• Asad Aftab Iqbal
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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...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
March 24, 2024

Birth I am the reason, the cause and the song, I am the light and the dark, I am the moon and the star....

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
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March 24, 2024

What is right and what is wrong? I have seen the sword kill and save.  Inspire my hand so that I can achieve the...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
March 24, 2024

Come to my aid o’ prince of darkness, strengthen my arm be my guide, I intend to learn from a master, I grow weary...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
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March 17, 2024

Staring down from above an angel saw A woeful sight of a child raw   His hungry eyes distant did blaze He wore a...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
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February 4, 2024

O’ moving dust pursuest of the frozen sun Predator of prey till left is none   O’ laborer of night and day, your effort...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
February 4, 2024

Realize the gift of pain that is on you laid Behold the river of torment you have to wade   Why do I question...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
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February 4, 2024

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...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
February 4, 2024

The pain, the agony; the blackness I see Oh you baffled fool! The choices you made Was it really that hard to be? A...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
January 23, 2024

I am waiting for you to disclose A fate, a punishment to impose A faulty soul, an error to dispose A blessing now would...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
January 22, 2024

Poets laboring both day and night Bristling verses a moment’s delight   Lovers of illusion, courting dreams Content with hope filling reams   A...

  • Asad Aftab Iqbal
  • Posted by Asad Aftab Iqbal
January 22, 2024

Bending words at will, my gift A pain, a promise, a poet adrift Catching worlds that fall by this rift Trying to ‘be’ before...