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Muhammad Nasrullah Khan is a Pakistani-Canadian writer. His short stories are well-recognized internationally for his unique prose style, and really naive innocence of rural life of Asia. His short stories Donkey-Man and Only Nada Lives were nominated for the Story South Million Writers Award. Enlivened by the stories of great English and Russian writers, he has taken a pinch of fact and a cup of fiction to weave an embroidered creative work of adoration, trust, and agony in his stories. His work has appeared in Adbusters, Evergreen review, Indiana Voice Journal, Newtopia Magazine, Gowanus Books,Offcourse literary Journal University at Albany, The Raven Chronicles, and many others. His book is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D7WZXVL

  January 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 6 total

I Carry the Burden of Dreams

I wish I could lead you back to the weaving tracks,
we carved in our youth
the white mare we rode together,
I cupped hands and heaved you up
picked the mushrooms,
and above all, the dreams we shared.

Listen: those dreams are heavier now,
I...

by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan

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Your Touch

Through the window of my room,
I behold the white mountains,
the sunlight beams down,
reflecting back on me.
My soul merges with the colors.
In the twilight of your beautiful city,
a lonely bird disappears in the horizon.
I feel you.

The...

by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan

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Your Footprints on Snow

Since you left,
sorrow dances on the white streets,
Love is a drum,
beating with sad hands,
The drum cries like a lost child
birds forget their songs,
people, like dogs, cower.
You draped old dreams
on naked trees.
Nightingales devoured...

by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan

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Dear Developed World

“Fit in!" you summoned.
My dark eyes bowed.

 like a sheep I followed,
and you let me in this amazing world.
I walked through your beautiful city,
water views and mountain vistas ahead of me.
Aged buildings whispered to me
of the shared...

by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan

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Farewell Song for Migrating Cranes

Farewell migrating cranes,
your fields have turned dry,
like the heart of my country--a long journey awaits.
Although it may kill,
yet you rip through the air with certainty and grace.
Let me wave,
and listen to your song one last time,
your...

by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan

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