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Manzar Hussain Akhtar: „In the mirror of dreams” and other poems

Poetryzine Magazine presents the selected poems by the Pakistani poet Manzar Hussain Akhtar

Manzar Hussain Akhtar


In the mirror of dreams


I beheld the visage of seconda

Nestling her head on wish rest,

Seemed as if sensation of sunshine had textured her contours

Her nature was manifested by emotional traits

Her drive on time ride was a natural continuum

Indifferent with sun and rain

She decored herself in the mirror of dreams

Years in and years out

She dressed new garb

Her soft parlance served to sequence events to quantify

The duration of events over centuries

She was distinguished to celebrate a command performance


I beheld the visage of seconda




Annals of time


When time learnt to move

Moment was its first step.

By and by shaped in centuries

Sprawl to eternity, the untiring moments

Reach the destiny,

The exhausted souls




Sun kissed the wall


Dreams imbued in the forbidden lands of an eye

Summoned an uprising.

Life under unknown skies

Ornamented cascades of a new mode

Sun kissed the wall

and fixed the pulsations




Dialog with a scholar


Your streamy contentions,

Your contrariety a water course

Knows no reality--- that

It configures both shams and strife

In the holy heart pursuit.....or

Shifting grounds

Moving through paths and pastures

These wrangling waves strike head on

So time and words fall

Perceptions fade out.




Mother


The Lord of the Kaaba has placed a glowing heart in the mother's chest

Hands filled with the divine light in the clay

Kneaded in the water of faith

From the cleft, the figure has descended

The one who swiftly consents

She posses attributes

Like raising, nurturing, giving birth, and is magnanimous

Which is the part of the Creator and Master

From eternal dawn to perpetual dusk

An anxious flowing river

Sunshine, Forests, Clouds, Shades

Villages, Suburbs, Deserts, Plains

In the shades of her accent

In the scent of her dialogue

In the clutches of journey

All are her prayers

All knowledge and skills

All nonage

Every single moment

Are the alms of her love

A ring of light in the darkness

All the light of a bright dream

Is behind the reality

My everything

Is under her feet




*Manzar Hussain Akhtar is one of the leading exponents of Poetry. His achievements are towering cutting edges on the poetic spectrum.

His poetry serves the social function as an unacknowledged legislature of the world. His entire work is characterized by excellence in terms of subject, craft and profoundness. His Urdu poetry book “Satre-Nou” has won paramount acclaim by breaking new ground and held in high esteem by the great critics of our time, like Gulzar from India, Dr. Khursheed Rizvi, Aftab Iqbal Shamim and Ahmed Aqeel Rubi who have considered his poetry as a landmark addition to the great tradition of Urdu literature.

Mr. Manzar is a dexterous trendsetter in Punjabi poetry. His book Wailay da Parchawan banners new standards of Punjabi poetry.

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