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	<title>The Kashmir Walla &#187; Poetry</title>
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		<title>Ode to the rains</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2013/05/ode-to-the-rains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 17:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nida Sayed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nida sayed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Kashmir Walla]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A splendid beauty from the skies descends. Embracing the Earth quenches its long thirst. Down hilltops, meadows and rivers it sends. Its stroke and shine in watery outburst.]]></description>
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		<title>You don’t cry: a poem on Afzal Guru</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2013/03/you-dont-cry-a-poem-on-afzal-guru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manu Kant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afzal Guru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[india lenin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t cry

perhaps, I had no reason to cry

Afzal Guru was a Kashmiri

and I am from India

Afzal Guru was a Muslim by faith

and I was born a Hindu]]></description>
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		<title>From Afzal, to Kashmir</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2013/02/from-afzal-to-kashmir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahi Farxana Munshi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afzal Guru]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Mahi Farxana Munshi I walked above the dusty roads. The untrodden ways in the morning. The blood was dripping down from the sore skies. I knew it was going to end the air in my lungs. The curve on my lips just broadened more. The echo of the eternal bliss was calling my name. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transcreation: Yeh jau raig-e-dasht-e-firaaq hai</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2013/01/transcreation-yeh-jau-raig-e-dasht-e-firaaq-hai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Huzaifa Pandit</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kashmir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kashmiri poets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Huzaifa Pandit Zindagi jabr-e-musalsal ki tarah kaati hai Jaanay kis jurm ki paayi hai saza yaad nahee!! (Life meanders on stooped under a perpetual tyranny What heinous crime begot such punishment? - Devoured by the misty mires of my memory) yeh jo raig-e-dasht-e-firaq hai yeh ruke agar yeh ruke agar to nishaaN mile, yeh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last signature</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2012/12/last-signature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ather Zia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agha Shahid Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kashmir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kashmiri poets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ather Zia Our wounds are labeled forgettable, Shahid Our life before death is imperceptible, Shahid Billboards proclaim, Kashmir: A Paradise God has a reason to be chimerical, Shahid Memory threads tied to wooden roses at Khankah Even simple prayers are incomprehensible, Shahid At Naseem Bagh, your presence was ephemeral Now, your absence is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2012/12/mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farzana Munshi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kashmir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kashmiri poets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Farzana Munshi Her hands are stretched out to the lap of cliffs She’s climbing to heaven by treading falls Her eyes are sapphire Hair woven in gold silk threads Her soul is the pearl harboured in heaven Body’s scent pure as a new born Alas!  Why is she drowned in thought? Why are you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I belong to a Valley</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2012/12/i-belong-to-a-valley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikram Ullah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agha Shahid Ali]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ikram Ullah I belong to a valley grand Himalayas the Pir Panchal Jehlum’s mystifying tranquility Lidder’s restlessness I belong to a valley forlorn a Stalingrad The Red Square without a Kremlin Wall imperialistic want I belong to a valley so bereft traitors sit on res publica thrones My valley echoes Shurkhs of Nund Reshi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2012/12/home-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Furqan Fazili</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kashmir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kashmiri poets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Furqan Fazili A bird weeps alone in a fruitless tree Sun crosses the horizon Moist graves don’t level Unaltered shadows glimmer in smoky air Unwritten lines on hands hide wails A prayer goes unanswered again A garden of corpses floats on a lake A boatman rows on saffron water Red bark of Chinar nailed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are you?</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2012/12/where-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohammad Tabish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[kashmiri poets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Mohammad Tabish Once again night falls I haven’t slept for decades Don’t call it a nightmare I am already dead The stones I throw used to be my home once This hunger is no humor I have taken abode amidst yellow stones My voice froze trying to reach you No archangel fell to witness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAP</title>
		<link>http://www.thekashmirwalla.com/2012/12/rap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehraj Dar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kashmir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kashmiri poets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Mehraj Dar I’ve a right I’ve a choice I’ve a reason I’ve a voice I cried &#38; screamed They deaf &#38; blind I’m Kashmir My soil is drenched Colour is red I was tortured I was burnt I was stormed I was raided I was murdered I was hanged I’m Kashmir My soil is [...]]]></description>
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