Naveed Akram Poems

She shrieks in broad daylight,
Opening her wounds, to the day.
My window seen in the wind is grand,
More than a plain sight of abundance.
...

It is better to wear a shirt to protect your happiness,
The wearing of an item of clothing like this one is immense.
We stagger and wait more than others, wearing shirts and trousers,
Still this happened a long time ago, once when the sea opened.
...

The nightmare to commence is like no manly figure,
Of greetings we speak and entice on the entrance to infinity.
The gates of treason shall shut on the non-sinners,
Theirs is sin of nothing on this faithful Earth.
...

Your ill humour defines me in entirety,
Exotic are exercises of the mind, so apt
To take away your concern of the world.
Then that to disperse is given like bombs
...

To abhor him sides with evil looking people,
Ablutions are made by the priests for their prayers.
To abhor them is to love them, in ways of good,
For therapy arises for the able, the good in ways.
...

Never in this place called Earth
Has a home been built,
Bodies of strong youth
Are in the nights of density.
...

To transport the medicine to extravagant lands
Means much to the relentless storms that brew
And quake with some dignity of the old times.
Horses enlighten one beyond the knowledge,
...

A late morose order was proclaimed
By the pelting men, who swung their hips
And sandwiched true genius with iron force.
...

Devastating forces travel inwards,
Opening the passage of tremors and feuds
Always forgiven and relentless.
...

In a dream, I saw myself with a beneficial knowledge,
The knowledge typifying the knowledge,
As if a candle had illuminated my heart and ileum;
Sombre praise had begun to respect me,
...