Taifas Literary Magazine no. 5, November, 2020

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Taifas Literary Magazine no.5, November, 2020
Muhammad ishaq Abbasi
Scott Thomas Outlar
Pakistan
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
My whole life I have to live with Nature,
Teacher dear help to shape my future.
Blank in my mind,like a clear sky,
Furnish me with the knowledge to fly.
Like the God who makes the sun shine,
Make me sparkle,my mind refine.
Help me to gain the knowledge I crave.
Thus I would live till end in a grave.
Teacher
The Beauty
Colorful flowers were blooming,
In a circle along the river.
Inside the circle of flowers,
Different birds formed a circle.
Inside, the peacock was dancing.
When he spread his tail,
It looked like a fan.
His sarcastic style was overwhelming.
His face was as red as a rose petal with pride.
He could see nothing but himself.
After a while, she stopped dancing.
The beauty of the river flow,
The beauty of the flowers,
The different colors of the birds,
and the beauty of the trees also faded before
the peacock's dance and beauty.
Everyone was praising the beauty of the
peacock.
But what about the beauty of the maker of this
beauty?
Of Echoes and Explosions
If mourning doves
and pilot gods
bless our hearts
with promises of flight
the least we can do
is dance ecstatic
and echo the signal
with our feet
or freeze our little tails off
screaming at the sun
to come out and play
- - -
bleed it down
to the final drop
then suck it up
again
and return strong
to the narrow path
- - -
we came from the trees
or from the sea
or some earlier explosion
but all I care about is where we’re headed
Scott Thomas Outlar lives and writes in the suburbs
outside of Atlanta, Georgia. His work has been
nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He
guest-edited the 2019 and 2020 Western Voices
editions of Setu Mag. Selections of his poetry have been
translated into Afrikaans, Albanian, Bengali, Dutch,
French, Italian, Kurdish, Persian, Serbian, and Spanish.
His sixth book, Of Sand and Sugar, was released in 2019.
His podcast, Songs of Selah, airs weekly on 17Numa
Radio and features interviews with contemporary
poets, artists, musicians, and health advocates.
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