Category Archives: Poetry
That even the wind has a color in Afghanistan
By Saba Maher To all Dispatchers Before I offer you my reaction to the midnight raid and slaughter of my brothers and sisters in Afghanistan by a reported all too drunk and “overstressed” soldier, I ask you What is good enough for a massacred people? THEY SAY, let us use pilgrimages to Hajj as a […]
Breaking free from oppression
By Hamna Mughal An empire funding oppressive regimes Taking out humanity making us machines Supplying us drugs , stamping us as fiends When they are the ones that intervened The truths too contagious to ever be screened That’s why we are told lies and the truths kept in between Mixing fluoride in water so there […]
Aftermath of war
By Hamna Mughal Then why are you breaking and entering in my house? Why is my life being taken, where did you take my spouse? Why are we brutally controlled by dictators? Why does my peaceful religion have so many haters? Why is my self-defense mistaken as a violent absurd action? Why is that when […]
African, Day and Night
By Abdiwali Ali In the company of the Earth, I stand on my feet Rooted in the deep dark Africa Sun rises beaming, powerful All corners, shining Beautifully twisted in the metaphors of the day In the company of the Sun, I glow like torch Lighted dark, illuminating ecstasy, Incubating souls, procreating future Brightening […]
My flag, my heart
By Abdiwali Ali Still blue, the indomitable Boycotted and Booed Bashed and buried But still blue Boughs broken but barren not yet Bruised bosoms but still bears some milk Ready to breastfeed its betrayers Still blue, the indomitable Its blue sea fed to the brim From broken bottles to barrels of uranium But still blue […]
