Perhaps I go back to the beginning and rename the road or erase the memory of destination altogether. Perhaps I sit at the edge of the river where water gushes from the unknown and...

You wanted to jump in and sail into the unknown over the waves of the moment. And I stood still thinking how can you be so close to me and so faraway? You stood...

What if I hadn’t departed so fast and waited for the first spring and the daffodils to bloom? What if love hadn’t been erased from the memory of the garden? What if I had...

You walked away from me and the scent of your lips lingered in the rose garden aimlessly. Then your eyes, those deep grey eyes looked back to find the memory of a gaze which...

The story had a happy ending as such stories might have. Why am I crying then? The white swan watching me from afar asked? Maybe the story should end a different way? Maybe I...

You were talking in your sleep and the words twisted their way from under my pillow to the moonlight over water. And the willow tree combed waves of shadows from my heart and washed...

Poems written by Rouhi Shafii These poems have no history attached to them. Just scattered thoughts from near and afar. You were walking You were walking down the road and the echo of your...

Down the memory lane from under the flakes of shadows a word, so precious to speak so vivid to write so powerful to grasp jumped into the paper and a whirlwind of fire found...