THE PLUME

If  only  you had Waited a little Longer after dark   Watched the gloom Dissipate, heard the Singing of the lark   The sun flowered as It rose, time shot A golden spark   Hope smiled a wide Horizon, busy bees Sipped on flowers - AR

MANY-A-TIMES   Many-a-times I have wept without a tear Many-a-times I have laughed out in pain Many-a-times I've smiled with numb eyes Many-a-times my silence screams in vain Much like the clouds that hover upon a barren land And burst not when earth is dry and drained But on incitements of a breeze from cool vales Sprinkle down a few drops of embarrassing rain - AR

INTERACT Let eyes do The talking, While lips Interact; Let fingers Linger While arms Intersect; Let meanings of feelings Two hearts Learn to grasp Let severed Souls meet, In full-bodied Clasp! -AR

  UPTURNED I went up the staircase, Lay flat on the rooftop and Saw some blinking stars Till I fell into the well of an Upturned Infinity and Dived in deep and far Felt the pull of galaxies Constellations conspiring Till the farthest pulsars I gazed at time and space The kaleidoscope of fate Until the morning hours -AR

Rain falls, And the dry Hard veneer Of reality Comes off a tad Heavens pour And the paint On the canvass Of creation Gets wet again A soggy façade, A damp front, And the smug Certitude of Established fact Sticks out like A sore thumb - Adil Rasheed  

FLAMINGOS Days fly like Flamingos Into the Sunset of Memories     Bygone years Scream like Children Playing in Far-off fields   A crescent on A crimson sky Sets sail for Unknown Infinity - AR