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A Little After Three

Lajwanti Khemlani   May 9, 2008   interacts: 5

I lay face down, pretending to have fallen asleep. Soon I heard random words like boy, Muslim, Sindhi, dowry, next

Nipa Chowrangi

Shandana Minhas   May 8, 2008   interacts: 66

The neighbors couldn’t hear her screaming over the sound of the building’s generator, so that particular Sunday Aslam was able

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

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: 2

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: 7

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??!!

Me, not you

kashkin dabruski   Jan 21, 2008   interacts: 0

Thousand times I have stared
At existence of you and mine
Of what we are and have become

Sounds from Within

Amber Bokhari   Jan 13, 2008   interacts: 8

Walking in the woods today
I talked loud and low,
To the ever listening trees
I said my silent

A Life Created

raghav chopra   Jan 11, 2008   interacts: 2

Responsibility for a miracle,
another life, another hope
another start, a new beginning
a fresh Phoenix has risen.

I thirst

Sahir Shah   Jan 4, 2008   interacts: 7

I will shed this wretched skin
shred it, peel it, skin myself

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