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Aspiration and Hope

  • 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
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...