All Around Poem by Prof Niamat Ali Murtazai

All Around



All around I find great grace
But without human face.
What has happened to man
Where has gone Adam's rece?

Houses don't like neighbours
As masters hate beggars;
Streets don't like children
Glances fall like daggers.

Leaves, wings have been banished
Ancient links now finished;
Winds and clouds need not come
Or they will be punished.

Charming stars charm no more
Moon light enters no door;
East is west, west is east
Now are lost directions four.

Roads are dead without sigh
Vehicles make cry on cry;
Ah! from earth's dead body
Man's hopeless soul did fly.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
A thought that come to me when I look at the condition of man.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Tirupathi Chandrupatla 26 June 2013

It's now a mechanical world only machines and computers seem to matter. Nice poem.

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Yasmin Khan 26 June 2013

Your poem embraces so many ideas; ethical, religious and spiritual deterioration in the society. Truth described in a masterly way. have you read Eliot's The Hollow men'?

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