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Still in Love

Shehlah Zahiruddin   Dec 11, 2004   interacts: 30

If you just hold me the way I want you to
I would spare you the cruelty
Of being in love with

Double-Click for Lit

Mariam Shoaib   Feb 6, 2007   interacts: 6

a bookworm-now-blogger’s view on the digitization of literature

Alphabets

Wasiq Bokhari   Nov 19, 1998   interacts: 9

Not all Waters cooled the same, not all Fires burnt the same

Goodbye, Traveller, Hunger

Temporal    Aug 21, 2003   interacts: 28

poem

Fall

Saima Shah   Sep 27, 2007   interacts: 7

Do I really have to?
Watch
The slow unwinding of leaves
As they fall ever so slowly from the

Length and Breadth

Rehan Ansari   Jul 4, 2000   interacts: 36

tum tu mujhe kahin ka na chooro gi

Sine Die

Feroz R Khan   Mar 5, 1999   interacts: 7

A Republican’s thoughts upon the acquital of Bill Clinton

i see red

manay na   Nov 2, 2003   interacts: 4

reverberates around, bouncing off walls, windows, boundaries: echoing inside a dungeon

’Complements’ Of The Season

Farzana Versey   Dec 31, 2003   interacts: 20

Will Mushy and Atal meet? So what does OBL do in a cave? What’s with the group ‘Junoon’?Whoever said you

Lingered

Afreen    Mar 16, 1998   interacts: 0

Of Love, Whose pathways are filled with strangeness.

Life (and Death) etc.

Rehan Rizvi   Apr 11, 1998   interacts: 5

Why is truth morally right when it’s so rare?

Aging Gracefully

Mohammed Amjed   Dec 16, 2004   interacts: 4

The cold, steely chain of suffering
Circles the night decked with sorrows

Little Beggar Beauty

Lakshmi Mukundan   Aug 4, 2006   interacts: 1

I am like many in my city
Not callous enough to be unmoved
But too timid to do what I could and

Thorn Tree Gossip

Lokhi Menon   Nov 1, 2007   interacts: 4

They fall on the new gossip-meat
Like a ravening hyena pack,
tearing their “close” friend
To rotten pieces behind

Help! Is Anyone Out There?

Sabah Aafreen   Feb 24, 2000   interacts: 22

No toiletNo water

Thanksgiving III

Temporal    Nov 24, 2004   interacts: 75

too many queries
orphaned by thoughts
too many thoughts
not in word prison


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