Showing posts with label Us magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Us magazine. Show all posts

A Mask without the Face

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 by B.H.
A humble glimpse –
Of my fickle imaginations –
Spilled on the canvas
In a jiff –
An atrocious darkness
In a trice –
A glinting flutter ––
Days and nights
Then the darkness stilled…
The monsoon roared
And wrathfully splattered –
The transparent dread
And gushed in the maples and ebonies
And the yellow pale moon –
Hid behind the shuddering dense hazes
The owl against the glow –
Flew by
A gaggle gaggled –
In the sky
As I asked meekly a mask of his health –
Without the face

By B.H.
                                                                          Us Magazine

'Tis thy day

Friday, August 6, 2010 by B.H.

By Bahadur Hussain
Published in Us, The News International.

For thee I shall pen a poem
With no Shakespearian words
Nor like any glistering quotation
Nor like the antique birthday song

But like a tittering toil by a cunning heart,
Of - they hath not heard
Long...I waited for thy day to sun
Before time flies with the wafting leaves-

I shall, inflame the candles with sun
Dress the ballooning flossy clouds
Write thy name on the glowing moon
Sprinkle the fairy dust, white the gloom

To enfold it in beguiling glossy sheets
I shall steal it from its earth
Shall I fill these airs with flowers,
Ah, 'tis thy birthday my love!

I am a bird hailing from thy window
With a gleeful poem written in secluded heart
With a glinting moon held in yellow beak
With a gleaming twinkle of love in adust eyes

O lady! Thou canst take the moon,
Only if - Thou dost take me thy lad,
For the sake of my sleepless nights
For the pains I took in toils...
http://thenews.com.pk/newsmag/mag/detail_article.asp?id=762&magId=9

For a very, very, very special friend *heart* (not girlfriend =p)

Dwelling of Past

Thursday, July 8, 2010 by B.H.
By Bahadur Hussain
(Published in Us, The News International)
July 09, 2010.

As if a pile of dirt - tramples my heart
As if a deep abyss - calls my name
And leaves me - a reason to fall apart
As if shackled in - sore cold chain
And I still live in - that dwelling of past
In those snows of love in the year - last
When thy departure seemed - ail in frost...


And it kills a part of me each time
Ailing from inside
Ailing from outside
But where will I go and hide?
If the dwelling is built in my mind...
But I have so many delights to see
Apart from this longing to be free
From the cold shackles
In such a life - not ample
And of eternal longing
Of happiness...
Yet another illusion



So I look at the sky
And shed silent tears
And wish a wish
The raindrops fall
To wash away my tears
To save me from all my fears
To take me away from all my cares...
http://thenews.com.pk/newsmag/mag/detail_article.asp?id=695&magId=9

Dreamland

Friday, May 21, 2010 by B.H.
Published in Us, The News International
21st May 2010

By Bahadur Hussain

Beams from beacon fall onto the meadows,
Colouring the paintings, tracing the shadows-

And the flickering flames of the tapering candles
With the storming wind, the lightning thunder;

A scarecrow runs in swaying golden fields
While raindrops perch on the glossy leaves

Parrots of the world sing heavenly songs
As the angels strum the magical guitars

And staring of suns and biting of apples
Some sparrows laughing in the maples

And calling of summit through the beacon
So I lead the flocks towards the heaven

http://thenews.com.pk/newsmag/mag/detail_article.asp?id=564&magId=9

Meaningless Words

Thursday, May 6, 2010 by B.H.

Bahadur Hussain

Words -my poetic woes
Zilch and nihilistic
I --- alone in such infinite world -- of words-
And books --- my mystique-
Beautifully written with blood,
Meek and mild,
Envied by materialization of dreams.
Words --- sail in ocean --- hail from heaven
Words --- night is dread --- stars are red--
Words --- no more clichés, no more antique-
In randomization.
Words --- come to me --- with sticking tongue
Evilly yet lovingly then frighten me.
Words --- needles and threads
Meaningless epics.
Words --- I do have not --- they do
Love --- for me --- for you,
My everything.
To you --- for me --- mere a word.
To her --- my woes are words
To me --- are humans with brains
Words --- fireflies of nights
Shadows of noons --- twinkling of stars
Aches of hearts --- sunsets and cries-
Hellos and goodbyes --- words...

Sonnet 01

Sunday, May 2, 2010 by B.H.
,
Bahadur Hussain
Us, The News International



Fragrance of blossoms flies in the air,
A lewd scent, enfolds the deep desire,
And forces me to inhale in despair.
My nose in pain from its alluring pyre
An addicting chemical, the content,
With each whiff brings death close,
A poison! Not doubtfully devil sent,
The portal to hell made in but one dose.
I realize how evil its purpose is,
And beg my soul for release of the smell.
But death slowly comes, and with a quick kiss,
Freezes the corpse in its enchanted spell.
I lay on the ground, dead carcass and bare,
Knowing I paid the price, the toll, the fare.

http://thenews.com.pk/newsmag/mag/detail_article.asp?id=515&magId=9

The death of my poem

Friday, April 16, 2010 by B.H.

By Bahadur Hussain

Published in Us, The News International

Pages are burnt - pens are broken

Passions are ailing - hearts are crying
Instead of myself I wonder
Why the roses are dying?

http://thenews.com.pk/newsmag/mag/detail_article.asp?id=481&magId=9

I Had to Leave...

Monday, April 5, 2010 by B.H.
,
My first ever published poem
I still remember this day.
(Published in Us , The News International) 25 Nov 2009



Run away
Fake faces,
Manual wrinkles,
Customary questions-
And praises,
I knew all!
Magical words
Like in magician's show,
He shows how?
Not to let people know,
I knew all!
Colourless loyalty,
Faded emotions,
When heart was dark,
Tongue shimmered,
I knew all!
Sun seemed good-
Even in eclipse,
Was original not,
Animation!
I knew all!
The sparrows of spring-
In iron cages,
After disappointment,
Wish for not!
Hope for not!
I knew all!
Since I saw
The night-bird
In dawn,
I came to know!
I told people,
They didn't believe,
So, I solely had to leave!

A Dream

by B.H.
(Published in Us Magazine, The News Int.) 02Oct 2009
(Second published poem)

A witch muttering over the cauldron,
Chanting some shivering incantation,
A fear then spread in my veins,
As she sprinkled the glitters upon the cauldron,
I closed my eyes in that moonless night,
Then something rustled in the cauldron,
It had become a glimmering girl,
Who ran and faded through the brightening air,
I ran behind with the storming wind,
I kept on wandering all the night
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone;
and touch her face and take her hands,
And walk through long dappled grass,
And pluck till our dooms shall come,
When all the moons and suns are done!

Archaic Attempts

Monday, March 15, 2010 by B.H.
>> Dead…
Thou pinched into the core of my heart,
Bereft of life, I am falling apart…
Over the parapets and into the sky-
Flew my agonies very high,
The air around, I inhale-
Ignite my sheets sans thee…
I cry in pain and implore,
Allay my pain! O unfaithful!
I burn in thy untrue deeds…
I yearn to cease the ache of my sheets…
I little care of death after thee…
I was fearful of only losing thee,
Slowly then I close my eyes…
No more me, but my corpse…



>> Winter Phobia
And so my foe, thou hast come
Being so bitter – thou dost weaken my sun
Thy keen winds oft blow to cage me in
Like unseen phantoms as fruit to Adam’s sin…
And shivering cold – for warmth, they hog
As life walks on misty lands, through dense fog,
But for thy golden sunshine I dost pray,
In thy bright suns, I seek Eden…
And I wail to cease thy tooth’s bite-
Wail and hide myself from thy dark suns…
And thy venom oozes, drench my roads,
I see black before my sight and pray to God…
I wait until the end of thee, and when thou go-
Grant me mere few months until another show…
Shakespeare would understand not my phobia,
For he would write it, "As man’s ingratitude"…