Poetryzine Magazine presents the selected poems by the Pakistani poet 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.