Fireworks by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poem"] the new year isn't new to youfor it brings back the memories flashing like fireworksfor it wells up your eyes because you're a bereaved kinfor it comes shivering like windowpane in a thunderstormfor it knits the greeting with...

Searching for Myself in the Silhouettes of My Memories by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poem"] soma nestles in a comforting caress on the scalppneuma glides bursting into bars of floral tints –    the rose quartz whorl,           the oyster base,                  the leafy urn.like lower-case letters the figments of fancy sedimentonto the waterline of my...

Sadism-Infested by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poem"] tinker with a spark of lucifer insideslithering as a cigarette's smokea sadist heart lies drunk in rapturea denying soul bleeds mercilesslyenchanting touch of a demon feelslike an alchemist's gilding wandif red is love so is blood a dazingwilderness...

Eclipse by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poem"] the reverberance of my thoughts grows frommoribund ebon to sanguine tides in my veins toashen grey of meaninglessness of life toclamping teal blue of monachopsis & chaos toblinding white of nothingness & numbnesswords blur & quiver like the...

Pneuma by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poem"] malaise – disconcerted lizard's tail in lacerationfaceless white walls – a blank sheet of paper –sibilance, obscuring sounds, kenopsiacomposure – petrified heart thundering & wispingacrasia – a spray of blood that quenches the thirst –sonder, anechoic heart, madnesssolitude...