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Ink & Quill Poems

Whims and Desires

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 19 April 20258 April 2025Leave a Comment on Whims and Desires

As if it never rained,
As if autumn never swayed

Poems

An empty room full of thoughts

by rafiashakeel.comon 24 January 202524 January 2025Leave a Comment on An empty room full of thoughts

You ask what it’s like.
It’s exactly what melancholy hides!

Poems

My destiny—bold and bright

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 15 December 20243 July 20245 Comments on My destiny—bold and bright

Like the calm after thunder—my heart speaks.
It’s been quite a halt, my life a bleak

Health & Wellness

The Chemistry of Happiness: Understanding the Brain (part # 2)

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 1 March 202521 June 202413 Comments on The Chemistry of Happiness: Understanding the Brain (part # 2)

Let it be Muggles, Wizards, Philosophers or that couch potato munching on Oreos (that’s me btw), We all are in a constant search – The Quest for Happiness.

Meetings of Minds

Back to Basics | Identity | Esteem | Worth

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 1 March 202517 June 20244 Comments on Back to Basics | Identity | Esteem | Worth

Where do we start this project of “Building oneself” when we have to start from the very scratch?

Poems

Makes sense- no more

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 23 January 202514 June 20242 Comments on Makes sense- no more

This revolt within me, a fire consuming,
This world of yours O Lord, makes sense- no more.

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lenses

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 15 December 202428 May 20244 Comments on lenses

What is and what isn’t—a whirlwind of confusion swirling,
Who is and who isn’t—a labyrinth of human identity.

Meetings of Minds

Sumeria: Where Civilization Took Its First Breath

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 1 March 20255 May 202455 Comments on Sumeria: Where Civilization Took Its First Breath

“It was the Anunnaki Gods those who from heaven to earth came”- who resided on a planet at the end of the solar system named “Nebiru”- …..

Poems

Reality seems Oblivious!

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 23 January 20255 February 2024Leave a Comment on Reality seems Oblivious!

Packed in the world of fantasies,
Reality seems oblivious.

Poetic Inspirations Turkish Poets

Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 5 May 20245 January 20241 Comment on Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

No matter if you are rock or the brook, you will change too.
No matter what, do not be still water because
you cannot even perform ablution in that.

Poetic Inspirations Urdu Poets

Adeem hashmi

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 15 December 202427 December 2023Leave a Comment on Adeem hashmi

مفاہمت نہ سکھا جبر ناروا سے مجھے
میں سر بکف ہوں لڑا دے کسی بلا سے مجھے

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Befuddled Thoughts!

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 23 January 202524 December 2023Leave a Comment on Befuddled Thoughts!

Things have changed , it seems.
Encounters verified remoteness,

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Bewildered I Stood!

by rafiashakeel.comupdated on 15 December 202424 December 2023Leave a Comment on Bewildered I Stood!

Bewildered I Stood, looking at the sky,
The Trees standing still, holding the ground.
The Sun going down, coloring the cloud.

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