Naveed Akram Poems

A thousand suns rise in the dawn,
One of them is ours to stay all the morning;
Let moons be damned yesterday,
The stars of the night come out to play.
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Spicy slippery slopes inhabit my ebony arms,
And my legs live with the inhabitants in armies
Of the immediate surroundings,
Carefully they survey and forecast with the forts
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The adding and subtracting combined to make
My numbers work like words and positions
Offering powerful premises congealing in mud,
Fitting to the eye that stares,
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Revered hills are dedicated to the slings,
They wrapped the mud and big clods
And tossed their heads at the invulnerable to this day,
Feet hoaxed their stare, toes smashed and glared
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The moves spend their time on their kings,
And the queens reside in the galaxies,
For the decembers win fully like teachers,
And the januaries fix their stare on the tongue.
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The moons are satellites for the unknown,
Speaking is the ritual caressing the joints
So much in love with joints,
And I say this with jests of the bodies in the heavens.
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A foul growl upsets erringly,
The feelings of shadows are afloat,
Then foul happenings cause us to cease,
Feet are the only key of the woods.
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The destruction desires a monument to totally destroy,
This item of worth or token of strength desires you,
Feeding the energy to simpletons,
Who fenced with the soldiers with swords.
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The sweet burden is immense,
For frowning clarity erupts from here,
So that this telling is stated with tongues
Of humankind, fruitful with fists blindly following.
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One fights another man with gestures of the light
From heavenly doors.
They swing to the night and the fight
Is on with parallel forces.
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