POEM - GANEEY TOYYIB

Inscribed on the wall
Are flowers with dropping nectar
But I see the wall incomplete
Cos of the twisted rope

To the front
To the right
Is the rope twisted
Till a twisted hill is formed

Such is the twisting
The traveler of earth
Experiences

POEM - KNOTS - SAFIYYA

KNOTS.
When once the rope was tangled
Like my heart
Into a twisted, knotted mass
When once the stars in the night sky
Lost their twinkling ambience
When once the moon was shadowed,
I knew not how to cry.

I yearned to cut the loops
And be free like the bird
I longed to leave it whole, and not lose those fragments
I longed for slim expert fingers
To loosen them up.
I longed for the starry nights, and a full, open heart on a long untangled night.

POOR ORPHAN - MARYAM SALMAN

*POOR ORPHAN*
Like the lone piece of rope,
He started his sojourn.
Bit by bit,
He ascended.
Sometimes falling, other times tripping
Never relenting, he kept trying.
Little by little;
He was gaining grounds.
And like the proverbial saying "The going gets tougher"
Almost crushing.
But been determined, he never gave up
Till he reached the Peak of Success.