strands
  • Home
  • Competitions
    • Strands International Flash Fiction Competition >
      • Results
      • Competition Judge
      • Submit
    • Water - Short Story (May 31, 2017) >
      • Results
      • Important Dates
      • Rules
    • Fire - Short Story (Nov 30, 2016) >
      • Results
      • Competition Judge
      • Important Dates
  • Contact
  • Call for Submissions
  • Lit Sphere
    • Novels >
      • Mrs. Saville by Ted Morrissey
      • Shueli's Star by Anna Sujatha Mathai
    • Poetry
    • Visual Art
    • Short Fiction
    • Creative Nonfiction
    • Reviews
    • Interviews
Strands Publishers

LIT SPHERE

Ezine

The Moon Dream

9/14/2016

6 Comments

 
Poetry
Mohammad Zahid

​The moon stares
over the cold mountains 
and the dying dusk
in the background.
The leafless skeletons
of chinar trees
haunt the grey sky
like ghosts
in search of lost souls,
when the wind makes
a moaning sound
and sleepless dreams
wander, looking for
​interpretations…
 
There are no stars tonight,
the clouds look like phantoms,
amoebae shaped,
much like these dreams
of molten terracotta; fluidic.
​
Far below on the earth,
young children
point their fingers at the moon,
​asking for it.
The grownups fret and fume
at these childish squabbles;
the children fall asleep
with smiles on their faces.
 
They dream of a madman
breaking the moon
into a thousand quicksilver balls
on the surface of water in his bowl.
 
  
Picture
​Mohammed Zahid’s first collection of poems is  The Pheromone Trail, (Cyberwit, 2013). He has read his poems at Guntur International Poetry Festival 2012, and Hyderabad Literary Festivals (2010, 2013). He is featured in TIMESCAPES, a poetry collection of 22 Indian poets, by Unisun Publications and Reliance Timeout.
His poetry has appeared in peer reviewed journals like The Four Quarters Magazine, Maulana Azad Journal of English Language & Literature of MANUU Hyderabad, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, and Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis. He won the Unisun Publications Reliance Timeout Poetry award in 2010 for his poem Amante Egare.
His own poems in English language and poetry translations from Kashmiri and Urdu feature in Sheeraza, a journal from Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, Srinagar, Kashmir. A major translation work by him on the criticism of Kashmiri poetry is being published shortly by the academy.  
He is a Translation Editor of Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts.

6 Comments
rush my essay.com link
10/13/2016 09:45:42 am

If only moons could talk to us. He can say the things that we want to know that only he knows. He's way above there but he can be heard. And the stars will be his little commanders, telling him the secrets of all the people in the world. When I was young, I used to think that I could fly to the sky and live on the moon. Then I realized that I had to be an astronaut to do that. My dream shattered because of that.

Reply
Mohammad Zahid
6/6/2019 08:48:29 am

I just happened to visit this page after a long gap. Your observation is quite interesting. Thank you :)

Reply
Nancy Freund link
7/23/2017 05:15:33 am

Oh! What a beautiful image this poem rolls toward and delivers. Magic. Those quicksilver balls! Lovely.

Reply
Mohammad Zahid
6/6/2019 08:46:39 am

I just happened to visit this page after a long gap. Thank you so much for your comment.

Reply
Sultana Raza
10/1/2017 06:53:25 am

Lovely poem. Very evocative. Haunting. One of the best in free verse.

Reply
Mohammad Zahid
6/6/2019 08:47:42 am

I just happened to visit this page after a long gap. Thank you so much.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Strands

    Fiction~Poetry~Translations~Reviews~Interviews~Visual Arts

    Archives

    March 2022
    December 2021
    September 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    October 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    November 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Competitions
    • Strands International Flash Fiction Competition >
      • Results
      • Competition Judge
      • Submit
    • Water - Short Story (May 31, 2017) >
      • Results
      • Important Dates
      • Rules
    • Fire - Short Story (Nov 30, 2016) >
      • Results
      • Competition Judge
      • Important Dates
  • Contact
  • Call for Submissions
  • Lit Sphere
    • Novels >
      • Mrs. Saville by Ted Morrissey
      • Shueli's Star by Anna Sujatha Mathai
    • Poetry
    • Visual Art
    • Short Fiction
    • Creative Nonfiction
    • Reviews
    • Interviews