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For Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Blessings ~~ Sound Sleep No Pain ~

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 sound sleep no pain, on the fresh green grass I have walked and lain,lush sweet scented trees swinging gracefully I have seen,felt  the sun with the breeze cool not too hot, feeling alive after grief and sorrow,losing dear ones,but getting more with morrow eyes to read books and see,hearing music of the spheres, birds gliding chirping flowers smiling,children playing laughing singing,joyful pleasures spreading, and yet  there was day and night fear and fright as I also lived with loss of speech and sight helpless to help one with no help or sense nor remedy for the agony that followed hence life is a blessing with no shoes,if you have feet to walk and legs to stand, a family to love and prayers and grace from above, freedom to write and food enough to share then I may say that one is blessed, countless graces are more than this,we cannot count many we miss...so if there is  enough and  life is n...

For POETS UNITED ~ Poetry Pantry #315 ~ ...My Home Land Kashmir Bleeds

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River Jhelum SRINAGAR Indian Held Kashmir SIRINAGAR  City By the River Jhelum Maha Raja's Palace Srinagar Indian Held Kashmir My homeland bleeds , blood is black  Freedom shackled Freedom fettered my people suppressed, sprayed with bullets, tear gas and pellets,scattered innocents blinded youth martyred women girls half widowed,dreams shattered, Kashmiri Lives Mattered Allah creates Life,Kashmiri Lives Matter,  I am free but I should care, raise voice  Cry Out for Justice, not merely chatter O My People Fighting with Faithful Hope with stones and bricks facing smoke,spattered I too am in fetters, but not my heart spirit and pen,I send my words of prayers faster signs of freedom near, appear in visions chains will break, as guns and flags fall Truth stands clear and tall, white is black Not long not long before Freedom is back' This is the Fifth Generation of the Kashmiri People fighting ...