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POETS’ CORNER

By US Desk
11 October, 2024

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee....

POETS’ CORNER

Poems forever

No man is an island

By John Donne

No man is an island,

Entire of itself;

Every man is a piece of the

continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away

by the sea,

Europe is the less,

As well as if a promontory were:

As well as if a manor of thy friend's

Or of thine own were.

Any man's death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.

Mask

By Majda Ulfat

Apparently I am ready to face any trial

determined to walk

thousand a mile

with my big bright smile

believing that every struggle is worthwhile

But the lips which say

the line

I am alright, I am fine

the eyes that so brightly shine

they are not mine

Because there's a mask I wear

hiding all my despair

concealing every

nightmare

pretending as if walking on air

Beneath this adorned mask

real me helplessly asks

the providence of

impossible tasks

why there's no glory to bask

Through the mask no one can see

the real me, the melancholic me

the one left with no glee

the real me, the crying me

I yearn for a day when

all pains depart

when happiness finds

this foolish heart

then this mask will fall apart

ending its never-ending art…

A girl like supernova

By Ahmad Quddusi

I know a girl, who is different

In a way, that is consistent

When she talks, the cosmos stalks

When she smiles, the time stops

In her eyes, the eternity resides

When she cries, a distant star dies

Beautiful like aurora, deep like a black hole

I feel like a light, ignored by her gravity

I live in a constellation of different stars

I am small, pale, near death, simply a dwarf

But I know a girl

A girl

A girl like supernova