Naveed Akram Poems

Sleep is innocent, sleep has a spell on us,
It is wrong to be unconscious for too many hours;
The destruction of dreams is inspired by battle,
The battle of life has been gained by the unrolled eyes -
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Two innocent men walk into each other’s paths,
A crime made a spectacle of them both,
A cell of squalor occupied them after much hope,
And the end of life happened all-of-a-sudden.
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Hearts are a pleasure to behold,
The pumping of blood is enjoyed
By those with the life of this world,
A world so marked with peace.
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Heat arrives from somewhere,
Opening the eyes, making them stare;
For the flames have erupted,
Making the room feel despair.
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Forces keep working on the world,
The return to the ground is called gravity;
It is called gravity, because someone falls,
Falling and jumping are acts using gravity.
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You span a time for the lamp to drop,
It lands heavily for shame and harm;
This doing is for material hearts,
Light emanates from it as it rolls.
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The life of righteous and chaste women
Belongs to the sensitive arguments;
You bring in new points and units of prayer,
Laughing in the ways of men who keep.
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The academy of commandments thumps by ideas
Of a philosophical nature, then the field of words
Lies full with crops, thanking the crows for not bothering,
Minerals munched on believe they are present.
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My brother is on my flank,
He turns to me like a disciple;
I saw his soul with my soul,
And I understand him more everyday.
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Magic, so obvious to the magician’s eye,
Is like perhaps angels appearing,
And winds blowing from nowhere
To be kept by the magician in sealed bottles.
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