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Deodars and Ruined Temples
Muriel A.E. Brown
Chenar Leaves: Poems of Kashmir (1921)
Mrs. Percy Brown
Published by Longmans,Green and Co (London) in 1921.
On the road to Kashmir
Himalaya’s noble tree, great deodar!
Towering aloft…
A Poet Lost
Under the dark shades of the pine I have lost
I have come again to the city of a tribe lost.
Searching the earth taken under the fabric white
Where children had buried their toys and lost.
The trees are on fire melting the winter frost
And…
Re-living the Winters by Nazuk Kaul
The winter season is a welcome change after the gruelling summer in Delhi. The nip in the air feels gentle as against the memories of gusts of pinching cold breezes of the winters of yesteryears in Kashmir . Kashmir has been a gracious host…
Lalla-Vakyani Or the Wise Sayings of Lal-Ded – A Mystic Poetess of Ancient Kashmir
By K.C.I.E. Sir George Grierson
Published in 1920
PREFACE
THE collection of songs edited in the present volume possesses a two-fold interest. Composed so long ago as the fourteenth century A. D. It claims the attention not only of the…
Soulache – A poem by Syed Rabe’a Bukhari
Pieces of my broken soul still cling to you
Drooping breaths from frail limbs of life
Moonbeams, like quicksilver, skid down my ashen face
I see them quivering and squirming
In tiny puddles of lashing rain
Creating ripples of longing, of…
The Sind Valley
From the Book "KASHMIR'
By Sir Francis Younghusband
1st Published in September 1909
The most striking of the side-valley is undoubtedly the Sind Valley. A fourteen-miles ride, or a night in a boat, takes the traveller to Ganderbal at its…
A Story of Exile – A poem by Mohammad Tabish
You left temples godless behind
on their own, concerned.
You took away deities asleep,
draped in silk soaked with tears
and left behind angels weep.
Hushed I kept listening you leave
in nights cursed, drop after drop,
untold; through the…
A Vapory Noose – A poem by Syed Rabe’a Bukhari
Away from din and delusion of the city
When evening skids down my glum shoulders
And darkness stalks
Like a lost sobbing child
Rambling down a blighted wild,
Weeping clouds accumulate
And sky of my memories turns overcast
Ominous…
Rose Bud
A Short Story by Faruq Masudi
Perched restlessly atop a pink petal, a drop of dew longed for the rosebud to say, “Melt into my inner most recess. Immerse into my deepest fragrance, become one unto me and make me bloom into a blushing…
Lotus flowers on The Dal Lake
Muriel A.E. Brown
Chenar Leaves: Poems of Kashmir (1921)
Mrs. Percy Brown
Published by Longmans,Green and Co (London) in 1921.
Kashmir's soul-flower! thou most sacred bloom
What wondrous treasure lies…