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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. Heartrending anguish
166. Help me
167. HELP O GOD!
168. Helplessness
169. Her kind of love (With responses by 'Ivor', 'Red Stormy' and Beki Lynn)
170. HER UNSEEN "HI"
171. High above
172. His grin
173. Hope and love
174. HOPE IS OUR REAL STRENGTH -- critiqued
175. How could you?
176. How I laugh, when I should weep! -- critiqued
177. HOW I MISS HER!
178. How my sleep suffers! -- critiqued
179. HOW...WITHOUT YOU?
180. How?
181. Hushed breath -- critiqued
182. Hussain vs tyranny.
183. Hymn
184. I am tired.
185. I cannot forget you
186. I HAVE CHANGED -- critiqued
187. I hope so.
188. I seek... -- critiqued
189. If I knew
190. IF ONLY
191. IF YOU COULD GIVE ME BACK MY DAPHNE!
192. Imperfect man -- critiqued
193. In search of an angel
194. In search of peace
195. IN SKY'S CARESS-2 -- critiqued
196. In sympathy with the innocent people of the USA -- critiqued
197. In the dark.
198. In this barren world
199. INSPIRATION
200. Intimacy
201. IS BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER?
202. Is it love?
203. Is somebody there....for us?
204. Is this a world?
205. IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME
206. IT MATTERS DEAR FATHER
207. Just asking -- critiqued
208. Just one glance.
209. Karma and prayer -- critiqued
210. Kashmir: The bleeding vale
211. Last night
212. Last plea
213. Let Gods wrath descend -- critiqued
214. LET ME BE ME
215. LET ME DRINK MORE AND MORE, O SAQI...
216. Let me unwind
217. Let us be firm
218. Let us go O my heart, ere it's late
219. Let us not be ingrates
220. Let us try -- critiqued
221. Life and love
222. Life these days
223. LIFE, LOVE AND SORROW
224. LIGHT AND DARKNESS
225. Like Samson, Hamza, Ali and Hussain -- critiqued
226. Lillies bloom
227. Lines composed after a days work
228. Lines on Taj Mahal, Mumtaz and Diana
229. LINES ON THE LAST DAY OF 2008
230. LINES WRITTEN AFTER REFLECTING ON EMILY BRONTE
231. Lines written in April 2005 -- critiqued
232. LINES WRITTEN ON A NOVEMBER DAWN, WHILE THINKING OF SOMETHING... AND EVERYTHING
233. LINES WRITTEN ON A SEPTEMBER MORN'
234. Lines written on Ashoora 1423 A.H.
235. Lines written on November the 22nd
236. Lines written on November the 25th of 2008 -- critiqued
237. LIVING ON WITH THE HOPE
238. LONESOME
239. Longing
240. Looking beyond...
241. LOSING MYSELF -- critiqued
242. Love -- critiqued
243. LOVE'S RAINBOW
244. LOVING GOD IN TRUTH...NOT JUST VIA RITUALS.
245. MAY GOD BLESS MY GUARDIAN ANGEL
246. Me and my children
247. Me and others
248. Meetings at night -- critiqued
249. MIRACLE
250. Misery
251. Moods -- critiqued
252. Moonlit wonder
253. MORE AND MORE TEARS -- critiqued
254. More of truth and poetry
255. More quatrains
256. More rubaiyat
257. Morning song -- critiqued
258. MUCH MORE ELEVATED
259. Muhammad Ali vs Henry Cooper -- critiqued
260. My blackmagic woman
261. My daughter Hiba
262. MY DOOMSDAY
263. My morning prayer
264. My responses to selected 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'
265. My reward
266. MY TWO BEST FRIENDS -- critiqued
267. MY UNSPOKEN GLOOM -- critiqued
268. Mysterious ways
269. Mystical musings
270. Myth! -- critiqued
271. New love? -- critiqued
272. Night
273. NIGHT RHAPSODY -- critiqued
274. Night-lady (With responses by Michael Rehling and other poets)
275. Nightingale, Keats, Khayyam, Wilde and me
276. No complaints -- critiqued
277. NO ONE LIKE HER
278. No return
279. Nostalgia - A reply
280. Not the time for sighs (Translation of Ghalib's poem)
281. NOWHERE TO GO
282. O Allah! (Collaboration with Spocky)
283. O Ghalib! -- critiqued
284. O Lord God! -- critiqued
285. O my Defender!
286. Ode to Madhu Jee -- critiqued
287. ODE TO MICHAEL LANDON -- critiqued
288. Ode to my beloved -- critiqued
289. Of men, an owl and wisdom
290. OF YEARS AGO... -- critiqued
291. Offering thanks
292. On a foggy morning
293. On a midsummer's dawn
294. On drinking the poisonous drink of life
295. On movies
296. On my nations 54th Independence Day
297. On the border
298. On the brink -- critiqued
299. ON THE RIVER OF NO RETURN
300. On the state of the world's Muslims
301. ONCE IN A WHILE
302. Once more!
303. ONE AND ZERO
304. One more day
305. One more day?
306. Online -- critiqued
307. ONLY GOOD WILL BE -- critiqued
308. Only He knows
309. Only you
310. Orange day
311. Papa's despair
312. Park scenes -- critiqued
313. Perhaps...
314. Pines Cottage
315. PLANNED ENDING
316. Poetry and truth
317. Poetry and truth (With a response by Deborah Russell (Kuku)
318. POETS AND POETESSES -- critiqued
319. Poison -- critiqued
320. PRAYER IS BETTER THAN SLEEP...
321. Premature greys
322. Prism phase
323. PROPHECIES
324. QUATRAINS BY ME AND DAPHNE
325. Rain
326. RAIN AND LOVE -- critiqued
327. Rain and tears
328. Rare meeting
329. Ray of light
330. Reactionary? (Haiku)
331. Reaping what is sown
332. Recognition - Gypsy way
333. RED MATTERS
334. Reflections
335. Regrets
336. REINCARNATION
337. Relationships.
338. Remembering Madhu Jee (23.2.2003) -- critiqued
339. Reminder
340. Reminder to a lover -- critiqued
341. Rescue me -- critiqued
342. Response to a friend's letter about Special Children
343. Responses to Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-3
344. Responses to Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-4
345. Responses to Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-II
346. Responsibility
347. REUNION -- critiqued
348. Reward
349. Roles
350. Rubaiyat -- critiqued
351. Rumble In The Jungle (Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman) -- critiqued
352. Sadness (With rejoinders by other poets) -- critiqued
353. Sailors song
354. SAY: BE IT SO
355. SEASON OF DECEPTION
356. See you!
357. SEEKING
358. SEEKING FOR A CLUE
359. Seeking safety
360. Separate ways
361. SHAKEN SOUL
362. SHARING MY LONELINESS
363. SHATTERED
364. Shazi
365. She
366. She asked me about love -- critiqued
367. SHE HAS RETURNED -- critiqued
368. SHE IS WHAT SHE IS
369. SHOW ME
370. Silent spectators
371. SINGING TO THE SILENCE AROUND ME
372. SMOKING AND DRINKING
373. So it is
374. So pass some days
375. SOARING
376. Soliloquy -- critiqued
377. Some bonds -- critiqued
378. Some love too is falsehood and lies
379. Some more questions
380. Some more wishes
381. Some questions
382. Some questions, some doubts -- critiqued
383. Some things
384. Somebody?
385. Something wrong?
386. Soul talk -- critiqued
387. Splatter and splash
388. Spring soliloquy
389. Stifled
390. Stone mind
391. Stormwatch
392. Summer rain
393. Summer thoughts
394. TAKE ALL I HAVE AND BE JUST MINE... -- critiqued
395. Tangy lemonade
396. TEARS AND RAIN
397. Tell me how?
398. Tell me, O Lord!
399. TELL ME, PLEASE
400. Thank you!
401. THANKS TO MY GUARDIAN ANGEL
402. The Afghan girls house
403. THE ALPHA AND OMEGA
404. The anti-Christ
405. The beauty of your hue (Collaboration with Deborah Russell)
406. The best -- critiqued
407. THE BLITHE FAIRY
408. THE BRIDE'S SONG
409. The deluge.
410. The Disco Queen.
411. The ending
412. THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY: ALI-FRAZIER-1
413. THE GOOD WOMAN
414. THE INHERITORS
415. The interest is lost....
416. THE IRONY OF FATE -- critiqued
417. THE JOY OF BEING -- critiqued
418. The joy of my living
419. The legend of Muhammad Ali
420. The light of all worlds
421. The man in my life (Collaboration) -- critiqued
422. THE MESSAGE OF KARBALA
423. The New World Order
424. The Night of Ascension
425. THE PALE-WINGED POETESS
426. The Paraclete.
427. The passing of days
428. The perfect man
429. THE POWER OF HER LOVE
430. The ritual of nod
431. The saga of Wembley (Muhammad Ali vs Henry Cooper)
432. The self and the ego -- critiqued
433. The star of hope -- critiqued
434. THE TRUTH LIES HIDDEN...SOMEWHERE
435. The truth that few know
436. The way of the 'Dragon'
437. The winds howl again
438. The world cannot forget you Muhammad Ali.
439. The worshipper and the devotee. -- critiqued
440. THESE DAYS OF MINE
441. These times!
442. Thine -- critiqued
443. Think of your beloved
444. THIS HEART OF MINE
445. THIS TEMPORARY ABODE
446. THIS WORLD IS NOT FOR ME
447. THOUGHTS
448. Thoughts and a prayer
449. Thoughts on a New Years eve.
450. Thoughts on August 14th
451. Thoughts on Eid day
452. Time -- critiqued
453. Time and the web
454. Time's Sway.
455. To a caged bird
456. To a candle.
457. To a little match girl
458. TO A LOVELY CREATURE -- critiqued
459. To be and not to be ..With due respect to Shakespeare -- critiqued
460. To Denise Levertov
461. TO DIE BEFORE WE DIE
462. To my aunt Khalajaan
463. TO MY CHILDREN: HIBA, ALTAMUSH AND MAROOF. -- critiqued
464. TO MY FATHER, ON FATHER'S DAY -- critiqued
465. To my friend
466. TO MY HEART -- critiqued
467. TO N.B. -- critiqued
468. To Noorjehan.
469. To Omar Khayyam.
470. To Shakespeare -- critiqued
471. To the lucky ones in love -- critiqued
472. To the masterminds of terrorism -- critiqued
473. To the people of America
474. TO THE WOMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE (Fourth rejoinder to "Introspection" and " I never walk in fear:.
475. To you, my friend.
476. To you...With help from Emily Bronte
477. Tonight?
478. TOUCH WOOD
479. Tribute to my mother.
480. TRUTH AND BEAUTY -- critiqued
481. Two different worlds -- critiqued
482. Unbound -- critiqued
483. UNENDING LOVE
484. UNPERTURBED
485. VERY PRETTY IS MY LOVED ONE!
486. Views on the days news
487. Voices of the heart. -- critiqued
488. WALTZING WITH DAPHNE -- critiqued
489. Was it a dream?
490. WHAT A REVELATION!
491. What a season!
492. What a sight!
493. WHAT AFFLICTS MY HOMELAND AND WHAT I PRAY FOR.... -- critiqued
494. What does she want? -- critiqued
495. What is the meaning of this pun?
496. WHAT IS TRUE LOVE? -- critiqued
497. What kind of world?
498. What more?
499. What really matters.
500. What the jungle king taught me
501. What's this life?
502. WHEN EVERYTHING FALLS
503. WHEN NOTHING ELSE MATTERS...
504. When she surprised me!
505. WHEN TIME PAUSES
506. When time stood still...
507. When we meet
508. WHEN WE SHALL BE TOGETHER
509. Where are we going?
510. Where are you?
511. Where to go
512. Where to, from here? (With a response by Deborah Russell on 8.8.2002 -- critiqued
513. Who to blame?
514. Who will understand! -- critiqued
515. WHO? (With responses by other poets)
516. Whose is the cross?
517. WHY I DO NOT MARRY AGAIN -- critiqued
518. Why?
519. Why?
520. Why?
521. Will I be answered?
522. Will you, my dearest? -- critiqued
523. Winter
524. WINTER THOUGHTS
525. Winter, Madhubala, Daphne
526. Wish
527. Wishes
528. With Lilliputians -- critiqued
529. WITH MY SAQI AND RED WINE AGAIN
530. With myself -- critiqued
531. With the Afghan girl...after five years
532. With the half-shaded moon
533. With the woman from Jupiter (Response to From the ground by Deborah Russell)
534. WOMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE
535. Womanhood?
536. Worship -- critiqued
537. Worship ... love's highest stage
538. Wounded dove -- critiqued
539. Yes, why not?
540. YET ANOTHER RARE SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTER! -- critiqued
541. You asked; I answer
542. Your night sky is my morning sky...yet....
543. Your promise.
544. Your smile -- critiqued