Poem - Mere Extolments, Poet - Shafkat Aziz Hajam

 

Shafkat Aziz Hajam is a  poet, reviewer and co-author from India kashmir , District:  Kupwara, Tehsil :Handwara , village :Kargama .He is the author of a value based children's poetry ( rhyme book) titled as "The cuckoo’s voice"  .He has also  authored one adults' poetry book titled as "The  Unknown Wounded Heart " and has written more than 100 funny limericks ( five versed poems ) for children. His poems have appeared in local news papers like Headlines Today and Kashmir Reader and in international literary  anthologies, magazines and journals like Inner Child Press International anthology USA , AZAHAR magazine from Spain , SAARC anthology, Litlight literary magazine, Pakistan , Wheel song anthology UK, Prodigy, digital literary magazine USA, PLOTS CREATIVES online literary magazine, USA and translated works in other anthology in Argentina and Lebanon. His has remained a poetry contest winner of the month in the  USA . He has reviewed many poetry books of renowned English writers.He has received many certificates of appreciation for participating in many foreign poetry contests .He has been interviewed on podcast by Maxwanette , chief in editor of the PLOTS CREATIVES online literary magazine, from Kismee , Florida, USA and by a Poetess  Noreen Ann Synder , USA and has been selected for poetry recitation on UDAN TV , Bangladesh and interviewed by Chinar Radio 90.4 FM kashmir, District Baramullah , Sopore. Currently he is working as a private school English language teacher in a school namely Hill Park International Secondary school located in his native town Handwara. His poems are being published by The Global Nation news paper Bangladesh. He is expected to be a future popular poet at national and international level.


Mere Extolments

Forsaken though a treasure you call me.
You call me a burning lamp ! Am I ?
Keep me from a gush of wind
I will keep lighting your dark abode .
You call me a joy! Am I ?
Let me enter your life , you’ll forget woes.
You call me a good companion, Am I ?
Hold my hand , you’ll relish your journey.
You call me a sweet alyssum ,Am I ?
Plant me in your garden , I’ll spread the aroma
You call me a great idea, Am I ?
Exert me for your gain
or I won’t serve you through your
mere extolment.
For both it’s all in vain.