Afsanah: In Her Words

By Esma Ashraf

Afsanah is a love story.

It is a romantic book of poems that portrays Ishq in an extraordinary fashion. A concept of devotion is considered divine in certain cultures as love is sacred and spiritual.

In this second volume of verse, Esma Ashraf shares poetic insight into her heart, journey through life, and perspectives of the world around her.

Ashraf’s extraordinary titles of the poems, shared in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and English languages, explore a variety of themes and emotions that includes the power of words, sacred love, a veil that masks fantasies, a rippling wave of pleasure, dungeons in the mind, and much more.


“… An inspiring collection of poems that celebrates powerful emotions in their ever-evolving forms of everyday challenges of life.”
—Mirza Iqbal Ashraf, (Retired Professor and Author)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Feb 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9781665738446

Esma Ashraf

Esma Ashraf is the bilingual author of Shamma: The Dancing Flame, winner of best poetry book in 2019 by The Independent Author Book Expo. Her poems have also been published in several magazines. Ashraf is a poetic contributor for Urdu newspaper and currently is working on another project to be published in Pakistan.

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