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Would That poetry

Would That Poetry: A poem of  Longing and Struggle

“Would That Poetry” is a piece of poetry that revolves around human’s longings and struggle. It explores the complex web of wishes and desires in a thought- provoking poem. Let’s delve into the poem, enjoy it.

 Would That

 

“Would that” a  phrase that works whole life,

It directs the struggle of man, woman husband and wife,

 

People give birth to wishes,  and wishes rear them,

Would that, shapes the struggle with tools some.

 

Would that, a bundle of countless wishes,

Like a man, filled tummy sits at the table laden with dishes,

 

In the soft, silky bundle of would that’s thread,

My hands are entwined to hold that, yet.

I’m unable to decide which strands to choose,

Which strands to forsake loose.

 

I have immersed myself in the complex web,

Either it should leave or should weave to next step.

By: R. Naheed

Money representing Would that poetry.

 

“Would That Poetry” exploration of  wishes and longings is in a realistic way that touches the heart of the reader. Many poets wrote about longings in different ways like;

Ghalib says,

ہزاروں خواہشیں ایسی کہ ہر خواہش پہ دم نکلے

بہت نکلے مرے ارمان لیکن پھر بھی کم نکلے ..

Thousands of wishes such

that every wish is fulfilled

Arman died a lot but still less.

 

Robert Frost explains his wish

in this way.

 

Into My Own

One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom. 

I should not be withheld but that some day
Into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e’er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew—
Only more sure of all I thought was true.۔

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