Firdous Bahar

In the market of desire: flesh attracts to flesh for The mad rendezvous. It's not a big deal. So, it's over. For we cannot Encase an infant...

Today and once again, I saw my Fanny in the hubbub Of Lal Chowk, beside the terminal of Pratap Park. I have been stroked again by...

Désolé, ignited by a catalyst. Is there anything more euphoric Than an antique Capstan, Loaded with a Desi-bhang? Chillum fermenting with an ancient Yeast of marijuana? O’ Lady, tell me,...

Señorita! I wish to hold your Hinnā' hands at a moment Under the pleasant shafts of Spring's sunshine, And to sing you the Ghazals of Rusul...

Once, I was playing with a sand, A spade in my hand, Yonder on the ghat of Jhelum. The silence of the Jhelum water, And the music of...

I'm dying in t'is fever of love, the love which I bear To thee like Majnun, O’ Laila! You weigh my affections none, so I went To...

… and I multiply my stuff: an uncanny shade, Underneath the tangle of cobwebs, emmet holes. Advance my steps; pioneer in the house of ghosts, None except...

Here I'm, inking metres, on the page of my sweetheart, Though warbling out on a flute of shrill phones. But hark today, hark now, the chronic...