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A Burden
(Storia Breve)
5-08-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Welcome to our camp Mr. Happy! I see you are here to make a report about us. Perhaps you work for some news-agency and are here not because you feel sorry for us but because you can feel that it is a 'juicy' story. Am I right?
Well, if you...
A Page of A Diary
(Storia Breve)
11-05-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
The universe is mysterious and the mind, even more. The enigma of creation is yet to be explained and probably never will be. Today I realised the power of creation—the significance of the insignificant. Things exist, but why? How? When? The...
Black Paradise
(Poesia)
23-05-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Once I saw through the black hole
It was like Alice to Wonderland
There were many beautiful gardens
Like made by a magic wand
There were many large fields
Not of soil, but of sand
There were many stunning statues
Like made by a skilful...
Defeat and Victory
(Poesia)
28-03-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
All is not lost, O son of sea!
A little defeat doesn't harm a victory.
Defeat is a part of life, you know.
A component of the enigma, the mystery.
Beyond understanding of humanity,
Combined with dimensions of versatility,
Strange are the...
Loneliness
(Poesia)
25-11-2005
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Ever wonder
What it means to be alone
To be insulated
From the worldly tone
To be amid a lively crowd
And to feel that engulfing desert-silence
To speak with your mouth
While your heart waits for emergence
The soul remains thirsty
Of a...
Misty Smile
(Poesia)
12-12-2003
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Oh, misty smile;
Can I ever understand thee!
A smile you are, an enigma as well.
Cruel you are, filled with mercy as well.
Devilish you are, angelic as well.
Crafty you are, sincere as well.
Dangerous you...
Role of Media and Video Games
(Opinioni)
30-05-2005
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
As sociologists are doing more and more research, a correlation between violence and media is being firmly established. Television and movies have emerged as a very powerful form of entertainment but are they just providing us relief or are they...
Salmacis: The Union
(Poesia)
28-08-2005
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Her kiss lingers on His lips
The moisture of love, heart sips
The burning passion flares
More and more it dares
The rose-like touch engraved
On His senses
The euphoria magnified
Through a thousand lenses
Those shinning eyes, black like...
Spiritual Cycle Trilogy 1:The Traveller
(Storia Breve)
2-12-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
The latest and the most expensive model of Rolls-Royce stopped in front of a sky scraper. A full uniformed driver emerged and immediately opened the door for Ryan Slate to come out. Ryan passed his hand once over his costly three-piece suit and...
Spiritual Cycle Trilogy 2:The Midnight Rain
(Storia Breve)
2-12-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Spiritual Cycle Trilogy 2: The Midnight Rain
My motorcycle was surrounded by sheer darkness and mist. The territory of inky clouds was expanding swiftly and the chilly turbulent winds were doing their best to devour every iota of heat from...
Spiritual Cycle Trilogy 3: The Key to the Door
(Storia Breve)
2-12-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Spiritual Cycle Trilogy 3: The Key to the Door
The chirping of the birds woke me up. Yawning, I looked at the calendar; it was Sunday and I was to spend the morning drinking tea with Dr. Samuel Nelson. Samuel was an old friend of mine. We...
The Burning Cheek
(Storia Breve)
30-05-2005
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
The slap hit his face like a hammer and he could feel himself being thrown back to the wall in slow motion due to the brute force of that heavy, callous hand. Tears inundated his eyes as he looked up timidly at his fuming father; this wasn’t his...
The Criminal Wave
(Storia Breve)
15-07-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
FBI Special Agent Jack Stewart threw the file on the table and muttered loudly, “A real tough nut to crack”.
“No wonder police failed to solve this baby,” his partner Sam Nolton whistled.
The two agents were exhausted after their...
The Dawn
(Storia Breve)
28-08-2005
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Life is one horrible nightmare, someone had once told him; now, he believed it. It would be surprising to others that such a multi-millionaire and a business tycoon would think that way, but others couldn’t see what was going beneath the...
The Eternal Quest
(Poesia)
9-05-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Everywhere I searched for her
Through wind and tide I looked for her
A person unknown and unfamiliar
Yet I at all times craved for her
And I said,” Be with me, forever."
I searched for her in depths of seas
Over ports and isolated quays...
The Gift
(Storia Breve)
3-11-2003
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
All attempts of human survival have failed. Humanity was nothing but a dying race. The whole complex process of evolution, which had created the spark of intelligence in the shape of Homo-sapiens, appeared to be in vain. Had they evolved just for...
The Hollow World
(Poesia)
28-08-2005
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
A mystic silence fills my ears.
The noise of the rotating fan
dissolving into the void.
My probing eyes, feel as they scan
the room and its walls.
The emptiness of my mind
projects unto the world
through a lens of peculiar kind.
I see...
The Love That We Had Once
(Poesia)
25-12-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
The eyes that I saw once
The smile that I loved once
The secrets that we shared once
The warmth that you showed once
Do they exist still or have they gone?
Like the flowers that bloom at dawn
Gone they have despite my fears
...
The Mother of My Mother
(Storia Breve)
25-12-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
I have an ‘Oxford Dictionary of Current English’ in my hands and the meaning of ‘alive’ is written as ‘living.’ If you skip the pages forward to the ‘L’ section, the meaning of the word ‘living’ is entered as ‘being...
The Painter's Dilemma
(Poesia)
28-08-2005
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
The painter's hand moves
On the lamina it hooves
The brush stirs it with magic
To fill with colors, comic and tragic
The dyes whisper to him
Through the Pierian Spring he has to swim
And he sees a yet unpainted vision
On the white paper
...
The Pakistani Marriage
(Poesia)
31-08-2005
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
The blowing of the trumpets
And the beats of drums
The smiling faces
The shinning eyes
The jumping children
The dancing boys
The excited girls
The gleeful noise
The relatives moving around
In colorful clothes
The servants hustling about...
The Patient
(Storia Breve)
23-05-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
The voice of the newscaster was echoing through the room: “The whole country was moved by the sudden and tragic death of the renowned scholar and reformer, John Ruskin. He brought this country out from the state of anarchy and…”
...
The Rain Within
(Poesia)
9-05-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
When the night grows dark and rain comes up
A thousand memories and a face comes up
The sound of rain creeps up the air
And in my ears thy music comes up
The scent of drops falling on the sand
And thy fragrance at once comes up
When crescent...
The Role of Media and Video Games
(Opinioni)
30-05-2005
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
As sociologists are doing more and more research, a correlation between violence and media is being firmly established. Television and movies have emerged as a very powerful form of entertainment but are they just providing us relief or are they...
The trial
(Storia Breve)
28-03-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
At some point in distant future, there will be a country; a country with extremely high economic disparity, but something will change the situation. The country will have a President; to some he will be a "merciless bastard" and to others he will...
Victory in Disguise
(Storia Breve)
14-05-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
"Over a limit, everything becomes fatal, even triumph itself…"
Mark Swift paced slowly through the throng towards the entrance of the examination hall. Whispers began to emanate from everywhere he passed.
“Oh, my goodness! Isn’t he Mark...
Who Am I?
(Opinioni)
31-05-2004
by Muhammad Awais Aftab
Who am I? This is a question I have asked myself for years but have never found a satisfactory answer. As I ponder deep over this question, I realise that the answer to this mystery encompasses a number of other fundamental and basic philosophical...
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