Khurram Nizami, Poetry 2019 Shortlist

Sandcastles Will Doom

Few little fingers busy at beach

With a bright vision proceed further.

And with a smile they pronounce

Sand castle is now there.

But sand castle never remains forever

As waves swallow it, but not the satisfaction.

As those innocents are brilliant

They know the future.

They run here and there,

Dancing smiling sharing

Their heart is not broken

As they know sand castles can never last.

And when they grow up

Understanding the labour of effort

And when some wave swallow

They curse, and sometimes get broken.

But some innocents attaining maturity

Try taming waves, protecting castle

Forgets, the fact

Waves will remain, sand castles will doom.

Poetry 2018 Longlist, Khurram Nizami

AT WHAT COST!

Let’s flock
Let’s invent
Some issues
Trivial issues.
Then add some flavour to it
Then add some flavour to it
Lots of anger, a crowd
And add heads, sans brain
Then bring a platter.
Then close your eyes
Numb the brain
Then be selective
Choose a chapter from a history book.
Then add some fuel
Because ignorance is a bliss.
Take real issue to burial ground
And extract a battle ground.
But doing so, please be cautious
Power is sometimes riotous
It can take you to a new height
But at what cost? It’s you to decide.

Poetry 2017 Featured Khurram Nizami

Time Is Mirror

The time will come
When time will be the history.
At that time, time will ponder
On the intent and implementing gesture.
The time will ask then,
Why was I wasted?
The time may lament  
Blissfully, the task could have been done.
The time moves on
As hands will stretch and will also embrace.
And the pendulum moves
Cause, it has to move.
And in between that movement
Efforts are made.
Ideas are floated, executed
Successfully, or unsuccessfully.
The time records all
Calmly and smoothly.
And take my words
Time is everyone’s mirror.