- AFZAL SHAUQ AS A POET
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By : Prof. Zein El Abedin
THE BRIDE OF PEACE
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This was just a dream
a great ceremony..
an image of the bride
at the marriage of peace
I have within my mind..
The Nashanas sings in English
the music of Mozart..
Gogosh sings in Pashto
Hilton sings in Russian
with Kalsum...
Arab girls danced in Attan
Turks doing Wals
Japanese danced
the rhythm of Belly
to Bolero.
The Poets of the world
were dancing
some the Fox Trot
others the Polka
and even the Flamingo.
In this global ceremony
There was no differences
People were as one
The air filled with love
Everyone truly related.
As with all dreams,
I open my eyes
to a world in turmoil
Where men view other men
as their enemies.
But it was a wonderful dream .
I would like to comment on the poem above and try to focus the attention of readers towards the poet’s great wish for peace , which has expressed in the poem “The Bride of Peace” published in “Twist of Fates” and he successfully generalized the idea of sameness of humankind living all around the world.
How did he gather the different singers keep singing the songs of other languages they don’t know even, in the music of Mozart and why the Arabic girls make dance on Indian way and Indian on the Chinese way ?
I remember, the above question was arose in my mind when I read through the poem and smiled with critically. But after thinking about the theme of poet, I was really surprised and liked the way he did the poem. After getting the idea I understood the idea of poet Afzal Shauq, who wished the humankind be gathered and wish to sensitize the message sameness to the world keeping their instinctive human behavior in view. That’s why he dreamt if the poets of each language chose their dreaming girls out of their regional boundaries in a symbolic way to prevail and promote the humanity with following rule of happy life “let live and live other” and forget about regional, religious and racial differences. Means, Afzal Shauq here just to proves that every thing in the use of humans and even humankind themselves are same and belong to a God gifted human life. But the dream of peace seeking poet become false when he returns to senses and feels.. that human beings can never be gathered as he thinks or dream. I pay tributes and congratulations to Afzal Shauq for his great poem.
Prof. ZEIN EL ABEDIN
Mansura city /
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