<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464979" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poem For A Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She asks me<br>What is a poem? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her shapely nose, <br>Her lips like two slices of water melon, <br>Her eyes reflecting clear blue sky, <br>Her thick hair like dark grey clouds, <br>Her horizon-like forehead<br>Are poems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Frolicking of children, <br>Gossiping old women, <br>Cheering buddies gathered to spend an evening together, <br>Waiting travellers with carry-on bags in hand, <br>Strolling couples in a park, picnickers, <br>Are all features of a poem.<br>Lively sunlight warming the sanitorium stairs, <br>A nude poster, <br>A gypsy girl, <br>Are poems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ramble through a wonderland, <br>Laughter at an amusement park, <br>Still blue lake, <br>Scream of herons slipping on the rocks, <br>Thunder of a water fall, <br>Symphony of four seasons, <br>Song of pure rains, <br>Silent hunch of rainbow, arching over all, <br>Are poems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Children of Bosnia<br>All are words of a poem.<br>Prior to gang rape<br>Women were preambles to poems, <br>Now they are complete poems.<br>Suppressed scream of a prisoner<br>In torture chamber <br>Is also a poem.<br>The blood ablaze <br>In the snow clad valley of Kashmir<br>Is fast becoming a poem.<br>Death of the starving in Somalia is a poem.<br>Coffin of the peace keeping soldier <br>Is a real-life poem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She asks me, what is a poem? <br>Shall I tell her <br>That her poem inscribing fingers are too a poem<br>And her handwriting, <br>Her handsome portrait, <br>Her brown sandal<br>Even destiny under her feet<br>Are a poem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She knows! <br>She is a poem to me clad in mauve.<br>Still she asks me<br>What is a poem? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(1992, Translated from Urdu by Samina Amjad, Translation reviewed by Lillian Thomas)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Naseer+Ahmed+Nasir">Naseer Ahmed Nasir</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464979" data-title="Poem For A Poem de Naseer Ahmed Nasir" data-description="She asks me What is a poem? Her shapely nose, Her lips like two slices of water melon, Her eyes reflecting clear blue sky, Her thick hair like dark grey clouds, Her horizon-like forehead Are poems. Frolicking of children, Gossiping old wom..."></div> </div> </div>

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