Poetry

When You Were There With Me By Fiza Pathan When you were there with me, the breeze forgot to breathe itself over the evergreen trees When you were there with me, for the briefest moment, I could count all the blood red drops that entered my aching heart When you were there with me, I was speechless in a crowd of babble only silence could comprehend When you were … [Read more...] about #Poetry ‘When You Were There With Me’ by Fiza Pathan

Last Moments Of Love By Fiza Pathan Last moments pass away like a slide in the springtime garden, Your acidic words of hate have upset the sparrows in their nests. My heart has been broken in three parts-one for me, one for cupid and the last fleshy bit for you Last moments glide like an aimless cloud in the sky so blue, You left me without an explanation you severed … [Read more...] about #Poetry ‘Last Moments Of Love’ by Fiza Pathan

Redden My Parched Lips By Fiza Pathan Why did you sing your sigh for another aeon? Why does your voice chant into my nerves like a flute? Yet why is my sky so dark and black, after you have said-you’re not coming back. Now every sound I hear scratches my eardrums in pain, Your words of hate are louder than the barking dog’s curse. Why do you have to leave my world … [Read more...] about #Poetry ‘Redden My Parched Lips’ by Fiza Pathan

You’ve Broken My Heart By Fiza Pathan So the light has passed out its flame at last, This night is over you will never come again; Let the ghost-like finger smoke turn my sky from black to blue You’ve broken my heart and yet you have no clue. I spin yarns to my spindle of relatives, They cut my thread-like lies with golden scissors of truth True they are-sure they … [Read more...] about #Poetry ‘You’ve Broken My Heart’ by Fiza Pathan

The Riddle of the Insane Owl By Fiza Pathan O look, who have come to visit this owl in her cage - three dandies and one little chick of the yellow feather. See how they spin a yarn upon my leaning eardrum, fancy-fancy just look at the large screech-owl’s toothless grin. Fancy-fancy look at me, my lovers hate me while my enemies bless me, Goblins and ghouls wish me luck … [Read more...] about #Poetry ‘The Riddle of the Insane Owl’ by Fiza Pathan