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Japanese Gogyoshi Style English Poetry by Nasir Aijaz – Sindh, Pakistan
Zero Hour
December surrenders to January at zero hour
The moment for the people to welcome the New Year
Wasting billions of dollars on bullets, fired in the air,
With thunders like the launch of military operations,
Instead of buying happiness to the poor.
Dreams Fly Out
I let loose the dreams
To fly out of the window
Like a bird
To enjoy the freedom under the open sky
Unlike me, languishing in a cage of the world.
Time does not stop
The clock stops ticking
Its arms are motionless
Complete silence prevails
It doesn’t mean that
The time too has stopped.
Fight for the Right
Fight for the right
Come what may
Don’t get suppressed by military might.
Humans are born free
Freedom is their birthright.
About Nasir Aijaz
Nasir Aijaz, based in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province of Pakistan, is a senior and Gold Medalist journalist. He also worked as a TV Anchor for over a decade and conducted some 400 programs besides appearing as analyst in several current affairs programs on TV and Radio channels. He is award-winner author of ten books on history, language, literature, travelogue and biography. Some of his other books are unpublished. Besides, he has written around 500 articles in English, Urdu and Sindhi, the native language of Sindh. He is editor of Sindh Courier, an online magazine and represents The AsiaN, an online news service of South Korea with regular contribution for eleven years. His articles have also been translated in Arabic and Korean languages. Some of his English articles were published in Singapore and India and Nigeria. He writes poetry in his native language Sindhi, and in English. Some of his poems have been translated in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and Malayalam, Albanian, Italian, Greek and Arabic language published in Egypt, Abu Dhabi, Iraq, Bangladesh, India, Kosovo, USA, Tajikistan, Greece, Italy, Germany and some other countries. He has visited some ten Asian countries and attended international seminars.
