Dr. Hammad Ahmed Bhatti is a physician by profession, an ex-civil servant by compassion, and a poet by passion settled in the UAE for more than two decades. Raised in the cultural heartland of Pakistan, he grew up surrounded by the aura of books, nature, spiritualism, and meaningful friendships that shaped his reflective soul. Having lived and traveled across diverse landscapes around the globe his work captures fleeting moments with clarity, grace, and emotional depth. With a career spanning in the different specialties of medicine, public service, and literary expression, Dr. Bhatti brings a rare blend of sensitivity, intellect, and introspection to his multilingual prose and poetic writings. It is an intimate collection of poems rooted in his personal reflection and inspired by nature, nostalgia, love, and journey. Each poem is a pressed petal from the garden of time: subtle, fragrant, and everlasting. Potpourri: Petals of the Past is his first anthology of English poems, although 6th in toto after his previously published books in Urdu and Punjabi languages. Safdar Hussain Al-Hamd Publications