poems

Melancholy

The winter has seized my heart, I can only hear the silence around me now!
7 July 2022, 00:00 AM

Love, rage, silence: Secret lives of Afghan female poets

With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.
17 February 2016, 05:10 AM