© 2001-2025 Asad Aftab Iqbal. All rights reserved
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...
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...
They dream no more! Of change, of greatness They heed no more! Wails and cries They feel no more! The shifting tide They hear...
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...
There was a time when water was like nectar and the sky was the bluest blue. The storms in the desert looked as if...
Birth I am the reason, the cause and the song, I am the light and the dark, I am the moon and the star....
What is right and what is wrong? I have seen the sword kill and save. Inspire my hand so that I can achieve the...
Come to my aid o’ prince of darkness, strengthen my arm be my guide, I intend to learn from a master, I grow weary...
Staring down from above an angel saw A woeful sight of a child raw His hungry eyes distant did blaze He wore a...
O’ moving dust pursuest of the frozen sun Predator of prey till left is none O’ laborer of night and day, your effort...
Realize the gift of pain that is on you laid Behold the river of torment you have to wade Why do I question...
A crossing of the mind commences when we sleep To the seducing precincts of the dream master’s keep Where man can, through the window...
The pain, the agony; the blackness I see Oh you baffled fool! The choices you made Was it really that hard to be? A...
I am waiting for you to disclose A fate, a punishment to impose A faulty soul, an error to dispose A blessing now would...
Poets laboring both day and night Bristling verses a moment’s delight Lovers of illusion, courting dreams Content with hope filling reams A...
Bending words at will, my gift A pain, a promise, a poet adrift Catching worlds that fall by this rift Trying to ‘be’ before...