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    The Charcoal in the Dust
    The Charcoal in the Dust
    The Charcoal in the Dust
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    The Charcoal in the Dust

    By Nadia Aftab

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    The writer provokes thought envisioned in the inspiring of inner meaning, presented through a spiritual perspective. There is also a quality of sobriety in the somber realization of the ongoing battle between emotion within man from the depths of sorrow to a sense of elation. - The Charcoal in The Dust by Nadia Aftab

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateSep 24, 2012
    ISBN9781477147887
    The Charcoal in the Dust
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    Nadia Aftab

    The writer was born in Scotland and currently resides in her hometown of Glasgow.

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      The Charcoal in the Dust - Nadia Aftab

      The Charcoal

      In The Dust

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      Nadia Aftab

      Copyright © 2012, 2014 by Nadia Aftab.

      Library of Congress Control Number:       2013902184

      ISBN:      Softcover         978-1-4771-4787-0

                       eBook              978-1-4771-4788-7

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 03/20/2014

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris LLC

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      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

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      CONTENTS

      A Crown In Turn

      A Favour Within The Cell

      A Moment

      A Skin Shed

      A Time Passed By

      After The Bullet Shoots

      Along The Roads

      An Illusion Of Sight

      Answers Of Destiny

      Behind The Cracks

      Behind The Iron

      Behind The Walls Of Life

      Clarity In God

      Cloaks

      Comprehension

      Consequence

      Convergence Of Life

      Dead Men

      Desire And Judgement

      Empathy Asks The Earth

      Enchanting Solution

      Enduring The Alternate Angles Of Existence

      Extremities Of Love

      Footsteps

      For Love

      For Man, Gave God

      Forgiveness

      Freedom And Truth

      Ghosts Of Thought

      God’s Answer

      Grief Is The Flower

      Happiness Comes To Die

      In The Attempt Of Greatness

      In The Margins

      In The Shades

      Language To Differ

      Life In Braille

      Life Within Love

      Light And Darkness

      Little Girl

      Lost Sight

      Love Sits On A Bruise

      Madness And Its Pleasures

      Man And The Rose

      My Turn

      Upon The Tightrope

      One Day

      Organisation Of Sweet Revenge

      Oriental Jewels

      Out From The Shade, Under The Light

      Outside The Dream

      Possibility In Time

      Rainbow Black

      Raindrops Of Gold

      Red And Gold

      Shallow Graves

      Silence Side By Side

      Silent To Remain

      Slope Of Endurance

      Sorrow And A Pool Of Light Blue

      Sorrow And Happiness

      Steel Bars Of Colour

      Stormy Webs

      The Centre Point

      The Charcoal In The Dust

      The Comedy Made Of The Comic

      The Cry

      The Distinguished Hand Of God

      The Ending

      The Enemy

      The Foetus

      The Garden Chamber

      The Greed Of The Puritan

      The Hate Of Love

      The Latter Hours Of Slumber

      The Light Too Close

      The Light

      The Messenger

      The Millionth Wave

      The Other Life

      The Pail Of Fire

      The Paraclete

      The Poet’s Answer

      The Power Of Sight

      The Rapturing Smoke

      The Slave

      The Story I Learnt

      The Travels Of A Foreigner

      The Underdog

      The Man ‘God’

      Through Angel Eyes

      To Forget

      To Meet The Night

      Turning The Pages Of Fate

      Under Skies

      Utterances From The Footstool Of A King

      What Is Sorrow?

      What Was Then

      When Your Eyes Close

      Winter Treasures

      Wisdom Unlearnt

      Your Love

      A dedication to my late beloved father,

      Aftab Ahmad,

      who taught me Of God.

      Even as I depart from this world,

      Everyone will say, ‘I knew

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