Kazi Shahid Shawkat Until her first child died into the second week of its birth, Beethi was in a trance with some half hearted struggle to accept the inevitable and a false concentration on trying to become an ideal housewife. Eighteen years is not an immature age for a girl to be married off. So w[...]
Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category
June 1st, 2010 - 12:00 am § in Lead Poems
And if, my friend, you ask me the way
Hakim Sanai And if, my friend, you ask me the way, I’ll tell you plainly, it is this: to turn your face toward the world of life, and turn your back on rank and reputation; and, spurning outward prosperity, to bend your back double in his service; to part company with those who deal in words, [...]
June 1st, 2010 - 12:00 am § in Lead Poems
The Answer
Rudyard Kipling A Rose, in tatters on the garden path, Cried out to God and murmured ‘gainst His Wrath, Because a sudden wind at twilight’s hush Had snapped her stem alone of all the bush. [...]
May 1st, 2010 - 12:00 am § in Lead Poems
In Blackwater Woods
Mary Oliver Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars [...]
May 1st, 2010 - 12:00 am § in Lead Poems
A single word can brighten the face
Yunus Emre A single word can brighten the face of one who knows the value of words. Ripened in silence, a single word acquires a great energy for work. [...]
April 1st, 2010 - 12:00 am § in Science Fiction
Not With A Bang
John Walker The ravine baked in the sun of a cloudless June afternoon. The pickup and the three people it had brought provided the only evidence this was a world dominated by humans and not less dangerous creatures such as the rattlesnakes and scorpions that so outnumbered them in these parts. [...]
April 1st, 2010 - 12:00 am § in Lead Poems
A New World
Hafiz (1320-1389) Let’s offer flowers, pour a cup of libation, split open the skies and start anew on creation. If the forces of grief invade our lovers’ veins, cupbearer and I will wash away this temptation. [...]