I AM NOT BARREN

I am not barren.

My fecundity has not dwindled yet ,

Enough as before to bringforth blossoms of all sorts and I do .

Alas ! Frequent invasions of atrocious autumn

Debilitates their potency to bloom in full

To show my greatness in their daintiness and redolence

That would once captivate aves from overseas

To warble in praise of my nature.

O Heaven! Free me from this brutish autumn,

Can’t endure it any more.

To glitter with my flair,

Let clement spring reign over me.

Shafkat Aziz Hajam is a poet, reviewer and co-author from India kashmir. He is the author of the cuckoo’s voice and the Unknown wounded Heart. His poems have appeared in local news papers like Headlines Today and Kashmir Reader and in international literary anthologies like wheel song anthology UK based  ,Prodigy, digital literary magazine USA, PLOTS CREATIVES online literary magazine, USA, Inner Child Press International USA.

Currently he is working as a private school English language teacher in a school namely Hill Park International school in his native town Handwara.