Muhammad Shanazar Poems

Now the spheres are sooty sable,
Man has adulterated Nature with His murky works,
Black rains pour down from the heavy clouds,
And rain-drops fall down not to wash
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(Written during the power crisis and on the moment when electronic media broke the news that a daughter of the nation has been rapped by the law imposing sentinels at the tomb of the Quaid-i- Azam: The founder of Pakistan)
We weep in pauses, we sleep in pieces,
Our dreams break, we wake to the nightmares;
We scratch, rag our bodies, our nails are blooded,
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It was night,
The whole nation was in freight,
For starvation prevailed over
Each nook and corner.
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Peace is though difficult
Yet not impossible to uphold,
All the kings of the states
Must remain self-concerned,
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A sojourn on the far distant strange land,
Took me to a plain of the scorched sand,
Replete with the countless vertical holes,
Each was guarded by a figure with a wand.
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O! God, what will become of the world,
Its each nook and corner smokes,
With the stench of burnt blood,
And reek of the decomposing flesh.
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(On the event when five women buried alive)

What kind of hearts
We contain in the chests!
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I once in a dream flew into the world of future,
On the wings of fear, with the heart of agony,
And landed into a burnt zone,
Remotely resembled the world of man,
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(On The Departure of December,2008)

December departs from us,
But is unwilling to depart,
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(An Acrostic Tribute In Respect Of Saman Roy)

Sweet honeyed words slip
Adding to the enthralling charm of her
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