Ru?

By Zummar F. Ansari

My emotions have become understated tragedies. Their presence sometimes makes me feel like only the insane mind could harbor such entities. I then decided that I refuse to believe that. Whether it is God that you believe in or a common ancestor, we can all agree on the fact that we, seven and a half billion of us, are descendants of the same genesis. Therefore, we can afford to entertain the idea that our thoughts are not limited to us, that we are not alone in the things that we feel. The poems in this book are declarations of deep vulnerabilities, of silent victories, and most importantly, of the pursuit of making sense of the enigma that is our existence. To my readers, I hope my words help you feel less alone in the conundrum of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Dec 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781546280293

Zummar F. Ansari

Zummar Fatima Ansari is a Pakistani student and writer based in Dubai. Born in 1999, she always had a passion for words and for art but only started composing poetry when she was sixteen years old. She started sharing her work on social media platform Instagram after which she decided to take the traditional route and publish her book. Her first book, R, was published when she was eighteen years old. She is an avid admirer and supporter of all mediums of expression may it be in words or any form of art. When she is not studying or writing, she can be found at the ice rink training to become a professional figure skater or working on various photography projects. She plans to pursue medicine in university.

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Published by AuthorHouse 12/13/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5462-8030-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-8029-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017915479

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Contents

Orphic

Wishful

Polaroid

Insaan

Look Back

Always

Lover, Be Careful

Unpleasant Pleasantries

Fallacy

Tzu

No One Is Truly Lost in the Presence of Art

Name of the Game

Tilikum

Phobia

Warm Heart

Youthful

Unfathomed

Loyalty to the Motherland

Cynical

Nothing Above You

The Unsaid

Wings

Afterthoughts

Shams

Joseph

The Principal Paradox

Letters from Konya

Winehouse

Oracle

An Antipode Epiphany

Validity

Intimidatory

Thank You

Slavery

Figment

Embryo

Letting Go

Fulfilments

Everything and Nothing

Molten Marble

Expiry

Confines

Why

Provenience

Kalopsia

Caves

The Last Hour

Elementary

Delinquent

My Demise

Black Eden

Intellectual Conversations with a Whimsical Biologist

Stars in Every Darkness Save Our Own

Element

Cloudless

Tetrodotoxin

Itch

Frame of Reference

Syria

For Maggie Steber

To My First and Last King

The Audacity of Beauty II

Indoctrination

For Hyb

Tomorrow We Fight Again

Explication

Breaking

Decorum

Rubies

Endurance

Idle

Expressing the Inexpressible

You Cannot Give What You Do Not Have

Letters from Johannesburg

Echo

Realism

Precedence

Underestimated

Verdict

Solace

Selfish

The Self

And Never Is Your Lord Forgetful [19:64]

Dimension 4

Cages on the Trees of Heaven

Native

Limits

Glorious

The Loudest Most Peaceful Silence I Know

Inborn

Flurry

Abstract

Fingerprints

Unadulterated

For Letting Us In

Purpose

I Won’t Tell a Soul

Little Mighty

Origins

Damaged Goods

Ruins

Genuine

War of Words

Polar

Painful Loyalty

Test

The Cosmos in Me

Intrepid

Conflict

Hijab

A Tragedy

Powerless

Ringleader

Metaphorical

Pandemonium

More

Like a Clay Pigeon

J.

Letters from Mexico

Letters from a Durrani

Glad You Left

Letters from Constantinople

Letters from Balochistan

Gravitation

What Have We Done

Just Don’t Forget Your Roots

Forgiveness

Not All the Broken Need Saving

Slates

Scarcity

Blue Sky

Ultimate Consumer

Totka

Prowess

Allegiance

Across the River

Trust Not the Words of Poets

Predators

Floodgates

Miranda

Flounders

The June Riots

Brown Lake

The Promise

Logastellus

Knitting

Afterword

For the love of God

Know that

victory comes

with patience,

relief with affliction,

and ease with

hardship

–Muhammad

To my readers,

In times of great confusion and unrest, I have found that peace lies in the words both of scripture and of mortal origins. I have so much respect and admiration for those artists and poets who have shared their work with the world so that we may be reminded that we are not alone on this path.

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