My name is Asad and I'll be sharing my

Poems,
Prose &
Ideas.

This is a personal website. I share these thoughts as a service to myself and my children. I am content with an audience of One but welcome travellers who might find in me a kindred soul.

A brief
introduction

I used to write and I enjoyed seeing my thoughts take form. I lost it though, that urge to write. Other things compelled me elsewhere.

As I turn 40, I wish to balance my passions and start writing again. 

Hopefully this act of putting my past work online will inspire me to be… more of me, perhaps even more than me!

NEW BOOK: The Art of AI Whispering

 

All the
latest

I publish periodically. Poems from my past, essays inspired by current events & unfinished thoughts that slip through.

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
May 28, 2025

Last week, an early reader sent me feedback that stopped me cold. They'd meticulously analyzed my manuscript, pointing out where my predictions about AI...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
May 26, 2025

There's a shift happening. Can you feel it? Every morning, I wake up to a world that moves a little faster than the day...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
April 1, 2024

They dream no more! Of change, of greatness They heed no more! Wails and cries They feel no more! The shifting tide They hear...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
April 1, 2024

The un-spoken words, the language of love, flying fancies, dreams of a new life, childish desires that might just survive a river of hate...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
April 1, 2024

There was a time when water was like nectar and the sky was the bluest blue. The storms in the desert looked as if...