Naveed Akram Poems

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191.
Death Is A Foe

Death is a foe to the wise,
You wait for it and agonize;
It spent its energy in a week,
And we died all along with cheek.
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192.
Guarding

Guard us from pain loathing itself,
This pain contrives more suffering;
An animal connives due to this,
Opening the heart of love and banning us.
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193.
Our Thatched House

Our thatched house perched where the sea meets,
Our love mends as the sea melts and scalds the heated skin.
Dew gathers clarity, then it thaws, like the sea of tranquillity,
Cliffs are our sanctuary, melting the rocks into the sea.
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194.
Blind Horses

A blind horse stood among the trees of fortune,
And hearts leapt for the hearts to live among the apes;
When we strolled according to ways known to man,
The animals of water that once could take no liquid
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195.
Flowers In The Wind

Fortunate flowers ferment in favourable ways,
They grow utterly beyond control, ways are unlimited;
The stalks dance in the wind for they are soft
And the breezes turn shy of them,
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196.
Return To The Forest

197.
Rules Of The Game

The rules are broken when games are played,
Rules mean absence of the rules, as they are afraid.

I have aid for the players when I expect them to try,
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198.
To Seek Food

Hunger is to seek food,
Food has one eye and one ear.
The food we abstain from are the heads,
The food is caring over us, and we maintain
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199.
Religion's Devils

The devils of religion face the music
That reads itself like a spinal chord.
The really clever demons prevent the ions
From escaping the flesh.
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200.
One Desert For One Deserter

One fine day I understood him as a book
To be opened by the pages or the pages;
If from far off lands a word bespoke
I was to swear my allegiance to a god of stone.
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