Naveed Akram Poems

The word silently worked like fire,
The laws of joking quality do speak.
The word of some joy is again in speech,
Nonsense matters, no sense is about.
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Do not die when I am sick,
Inside is demand for the deprived and slender.
This thin man who throws light and heat
Is astray like the cows and bulls.
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Who is worth more than yourself?
The death of mighty warriors is on our shelf.
They are books so golden like the crown,
Knights strive with vigour, then they are down.
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A task awaits us in the morning,
Pulling my leg and arm for five years.
The days and nights pass for the same task,
Yet these years, we experience a more important ghost.
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Earth changes according to times,
Its canopy beckons on these surroundings.
Air is like water and all gas,
Filling my stomach and lungs with living matter.
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O to construct experiments and cry,
Just to lie in front of the king.
Rain has fallen from high in the sky,
Water so acidic the scientists want to bellow
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Still is this dawn of a diverse view,
Pass it once your chores are done.
Forget my hymn of success as it is,
A thrown flower may remind you of me.
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I became a land of astonishment when I was young,
Mocked at, jeered at, my lingering breath bent my back.
Survival lacked enemies, bit by snakes I scaled my better life,
My names heard for longer than the animals, I was fugitive.
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