Expressing thoughts and feelings in versified form is one of the most difficult jobs in the world of creative writing. Poets compose their feelings and thoughts to entertain, persuade, inform, or to influence their readers with certain cause in mind. Writing an effective poem, that too which feels unique and true to yourself, asks for a bit of mastery in playing with sound, rhythm, and tone in the poem and apply literary devices to make your poetry truly sound to be a piece of literature. Let’s enjoy an award-winning piece of poetry by Hassan Bukhari, a PakTurk alumni, a brilliant student. He composed this poem for an inter-colleges competition arranged by Shifa Students Society (Islamabad). Hassan was awarded 2nd prize. Heartiest congrats Hassan, and thanks for sharing! Continue making us feel proud of you non-stop by making difference with the might of your pen, and by exhibiting strongest of the characters. Go on contributing in the world most positively. We wish you hundreds of more accomplishments. :)

Future Awaits: What’s next?

Fragile, weak and replete with hunger,

Wrinkles on young faces, dismal their smiles,

Sticks for arms, wretched their cries,

Their roof, the sky, glaring with thunder,

“What have I done?” They say. “What is my blunder?”

I’m chased in streets, “Is beggar my name?”

“Pacifists, Criminals and Culprits!” they claim,

And People believe, give poor the blame,

Who cares if they shatter?

They are not made to matter,

And the neglected only know better,

Than to keep hope, from the latter,

When asked what I see in the future ahead,

I pick up a pencil and draw a picture instead,

I have a Prediction, such is its depiction;

“It will not remain as same!

The misery, pain and the shame,

All shall dissolve in merciful rain,

Once it pours to reach every grain,

The light combined will bring the green,

A scene, never before seen!

And justice will prevail to those who shatter,

For in God’s Store, there’s nothing better”