Mahnoor Khan

Mahnoor originally hails from Mailsi, a small city in the heart of Southern Punjab, Pakistan. Currently, she is an undergraduate student studying English Literature and Linguistics at NUML Islamabad. She is fond of cats and roses and even greater fondness for tea and books. She believes that words in written form are the true reflection of one’s innermost self.

Renunciation

Renounce, renounce and renounce!All that makes me feellike a frantic caged bird,fluttering and shriekingfor escape —— from the morselsIt feeds upon,from its own filththat pollutes the cage,and from the gentle breezethat mockingly caresses its trapped wings!

Silhouette

Slams against window The hissing breeze Making foggy shadow As it cease Tiny dew drops Fall in streaks From the reed on slope Standing in bleak It is almost midnight. I wake up with a start. For an instant, I

Scholastic Brothel

It was that golden hour one wild evening in the chaste spring When the sun melted in a pool of warm pink and down it sent a wanton gleam To brush against her soft cheeks and give her curls a fiery tinge

Reverie

Is it 9:00 am already? Each day, at this exact hour, a treacherous beam tricks her fellow rays and breaks free into the dark confines of my room. Escaping the opaqueness of a thick brown curtain through a narrow slit.