 2008   interacts: 4

That’s one form of music
That makes me quite sick,
whose notes are malaria,
dengue or filaria.

Inside you

kashkin dabruski   Feb 18, 2008   interacts: 3

As colour drift apart from painter’s brush
Says the picture, I am inside you
As the ocean turns itself upside

Untitled

Feroz R Khan   Feb 9, 2008   interacts: 4

Forlorn we must die as we once lived
And no one shall speak of us in death
As we were

Targeted Taxi Drivers

Lokhi Menon   Feb 5, 2008   interacts: 8

Day passes and night creeps up over the city,
Suddenly the TV chatters “taxi drivers targeted in Mumbai”

My Brother, My Killer

kashkin dabruski   Jan 20, 2008   interacts: 0

See you not me, as of your own
See you not me, as of your kind
See you not me,

Remembering You

Amber Bokhari   Jan 16, 2008   interacts: 15

Gleaming, glistening tears lay frozen,
on shy and curling lashes,
I've reached a vivid tombstone
of friendship, love

Bean Bag

Hadi Rafi   Jan 20, 2008   interacts: 5

In the days gone,
when the hide was soft.
The brilliant leather gleamed,
and invited tender touch.

Remembering Old Clifton Top

Mateen Mahmood Mohajir   Jan 21, 2008   interacts: 4

Qasim Bagh, anybody? With all the sounds of gunfire and deafening crescendo of siren wails??!!

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