Poems from Pakistan

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  1. A Change of Season

    Title text of the poem A Change of Season

    by Noshi Gillani

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  2. Autumn Leaves

    Title text of the poem Autumn Leaves

    by Shakir Shujaabadi

  3. Can Someone Bring Me My Entire Being?

    Title text of the poem Can Someone Bring Me My Entire Being?

    by Noshi Gillani

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  4. Ghazal

    Ham ki maGaluub-e-gumaa.N the pahale

    by Kishwar Naheed

  5. Hope Against Hope

    Title text of the poem Hope Against Hope

    by Shakir Shujaabadi

  6. How Hard It Is to Manage Life

    Title text of the poem How Hard It Is to Manage Life

    by Noshi Gillani

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  7. I Say Nothing Anywhere

    Title text of the poem I Say Nothing Anywhere

    by Noshi Gillani

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  8. Insight

    Title text of the poem Insight

    by Noshi Gillani

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  9. Kafi

    Kafi

    by Rifat Abbas

  10. Kept On Compromising on Life

    Title text of the poem Kept On Compromising on Life

    by Noshi Gillani

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  11. Last Conversation with the Sky

    Title text of the poem Last Conversation with the Sky

    by Noshi Gillani

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  12. Please Bring a Token Home from Each Journey

    Title text of the poem Please Bring a Token Home from Each Journey

    by Noshi Gillani

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  13. Shakir, How Strange

    Title text of the poem Shakir, How Strange

    by Shakir Shujaabadi

  14. The Breeze Rewrites

    Title text of the poem The Breeze Rewrites

    by Noshi Gillani

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  15. The Flower is Torn at the Heart

    Title text of the poem The Flower is Torn at the Heart

    by Noshi Gillani

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  16. The Wind, Too, Can Change Direction

    Title text of the poem The Wind, Too, Can Change Direction

    by Noshi Gillani

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  17. There Was a Heart that Burnt Out: Light

    Title text of the poem There Was a Heart that Burnt Out: Light

    by Noshi Gillani

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  18. There Was a Time When I Loved Alone

    Title text of the poem There Was a Time When I Loved Alone

    by Noshi Gillani

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  19. This Prisoner Breathes

    Title text of the poem This Prisoner Breathes

    by Noshi Gillani

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  20. To Catch Butterflies

    Title text of the poem To Catch Butterflies

    by Noshi Gillani

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