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Selected poems by Shahid Abbas

Shahid Abbas



Beloved Rain


Today, you are pouring on my heart

I remain alone, but then you arrived and behaved like a soul part

I'm in love with you since the day

When you washed my sorrows and I had no words to say.

You are the beauty of the all beauties which rebirth the wonders

I never move to any trees under

Come what may, we love each other,

Thus no need to look for another

I can't hide my emotions as my eyes get wet,

When your drops pour on me as I sit

You are my beloved,

I remember the day when someone shoved

And I found myself among the heavenly drops

Wow, the love at first sight after the meeting I never stop

You and I are loyal friends

We adore each other and never offends

You are my everlasting crave

In your company, I wish to make a long drive

You are the cause of happiness for all creatures,

You nourish the beauty of all nature

Since the night I waited for you as I

gaze at the sky,

I talked about you to a pretty tiny sparrow, she smile and reply

Oh, Divine lover

I don't fly high

But I have been told a secret by one who never lies

Your beloved is coming through the heavenly door

So there is no need to wait for more.


Nature's Gift


Do not waste a valued drop

We owe existence to fertile ground

We soon depart this royal realm

Save some soil for their future


If we waste it

If we destroy it

If we disrespect it

Nature's gift will produce warfare


I implore you

Heed the alarm

Join hands in brotherhood

Save our home

From inexorable destruction and Irrevocable degradation


Human!

Show wisdom

Human!

Show compassion

Make every effort

To save earth's beauty

She gives of her bounty

To feed the hungry

To feed their crying souls


This precious gift from above

Whose river's flowing slakes the thirsty

Whose cool water soothes the aching body

So tired from toil at the end of the day


We are Mother Nature's protector

Let us not neglect one drop

Nor one acre

Water and land provides sustenance for all

Not just a chosen few.....



You


You

carry within you

a great gregarious soul


You

esteemed chronicler

of life lived in ever shortening shadows

exposing the banal truth of lies


Poetry

the unsubtle act of rebellion

in the midst of atrocities poetry stands against an uprising

on divine rights of man

Victims

tossed about hither and yon

remaining silent in war torn zones of

obliterated lands

litered with hearts of stone and ash


Poets

fearless writers of truth

gor human rights

for innocent children

for justice

for all creatures great and small


Passion runs high

words pour like rain

you righteous poets

refuse to abandon the goal

to hail the rallying cry of freedom no matter the cost


Sent by God to an incalcitrant world

your truth sustains

you are colour in colourless lives

Poets speak during the great silence



47°c


The sun is blazing

A cloudless sky on fire

Birds seeking water

Children too


Bare footed kids in the middle of the road

Desiring puddles

Finding only dust


The shoeless feet of innocents

Tell the sorry story of runaway inflation

Sunken eyes

Hands outstretched

As if in supplication


They smile

Explore beauty which exists in their hearts

They keep moving

As if angel messengers lost in woods


They spy nature's part

Flowering plants

Blooming trees

Swarming butterflies


My eyes see these leasts as nature's truest art......



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