Unwhispered Voices

A poet in words of Ghalib, if can’t see ocean in drop, then his poetry is just playground for children” but here poet has done tremendously well in describing what he has seen and observed. For him, poetry is all about becoming voice of those who don’t know how to express feelings in words. Poetry is in fact not a child’s play it is all about crafting words and yes, the poet has mastery over it. Dreams are more subtle than glass and a poet is guard of dreams. He guards the glasses of dreams by giving hope. Dadlo Zuhrani’s poetry is mixture of hope and despair, laughs and cries love and hate, life and death. It is voice of missing persons and missing seasons. “Unwhisphered voices” is the first work of the author in English, before this he has penned down many short stories and a novel in his mother tongue i.e. Sindhi. “Unwhispered Voices” is definitely thumping arrival on literary landscape. It is rightly remarked that a poet is slave of his emotions what his feelings and emotions make him to write. He paints those words on the white pages. So is true for “Unwhispered Voices”. This is all about Dadlo Zuhrani’s unsaid words. Book captivates you from the very first line and does not free you until you complete. There is whisper of voices of a “Refuge girl” a war-torn country’s unfortunate girl, who has lost her loving father ,a mother with woolen hand and a blue-eyed brother. He authors the pain of a call girl, who was sold by her father. Book is also the unwhispered voice of a mother, who in dark nights kisses the forehead of poet son and egged him on to write poems for her enslaved motherland, young hearts and night-angles even at the cost of being kidnapped by dark forces. This work belongs to a poet who writes in pain, but is living with hope, which keeps him awake in dark nights to write poems, thought which opens new world to poet and he links it with “Strange incidents” where radiant lights turn into irradiant, strange world where a girl screams for help in hands of father and where writers bow before power, strange world where pen is mightier than sword is untrue. This book is full of stories in form of poetry. Story of a flag bearer boy, who hoisted flag on his chest for war of oppressed, never to be lost. Stories of monsters, stories of dancing girls, stories of dreams which are reality and story of beautiful lady, who killed herself. All stories are whispered in “Unwhisphered voices”. Poet has also artistically described the night, noon and morning of the Rome, Rome which was not built in a day. Rome, where poet spent his beautiful days but in confinement due to Corona. Poet compares girls of his country with the ladies of Rome. Poet pens the Anthem of his generation where Zoom has been introduced as a platform of studies. Even though physically separate from each other, eyes of the classmates and colleagues tell the stories on screen, where all fellow feel each other by lovely smiles, dancing on their lips and they make a friendship deeper than oceans. Book is also the Anthem of a black man, who is in the arms of white girl. Book tells us of white girl who is mesmerized by black eyes and has lost her rest. One can only wonder, how beautifully poet has whispered the voices which were unwhispered before.