Muhammad Shanazar Poems

The Boundless Ocean of Brilliance
That lends the stars dazzling light
Whom obey flakes of the watery clouds,
Riding on the back of moving wind.
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The Sacred Message from the Source,
Impinging upon the minds,
Sensitive, clear and delicate,
Transmitted into the lucid lines,
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How often a thought of unfair deeds,
Terribly haunt my vain guilty mind,
Shaking inner self, core of conscience,
The wanton pleasures of indelible past,
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O! Heedless Generals of the parading troops,
Overloaded with the warring martial contents,
I shall keep crying aloud, at the top of my voice,
Though my tongue is plucked out of the roots.
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Let us remove together
The dividing lines of race and colours,
And wherever is the fire of odium,
Let us extinguish it together,
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I have cherished a desire for long,
I have cherished a desire for long,
To gift you the gift, the precious one,
More precious than rubies and sapphires
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O! Farzana: the daughter of Eve,
You were alone to be stoned,
The stoners were twenty five,
They held in their hands the pieces of bricks,
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I without you am incomplete
Just like a half said couplet
A half writ poem
A lonely cloud
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(A Poem For Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto)

The Wind is shut
Behind the windows,
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I wish I could write a word,
Out of multitude of thousands,
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