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1. 2008: Another new year? -- critiqued
2. A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN -- critiqued
3. A challenge -- critiqued
4. A desire
5. A dialogue with my Maker -- critiqued
6. A dialogue with nations -- critiqued
7. A DIFFERENT WOMAN -- critiqued
8. A discussion -- critiqued
9. A flower called Daphne
10. A GEM
11. A HOLY MONTH HAS COME
12. A little while more... -- critiqued
13. A longing -- critiqued
14. A MESSAGE TO MY FELLOWMEN -- critiqued
15. A NEW MEANING : Fifth Rejoinder to Melissa Lundeen's INTROSPECTION.
16. A NEW SPRING
17. A plea -- critiqued
18. A prayer -- critiqued
19. A PRAYER...ANSWERED.
20. A QUATRAIN
21. A resolve
22. A response to Alexander Pope's 'Solitude - An Ode'
23. A response to Omar Khayyam
24. A rhapsody -- critiqued
25. A robot's song -- critiqued
26. A song of youth -- critiqued
27. A strange experience
28. A VISION OF LOVE -- critiqued
29. About my first love -- critiqued
30. ABOUT MY HAPPINESS AND SADNESS
31. ABOUT MY MYSTICAL AWARENESS -- critiqued
32. Afterthoughts -- critiqued
33. ALEXANDER'S SOLDIER AND THE TEMPLE DANCER -- critiqued
34. All men are equal? -- critiqued
35. All yours -- critiqued
36. An Afghan girl's questions -- critiqued
37. AN ALIEN TO MYSELF
38. AN EVENING AT THE RIVIERA
39. AN UNSUNG DREAM -- critiqued
40. AND HER NAME IS DAPHNE
41. AND THE HEART BLED
42. Angst
43. ANGUISH
44. Anguish of a tired mind.
45. Another day -- critiqued
46. Another new year! (2002) -- critiqued
47. Another soliloquy
48. Answer me -- critiqued
49. ANY WAY OUT? -- critiqued
50. Anybody, please? -- critiqued
51. Anything?
52. Are we living? -- critiqued
53. As my eyes see
54. At times
55. Autumn -- critiqued
56. Awe inspiring mystery -- critiqued
57. “LOVE” A COLLABORATION WITH RUTH LOVEJOY . -- critiqued
58. Back to the old place
59. Bad omen
60. BE MY REALITY
61. Be?
62. Bear with me -- critiqued
63. Beautiful? -- critiqued
64. Before the storm
65. BETWEEN HELL AND HOUNDS...MANY INFANTS SEEK US....
66. Beware of the Impostor -- critiqued
67. Black and white -- critiqued
68. Bleeding heart (Haiku)
69. BLEEDING SYMPHONIES -- critiqued
70. BLESSED BY GOD -- critiqued
71. BLESSED BY GOD AND DAPHNE
72. Bored
73. Broken vow
74. By the rivulet -- critiqued
75. Cannot forget, what to remember
76. Caravel of time
77. Carrying on... -- critiqued
78. Changing course
79. Choosing
80. CIPHERED POETRY -- critiqued
81. Coleridge and me
82. Conflict
83. Conspiring
84. Contrasts -- critiqued
85. Coping...coping...coping -- critiqued
86. Couplet
87. Cuckoo and the pilgrim - iv (Renga on revelations with Deborah Russell)
88. Cuckoo and the pilgrim -II (Renga on love with Deborah Russell))
89. Cuckoo and the pilgrim -III (Renga on faith with Deborah Russell))
90. Cuckoo and the Pilgrim: Renga on destiny : Muhammad Naveed Ahmed & Deborah Russell -- critiqued
91. Daffodil blooms -- critiqued
92. Dance Muhammad Ali, dance...
93. Daphne -- critiqued
94. DAPHNE ME, ME DAPHNE
95. Darkness
96. Dawn and dusk -- critiqued
97. Deceit (Renga with Deborah Russell)
98. Defining Daphne -- critiqued
99. Deja vu...with thanks to Al Stewart -- critiqued
100. Delinking?
101. Demands
102. Despair
103. Destination where?
104. Destiny. (Haiku) -- critiqued
105. Diana: The princess of hearts
106. Difference -- critiqued
107. Discovering Edens
108. Disguised daybreak
109. Divine state
110. DREARY NIGHT
111. Duress
112. DURING AN AFTERNOON WALK -- critiqued
113. Elegy written on an autumn noon
114. EMBER OF MEMORY (Collaboration with Deborah Russell)
115. EMBER OF MEMORY-II (Collaboration with Deborah Russell) -- critiqued
116. Embrace
117. Empty (Collaboration with four poets)
118. End of winter?
119. ENTRANCED
120. EVEN I AM A LOVER O G0D
121. Evening thoughts
122. Everything Blue
123. Fallen
124. Far away
125. FAREWELL
126. FEBRUARY BLUES -- critiqued
127. Feelings -- critiqued
128. Fie on it
129. Fighting a storm (Haiku)
130. FIGHTING THE STORMS
131. FLASHBACK
132. Fool
133. FOR DAPHNE -- critiqued
134. For Hecuba? -- critiqued
135. For how long, O God?
136. For how long?
137. For Paris, Helen, Troy and?
138. For you am I still something...
139. Forgetfulness
140. Found somewhere?
141. Friends
142. FRIENDS, ALLIES, FELLOWMEN*
143. Friendships -- critiqued
144. From high above
145. From my heart -- critiqued
146. From This Ground
147. Gems
148. GLIMMER OF HOPE
149. GLOOM
150. GLOOM-FILLED SPRING
151. GLORY BE TO HIM
152. God and man.
153. GOD KNOWS BEST -- critiqued
154. God's Amen -- A Rubayi (Quatrain)
155. Goliaths vs Davids
156. Gory times
157. Ha-ha!
158. Haiku on August 25, 2008
159. Hands tied and told to swim
160. HAPPIEST GREETING -- critiqued
161. HATS OFF TO SMOKIN' JOE
162. Haunt -- critiqued
163. He and I
164. Hear me O friend! -- critiqued
165. HEARTACHE -- critiqued
166. Heartrending anguish
167. Help me
168. HELP O GOD!
169. Helplessness
170. Her kind of love (With responses by 'Ivor', 'Red Stormy' and Beki Lynn)
171. HER UNSEEN "HI"
172. High above
173. His grin
174. Hope and love
175. HOPE IS OUR REAL STRENGTH -- critiqued
176. How could you?
177. How I laugh, when I should weep! -- critiqued
178. HOW I MISS HER!
179. How my sleep suffers! -- critiqued
180. HOW...WITHOUT YOU?
181. How?
182. Hushed breath -- critiqued
183. Hussain vs tyranny.
184. Hymn
185. I am tired.
186. I cannot forget you
187. I HAVE CHANGED -- critiqued
188. I hope so.
189. I seek... -- critiqued
190. If I knew
191. IF ONLY
192. IF YOU COULD GIVE ME BACK MY DAPHNE!
193. Imperfect man -- critiqued
194. In search of an angel
195. In search of peace
196. IN SKY'S CARESS-2 -- critiqued
197. In sympathy with the innocent people of the USA -- critiqued
198. In the dark.
199. In this barren world
200. INSPIRATION
201. Intimacy
202. IS BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER?
203. Is it love?
204. Is somebody there....for us?
205. Is this a world?
206. IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME
207. IT MATTERS DEAR FATHER
208. Just asking -- critiqued
209. Just one glance.
210. Karma and prayer -- critiqued
211. Kashmir: The bleeding vale
212. Last night
213. Last plea
214. Let Gods wrath descend -- critiqued
215. LET ME BE ME
216. LET ME DRINK MORE AND MORE, O SAQI...
217. Let me unwind
218. Let us be firm
219. Let us go O my heart, ere it's late
220. Let us not be ingrates
221. Let us try -- critiqued
222. Life and love
223. Life these days
224. LIFE, LOVE AND SORROW
225. LIGHT AND DARKNESS
226. Like Samson, Hamza, Ali and Hussain -- critiqued
227. Lillies bloom
228. Lines composed after a days work
229. Lines on Taj Mahal, Mumtaz and Diana
230. LINES ON THE LAST DAY OF 2008
231. LINES WRITTEN AFTER REFLECTING ON EMILY BRONTE
232. Lines written in April 2005 -- critiqued
233. LINES WRITTEN ON A NOVEMBER DAWN, WHILE THINKING OF SOMETHING... AND EVERYTHING
234. LINES WRITTEN ON A SEPTEMBER MORN'
235. Lines written on Ashoora 1423 A.H.
236. Lines written on November the 22nd
237. Lines written on November the 25th of 2008 -- critiqued
238. LIVING ON WITH THE HOPE
239. LONESOME
240. Longing
241. Looking beyond...
242. LOSING MYSELF -- critiqued
243. Love -- critiqued
244. LOVE'S RAINBOW
245. LOVING GOD IN TRUTH...NOT JUST VIA RITUALS.
246. MAY GOD BLESS MY GUARDIAN ANGEL
247. ME AND HER
248. Me and my children
249. Me and others
250. Meetings at night -- critiqued
251. MIRACLE
252. Misery
253. Moods -- critiqued
254. Moonlit wonder
255. MORE AND MORE TEARS -- critiqued
256. More of truth and poetry
257. More quatrains
258. More rubaiyat
259. Morning song -- critiqued
260. MUCH MORE ELEVATED
261. Muhammad Ali vs Henry Cooper -- critiqued
262. My blackmagic woman
263. My daughter Hiba
264. MY DOOMSDAY
265. MY HEART AND SOUL -- critiqued
266. My morning prayer
267. My responses to selected 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'
268. My reward
269. MY TWO BEST FRIENDS -- critiqued
270. MY UNSPOKEN GLOOM -- critiqued
271. Mysterious ways
272. Mystical musings
273. Myth! -- critiqued
274. New love? -- critiqued
275. Night
276. NIGHT RHAPSODY -- critiqued
277. Night-lady (With responses by Michael Rehling and other poets)
278. Nightingale, Keats, Khayyam, Wilde and me
279. No complaints -- critiqued
280. NO ONE LIKE HER
281. No return
282. Nostalgia - A reply
283. Not the time for sighs (Translation of Ghalib's poem)
284. NOWHERE TO GO
285. O Allah! (Collaboration with Spocky)
286. O Ghalib! -- critiqued
287. O Lord God! -- critiqued
288. O my Defender!
289. O MY HEART
290. Ode to Madhu Jee -- critiqued
291. ODE TO MICHAEL LANDON -- critiqued
292. Ode to my beloved -- critiqued
293. Of men, an owl and wisdom
294. OF YEARS AGO... -- critiqued
295. Offering thanks
296. On a foggy morning
297. On a midsummer's dawn
298. On drinking the poisonous drink of life
299. On movies
300. On my nations 54th Independence Day
301. On the border
302. On the brink -- critiqued
303. ON THE RIVER OF NO RETURN
304. On the state of the world's Muslims
305. ONCE IN A WHILE
306. Once more!
307. ONE AND ZERO
308. One more day
309. One more day?
310. Online -- critiqued
311. ONLY GOOD WILL BE -- critiqued
312. Only He knows
313. Only you
314. Orange day
315. Papa's despair
316. Park scenes -- critiqued
317. Perhaps...
318. Pines Cottage
319. PLANNED ENDING
320. Poetry and truth
321. Poetry and truth (With a response by Deborah Russell (Kuku)
322. POETS AND POETESSES -- critiqued
323. Poison -- critiqued
324. PRAYER IS BETTER THAN SLEEP...
325. Premature greys
326. Prism phase
327. PROPHECIES
328. PUFF AFTER PUFF, BREATH AFTER BREATH
329. QUATRAINS BY ME AND DAPHNE
330. Rain
331. RAIN AND LOVE -- critiqued
332. Rain and tears
333. Rare meeting
334. Ray of light
335. Reactionary? (Haiku)
336. Reaping what is sown
337. Recognition - Gypsy way
338. RED MATTERS
339. Reflections
340. Regrets
341. REINCARNATION
342. Relationships.
343. Remembering Madhu Jee (23.2.2003) -- critiqued
344. Reminder
345. Reminder to a lover -- critiqued
346. Rescue me -- critiqued
347. Response to a friend's letter about Special Children
348. Responses to Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-3
349. Responses to Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-4
350. Responses to Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-II
351. Responsibility
352. REUNION -- critiqued
353. Reward
354. Roles
355. Rubaiyat -- critiqued
356. Rumble In The Jungle (Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman) -- critiqued
357. Sadness (With rejoinders by other poets) -- critiqued
358. Sailors song
359. SANS REASON
360. SAY: BE IT SO
361. SEASON OF DECEPTION
362. See you!
363. SEEKING
364. SEEKING FOR A CLUE
365. Seeking safety
366. Separate ways
367. SHAKEN SOUL
368. SHARING MY LONELINESS
369. SHATTERED
370. Shazi
371. She
372. She asked me about love -- critiqued
373. SHE HAS RETURNED -- critiqued
374. SHE IS WHAT SHE IS
375. SHOW ME
376. Silent spectators
377. SINGING TO THE SILENCE AROUND ME
378. SMOKING AND DRINKING
379. So it is
380. So pass some days
381. SOARING
382. Soliloquy -- critiqued
383. Some bonds -- critiqued
384. Some love too is falsehood and lies
385. Some more questions
386. Some more wishes
387. Some questions
388. Some questions, some doubts -- critiqued
389. Some things
390. Somebody?
391. Something wrong?
392. Soul talk -- critiqued
393. Splatter and splash
394. Spring soliloquy
395. Stifled
396. Stone mind
397. Stormwatch
398. Summer rain
399. Summer thoughts
400. TAKE ALL I HAVE AND BE JUST MINE... -- critiqued
401. Tangy lemonade
402. TEARS AND RAIN
403. Tell me how?
404. Tell me, O Lord!
405. TELL ME, PLEASE
406. Thank you!
407. THANKS TO MY GUARDIAN ANGEL
408. The Afghan girls house
409. THE ALPHA AND OMEGA
410. The anti-Christ
411. The beauty of your hue (Collaboration with Deborah Russell)
412. The best -- critiqued
413. THE BLITHE FAIRY
414. THE BRIDE'S SONG
415. The deluge.
416. The Disco Queen.
417. The ending
418. THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY: ALI-FRAZIER-1
419. THE FOOLISH WOMAN -- critiqued
420. THE GOOD WOMAN
421. THE INHERITORS
422. The interest is lost....
423. THE IRONY OF FATE -- critiqued
424. THE JOY OF BEING -- critiqued
425. The joy of my living
426. The legend of Muhammad Ali
427. The light of all worlds
428. The man in my life (Collaboration) -- critiqued
429. THE MESSAGE OF KARBALA
430. The New World Order
431. The Night of Ascension
432. THE PALE-WINGED POETESS
433. The Paraclete.
434. The passing of days
435. The perfect man
436. THE POWER OF HER LOVE
437. The ritual of nod
438. The saga of Wembley (Muhammad Ali vs Henry Cooper)
439. The self and the ego -- critiqued
440. The star of hope -- critiqued
441. THE TRUTH LIES HIDDEN...SOMEWHERE
442. The truth that few know
443. The way of the 'Dragon'
444. The winds howl again
445. The world cannot forget you Muhammad Ali.
446. The worshipper and the devotee. -- critiqued
447. THESE DAYS OF MINE
448. These times!
449. Thine -- critiqued
450. Think of your beloved
451. THIS HEART OF MINE
452. THIS TEMPORARY ABODE
453. THIS WORLD IS NOT FOR ME
454. THOUGHTS
455. Thoughts and a prayer
456. Thoughts on a New Years eve.
457. Thoughts on August 14th
458. Thoughts on Eid day
459. Time -- critiqued
460. Time and the web
461. Time's Sway.
462. To a caged bird
463. To a candle.
464. To a little match girl
465. TO A LOVELY CREATURE -- critiqued
466. To be and not to be ..With due respect to Shakespeare -- critiqued
467. To Denise Levertov
468. TO DIE BEFORE WE DIE
469. To my aunt Khalajaan
470. TO MY CHILDREN: HIBA, ALTAMUSH AND MAROOF. -- critiqued
471. TO MY FATHER, ON FATHER'S DAY -- critiqued
472. To my friend
473. TO MY HEART -- critiqued
474. TO N.B. -- critiqued
475. To Noorjehan.
476. To Omar Khayyam.
477. To Shakespeare -- critiqued
478. To the lucky ones in love -- critiqued
479. To the masterminds of terrorism -- critiqued
480. To the people of America
481. TO THE WOMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE (Fourth rejoinder to "Introspection" and " I never walk in fear:.
482. To you, my friend.
483. To you...With help from Emily Bronte
484. Tonight?
485. TOUCH WOOD
486. Tribute to my mother.
487. TRUTH AND BEAUTY -- critiqued
488. Two different worlds -- critiqued
489. Unbound -- critiqued
490. UNENDING LOVE
491. UNPERTURBED
492. VERY PRETTY IS MY LOVED ONE!
493. Views on the days news
494. Voices of the heart. -- critiqued
495. WALTZING WITH DAPHNE -- critiqued
496. WANDERING THOUGHTS
497. Was it a dream?
498. WHAT A REVELATION!
499. What a season!
500. What a sight!
501. WHAT AFFLICTS MY HOMELAND AND WHAT I PRAY FOR.... -- critiqued
502. What does she want? -- critiqued
503. What is the meaning of this pun?
504. WHAT IS TRUE LOVE? -- critiqued
505. What kind of world?
506. What more?
507. What really matters.
508. What the jungle king taught me
509. What's this life?
510. WHEN EVERYTHING FALLS
511. WHEN NOTHING ELSE MATTERS...
512. When she surprised me!
513. WHEN TIME PAUSES
514. When time stood still...
515. When we meet
516. WHEN WE SHALL BE TOGETHER
517. Where are we going?
518. Where are you?
519. Where to go
520. Where to, from here? (With a response by Deborah Russell on 8.8.2002 -- critiqued
521. Who to blame?
522. Who will understand! -- critiqued
523. WHO? (With responses by other poets)
524. Whose is the cross?
525. WHY I DO NOT MARRY AGAIN -- critiqued
526. Why?
527. Why?
528. Why?
529. WILE LOVERS
530. Will I be answered?
531. Will you, my dearest? -- critiqued
532. Winter
533. WINTER THOUGHTS
534. Winter, Madhubala, Daphne
535. Wish
536. Wishes
537. With Lilliputians -- critiqued
538. WITH MY SAQI AND RED WINE AGAIN
539. With myself -- critiqued
540. With the Afghan girl...after five years
541. With the half-shaded moon
542. With the woman from Jupiter (Response to From the ground by Deborah Russell)
543. WOMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE
544. Womanhood?
545. Worship -- critiqued
546. Worship ... love's highest stage
547. Wounded dove -- critiqued
548. Yes, why not?
549. YET ANOTHER RARE SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTER! -- critiqued
550. You asked; I answer
551. Your night sky is my morning sky...yet....
552. Your promise.
553. Your smile -- critiqued