Dear Fellow Warrior, I wanted to share a poem with you. I think the poet suppressed within me is gradually returning. Perhaps I deprived that part of me through my graduate studies. It had been silenced and it is trying so hard to emerge when I keep telling it to wait, wait, wait, until I…
Poetry
This space will consist of my original poems from my earlier years and potentially recent additions….as well as those from my favorite poets!
The Radical Brown “Damsel in Distress”
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dear Fellow Warrior, Following the previous poem I posted a few weeks earlier, “I wrote a poem on 2020,”in this post I share that specific poem that I wrote in my…
I wrote a poem on 2020…
Dear Fellow Warrior, I wrote this poem about a poem that I wrote about 2020. 🙂 There might be a moment where I share that poem as well. But here is the poem I wrote about it. 🙂 Here is a quote to inspire you in your courageous act of writing… It is the quote…
A Love Letter to My Poverty…
Connected to my last post… a love letter to my poverty: To my dearest Poverty, O my darling Poverty… Do not let me rise above you. Without your recollection, without your scars… as the alarm bells inside the soul and mind. Stay with me, my dear “traumas of difficult times.” Teach me. And never stop.…
Reminiscing Pakistan’s Allama Iqbal during Amreeka’s National Poetry Month
{Featured Photo from Pakistan National Monument Museum, Islamabad, December 25, 2018.} “Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.” – Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal It is another moment in Pakistan’s history, a moment which some may perceive to be a “window of opportunity,” and others, a…
Happy National Poetry Month!
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes As many of you may know, April is National Poetry Month! This is the first year I learned of this. Doesn’t it seem like we are always learning about a “new day” or a “new month”…
“The Self-declared ‘Prisoner of Conscience’” – A Covid-19 Pandemic Story
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” -Maya Angelou. We had a powerful storytelling session tonight at the American Pakistan Foundation, Leadership Council monthly meeting. I am a member of this wonderful community and I was able to participate in the gathering virtually. Thank you to Dr. Uzma Iqbal and…
I will not cry…
I will cry, and that’s okay. I understand this is not your way… To hand me a tissue, when you see me on the train…. When a tear slides down my cheek, As my forehead hugs the window pane. But if I cry, I can promise you … My spirit will not die. It…