Sign Language Poetry: A Haiku Poem Hands flow into place,As they form words of their own,They speak as my own. Sarah Shahzad, September 2023 UN has proclaimed 23 September as the International Day of Sign Languages. This Haiku poem is...
Despicable Us – A Poem About War and the Silence of the World
This poem speaks to the weight of watching – the ache of witnessing suffering from a distance, unable to do more than bear...
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In Frame for Tonight – A Poem About Social Anxiety
Some of the most crowded rooms are the loneliest places on earth. This original poem captures the raw, physical experience of...
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Wild Rabbit Poem – A Free Verse Poem About a Rabbit Emerging After...
Wild rabbits are masters of patience. They wait — tucked deep in their underground burrows called warrens — until the world above...
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Rhinoceros Poem: Support Conservation Strong bulky mammals,Trample around the dried grass plains,The moment they felt safe, They were shot in no time, Resilient armored creatures,A few spotted in their parched homeland,Next to the...
Bamboo Sprouting out upwards towards the tainted sky, The grassy forest once lasted acres away, Sunlight settles onto it with ease, As it is no longer covered in leaves, Gnawing on both ends, It continues to stay essential, Perks up the morning...
Red Panda Hanging around the branches of the Asian trees, The red-ringed tail swings around at ease, They twitter tweet from their mouths, The low quiet noises till south, High trees over them you can see, These bamboo-eating critters are at...
Teachers’ Pathway During these lessons, they open my mind, We venture on these expeditions, Together as one, They navigate the way, examining carefully, Draw out the whitened blank map, And design the plan using a tool called...
Charity Bestowed with prosperity, Since the emergence, In front of their shoes, Lies heaps of gravy wealth, They pluck each one out, And chuck them below, They cascade around until the end, A masquerade with the goodwill manifested; such good...
Indus River Dolphin With blind hope, they scurried around, Through the rushing rough waters, they frowned, The galloping stream gave no good, As it led to the misunderstood, With leaps they frayed, caught in dismay, Shrieked by...
Wild Horses These wild grazers in the North, Roam freely with the wind passing up and forth, They march towards, through our eyes we cannot see, Lowered steppes and flowering grasslands they’re free, Their manes breeze in...
A Warm Dream The sound that serves between them, Skies that circle all over them, Water dripping from the wells above, The movement so calm and discreet, The wind that flows through the mind, And cleans the heart of the divined...
The shape of Dreams A dream can fulfill a wish, In reality, it seems to be a glitch, I wonder if reality and dreams can be switched, But the idea of the ideal world needs to be ditched, Can we exchange realms, where dreams unfurl? Yet...