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    Across the Dusty Road
    Across the Dusty Road
    Across the Dusty Road
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    Across the Dusty Road

    By HAVI SHAH

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    Across The Dusty Road is an old expression of new problems. We can feel the reverberations of Keats and Frost in so many of poems. Even then, the originality of thought and diction is unmistakable. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHAVI SHAH
    Release dateDec 26, 2018
    ISBN9781386008408
    Across the Dusty Road
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    HAVI SHAH

    Basit Ali Havi has been writing in both English and Urdu. A great part of his work still remains unpulished. He is a poet, novelist, short story writer and a motivational author. 

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      Book preview

      Across the Dusty Road - HAVI SHAH

      To

      Muhammad Dilpazeer Khan

      ACROSS THE DUSTY ROAD

      Basit Ali Havi

      All Rights Reserved

      NO PART OF THIS BOOK can be transformed, translated, published, or reproduced by any means, electronic or others, without the prior written permission of author.  

      Contents

      1.  ANOTHER HOLIDAY Spent

      2.  A Dustbin of Poverty

      3.  In the Way

      4.  A Coming Morn

      5.  An Old Way on Another Time

      6.  The Birth of a Poem

      7.  To Sorrow

      8.  My Confidence

      9.  O Where This Dirty Road Shall End?

      10.  A Plan for New Towns

      11.  A Friend

      12.  On Untilled Lands

      13.  Across the Dusty Road

      14.  At Traffic Signals

      15.  Inhabitants of Silence and Wait

      16.  A Common Welcome

      17.  Late at Night

      18.  I'm Dying

      19.  Below the Line

      20.  Delirium

      21.  My Love! In All These Circumstances

      22.  My Love! These People with

      23.  Death in Me

      24.  Inevitable

      25.  My Love! It's True

      26.  Old Ass Crossing the Road

      27.  When I feel Tired of Life

      28.  In the Zoo

      29.  More than Nine or Ten Years Back

      30.  How Every Thing Should Be

      31.  A Land I Seek

      32.  Thanks God!

      33.  My Love! Though things seem permanently settled

      34.  To My Son

      35.  Through a Cave

      36.  I Cannot See

      37.  I Lose My Jobs

      38.  A Day Shall Come

      39.  The Battle of Uri

      40.  A Prayer for Pakistan

      41.  A Pakistani's Song

      Another Holiday Spent

      IN SAD REGRETFUL THOUGHTS on my past life,

      How thoughtlessly those glorious youthful days,

      I spent! How recklessly, in different ways,

      How careless and indifferent to my wife,

      I have been! How fruitless and how rife

      My forceful struggles, efforts and waylays

      Have been! How non productively always

      I

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