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