Anticipating… by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] my pen tiptoes and pirouettes** Like bony streaksof neglect on your lips childhood weaves memory of me lickingmy lips - a perforated curve of blood disappears ** Like time's strokes ofundulation on your mural face blood sprays...

Fireworks by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] 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...

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

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] 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...

Sadism-Infested by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] 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...

Eclipse by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] 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...