[tabby title="Poem"] Sometimes our emotionsbehave like nomads,camping in unknownplaces for days,trying to understandlife. They fall with aheavy slump, reluctantto rise like a hippo,half-submerged,reclining in mudwith a slow, squelch. [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Zahra is a poet from Pakistan whose work appears...

[tabby title="Poem"] When the world is too much to bear,When the heart is filled with fear,When the sadness overcomes,My heart from heel to hair,I come to you, oh river.When I see your flow,Ebb and low,I find in you,A companion close,And...

[tabby title="Poem"] The sky wascloakedin gray.the cloudswere weeping.As I walked today,tears began tofall on me—and they mademe fertile.I saw golden leaveslying crushed,flattenedby footstepsthat never paused.Nature oftenheld me,gently even whenshe grieves,And I wondered—If God had told usThat fallen thingswere sacred,Would wehave...

[tabby title="Poem"] Invisible I amTo the world around me.I walk and talkAnd wail and sobMy tears drown me.I laugh and yell and shoutAt the devils of hellMy cries shroud me.Invisible yet I remain to the worldHere and there, there and...

[tabby title="Poem"] Miserable, pathetic,A heart so tragic.What would its destiny be?Who is it destined to be? Will it survive?Will it endure?Or will it give in,Accepting defeat? Will the flowers ever bloom,Basking in a warm tune?Or will this heart explode,Or simply...