When she comes back, from college, I will see the skin of her upper arms, cool, matte, glossy. She will hug me, my old soupy chest against her breasts, I will smell her hair! She will sleep in this apartment, her sleep like an untamed, good object, like a soul in a body. She came into my life the second great arrival, after him, fresh from the other world—which lay, from within him, within me. Those nights, I fed her to sleep, week after week, the moon rising, and setting,…
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They are Hostile Nations by Margaret Atwood
i In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres ii Put down the target of me you guard inside your binoculars, in turn I will surrender this aerial photograph (your vulnerable sections marked in red) I have found so useful…
Read MoreMasaoka Shiki translated by Khawar Ijaz
The Soft breeze And in the green of a thousand hills A single temple ہر سُو نرم ہَوا لا تعداد پہاڑوں میں اِک مندر تنہا A travelling show The banner is wet In the spring rain تم بھی دیکھو تو بارش میں بھیگا بینر چلتا پھرتا شو The peacock Spreading out his tail In the spring breeze پر پھیلائے مور سر سبزی کے موسم کو کر دے ہور دا ہور Going out of the house Ten paces And the vast autumn sea چند ہی قدموں پر گھر کے باہر پھیلا…
Read MoreSol Varm Sunnan by unknown
Sun from the south, Moon’s companion cast her right hand over the sky’s rim. Sun did not see who labored in her shade, a gardener who had no heights to scale. Sun did not know where she had a home, yet the gardener’s hands found certainty in soil. Stars did not know where they belonged, while the gardener’s boots left prints in softened ground. And as the gardener’s work broached heaven’s margin, Moon did not know what strength she held.
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اگر دعوتم رد کنی، ور قبول من و دست و دامانِ آلِ رسول
Read MoreSlvester’s Dying Bed by Langston Hughes
I woke up this mornin ’Bout half-past three All the womens in town Was gathered round me Sweet gals was a-moanin “Sylvester’s gonna die” And a hundred pretty mamas Bowed their heads to cry I woke up little later Bout half-past fo The doctor ‘n’ undertaker’s Both at ma do Black gals was a-beggin “You can’t leave us here” Brown-skins cryin’, “Daddy Honey! Baby! Don’t go, dear” But I felt ma time’s a-comin And I know’d I’s dyin’ fast I seed the River Jerden A-creepin’ muddy past But I’s still…
Read MorePYTHAGORAS by Bertrand Russell
PYTHAGORAS PYTHAGORAS , whose influence in ancient and modern times is my subject in this chapter , was intellectually one of the most important that ever lived , both when he was wise and when he was unwise . Mathematics , in the sense of demonstrative deductive argument , begins with him , and in him is intimately connected with a peculiar form of mysticism . The influence of mathematics on philosophy , partly owing to him , has , ever since his time , been both profound and unfortunate…
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دی شیخ با چراغ ہمی گشت گردِ شہر کز دیو و دد ملولم و انسانم آرزوست
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چہ وَصفَت کُنَد سعدیِ ناتمام علیکَ الصلوٰۃ اے نبیّ السلام
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خدایا بحقِ بنی فاطمہ کہ برِ قولِ ایماں کنی خاتمہ
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