The Fugitive Sunshine: Selected Poems

By Syeda Afshana

The book is a collection of poems written over the tumultuous period in Kashmir. It depicts the public sentiment and ambience of the time, besides the poetic response of author to commonplace situations of the life and the world we live in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Sep 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781482810882

Syeda Afshana

Syeda Afshana is a faculty at Media Education Research Centre, University of Kashmir. Alumnus of International Academy of Leadership, Germany, and a Visiting Fellow at Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University, she has extensively written on media, politics, conflict, women, and other aspects of society. She is a columnist and has earned doctorate on her research work “Media Response to 26/11: A study of Indian Print Media”. Her specialization includes International Relations and Communication, Conflict Studies, Narrative and Convergent Journalism. She has also authored several books on related themes.

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The Fugitive

Sunshine

Selected Poems

SYEDA AFSHANA

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Copyright © 2013 by Syeda Afshana.

ISBN:              Softcover                        978-1-4828-1089-9

                        Ebook                            978-1-4828-1088-2

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Contents

Foreword

Terms

Time And Life

Me And I

A Companion

Oscillations

Dark Room

Lame Time

Realities

Thank You, God!

Trade of Relations

A Flight

Utopia

A Silver Lining

A Wanton Fury

Antidote

Bear

But Perhaps

Her Soul

A Far Cry

A Scream

Fidelity

Another Dark Night

Stormy Lethe

The Waterloo

Reminder

Unknown Voice

Return Of Phoenix

All Blood, No Snow

Seesaw

Future of The Past

Motherly Verse

A Murmur Within

Winters Voice

Keep Going

Do’s and Don’ts

A Mirage

Broken Idols

Nonchalance

Dream Portrait

My Songs

A Fresh Verve

A Pyrrhic Victory

Silent Talk

Déjà Vu

Radio Kashmir

A Swan song

Anonymity

A Dilemma

Page of Blood

Coalesce

City of Death

Antithesis

Retreat

Sulaiman

I dedicate this book

to my dear parents

This is the song of the downing day

And the ending night. Listen to it.

And from the harsh suffering,

Let the confident voice emerge.

(Pablo Neruda)

A word

The lines jotted down in this book

are simply a gift of God to me,

nothing else.

I am not a poet yet,

simply a novice.

(Syeda Afshana)

Foreword

I have been admiring Afshana’s poems since she made her first girlish attempts to run after the eerie words, jingling rhymes, and the moral lessons. Since then there has been a continuous growth in the making of the poetess in her. Now when in the poems included in The Fugitive Sunshine there is the burden of experience and protest that Afshana wants to give vent, I am tempted to sing a hymn of celebration