• Poems on Life
    • Butterfly effect
    • children on the street
    • Come see
    • labelled destiny
    • Relic
    • A tree woke up
    • Heaven will rain
    • Removed from reality
    • Unless We Touch Flowers
    • Drive towards
    • long gone but here
  • Spiritual Poems
    • My thought is now electric
    • I speak in magical metaphor
    • comes the sacred
    • gently astonished
    • The absurd
    • I do not know…
    • mightier wings
    • Only Sun Remain
    • Others Bolder than I
    • Perspectives
    • sprinkle some sun and wait
    • tiny prayers
    • Wear a red sky today
    • Wakened Sea
    • what flowers have found
    • My father spoke to me
    • The Cold
    • Whitman Devastated
  • Urdu Poetry
    • Ho Jai
    • Noorani Roshni
    • Hum Nay Dekha
  • Other Poets
    • Introduction to Poetry
  • Thoughts
    • The Good Atheist
    • Thoughtful vs Literal
    • Levels of Prayer
    • Being Whole-Hearted
    • Debating Feelings
    • You are crafted by events
    • Self-Honesty
    • Love without Analysis
    • Cruel Beliefs
    • Knowing and Believing
    • Good Faith, Bad Faith
    • Unbiased Discussion
    • Faith Without Compassion
    • Peace in the Background
  • Poems on Life
    • Poems on Life 1
      • Butterfly effect
      • children on the street
      • Come see
      • labelled destiny
      • Relic
      • A tree woke up
    • Poems on Life 2
      • Heaven will rain
      • Removed from reality
      • Unless We Touch Flowers
      • Drive towards
      • long gone but here
  • Spiritual Poems
    • Spiritual Poems 1
      • My thought is now electric
      • I speak in magical metaphor
      • comes the sacred
      • gently astonished
      • The absurd
      • I do not know…
    • Spiritual Poems 2
      • mightier wings
      • Only Sun Remain
      • Others Bolder than I
      • Perspectives
      • sprinkle some sun and wait
      • tiny prayers
    • Spiritual Poems 3
      • Wear a red sky today
      • Wakened Sea
      • what flowers have found
      • My father spoke to me
      • The Cold
      • Whitman Devastated
  • Urdu Poetry
    • Noorani Roshni
    • Hum Nay Dekha
    • Ho Jai
  • Other Poets
    • Introduction to Poetry
  • Thoughts
    • Thoughts 1
      • The Good Atheist
      • Thoughtful vs Literal
      • Levels of Prayer
      • Being Whole-Hearted
      • Debating Feelings
    • Thoughts 2
      • You are crafted byevents
      • Self-Honesty
      • Love without Analysis
      • Cruel Beliefs
      • Knowing and Believing
    • Thoughts 3
      • Good Faith, Bad Faith
      • Unbiased Discussion
      • Faith Without Compassion
      • Peace in the Background

children on the street

January 6, 2010

My little children on the street
braving the cold, their tale untold
invisible to all they meet

picking up litter in stifling heat
wearing smiles while walking miles
my little children in bare feet

chatting with strangers just to be sweet
dispensing lies, pretense cries
invisible to all they meet

gushing with joy they happily greet
those who pretend to be their friend
my little children on the street

whom no one knows yet all mistreat
cushions for pins, born without sins
invisible to all they meet

running around in bare feet
pain overdone, future none
my little children on the street
invisible to all they meet

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Poems on Life

Ali Ghaznavi

9 Comments


ruby
January 9, 2010 at 12:58 am

Heart-rending, and is sure to well up eyes.



shabana hussain
January 24, 2010 at 4:18 am

This is just so touching.Your words wake up the emotions long buried and dead ,the human in me.The rat race has made us into machines incapable of feeling or working towards the immaterial..Thank you for these words .



Iqra
November 8, 2011 at 6:36 am

Awesome poems but i havent read all of em



Minahil
November 8, 2011 at 6:37 am

Wow ali mamu i cant believe ur a poet beautiful poems btw 🙂



Saad
November 8, 2011 at 6:37 am

Nice abu 🙂



Baber Khokher
February 23, 2012 at 11:11 pm

Amaazzzzzinggg! All i can say is: kuch kahoon to kaha nahhi jata, aur naa kahoon to raha nahi jata.

I had no idea you are such a sensitive person.



akhter
September 9, 2013 at 11:54 pm

Most of your poems bring tears to the eyes but this one the most.



Rabbania Ghaznavi
November 30, 2020 at 10:12 am

Thundering compassion in this poem !



Rabbania
April 13, 2022 at 1:22 pm

A heart-felt awakening, and rousing poem.



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