If You Are A Teacher Worried By The Oncoming Events Turn To
Published in DAWN The Review March 13, 1997Read More
Open No More Schools
I have surveyed the situation of the education scene of our country and come to a strange but obvious solution: let’s not open any more schools. Let us vow to use those that already exist to the maximum extent possible.Read More
Cover Story by Khalid Mahmood: Interview of Mr. Abbas Husain
An Interview with Abbas Husain
Published in Tuesday Review May 7-13, 1996 of DawnRead More
A Little Light
When you limit your sight
to the hub of the world
and the house you’re watching
is your own indeed
then the need for too many
gadgets at arms length reduces–
and a little light is all you need.
Written on April 29. 1994Read More
Poem To My Wife
Written on October 1993Read More
Thought for Today
In the tumult of the passing day
as sunlight twilight starlight pass the eyes
the sacred dust of love beckons peace.
Wrote on June 19, 1987Read More
On Understanding Understanding
Published on SPELT Newsletter December 1986 by Abbas HusainRead More
Encounter
Boredom nags as excitement waylaid
in the bus as a failure of nerve
creates a gap in welcome recall.Read More
Relationship
Silence deepens the vague ambitions
of you and me and a special him:
we move from one packed moment
to another : unpacking, our changed
minds malinger too long
over lost crossroads and
turns mistaken.
We were not deceived:
We knew all the time that, alone
we could have grappled the very
handles of the universe; together,
we only procrastinated.
Let us have the gentleness of distance then,
let us learn to be lonely, together.
Let us range ourselves in so
parallel a position that like
the spans of a great steel bridge
we shall always see each other aloft—
forever.
Silent Victories are Hardest Won
Written on June 3, 1980Read More