More in Poetry
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आधार
सुर्ख नशीली धुंध में आहटें समेट लेते थे अब चमकीली धूप में राहें कम पढ़ जाएँ मन भागे तो चार दिशाएं कम पढ़ जाएँ कोई डूबे तो सात सत्ताहें...
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Faiz’s Aaj Baazaar Mein – Translated and Explained
By Toronto based Poet, Anis Zuberi Courtesy, Junaid Zuberi Another translation of Faiz rendered by a Toronto based poet – Anis Zuberi. This is a timeless poem or nazm, aaj...
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कबीर के दोहे – 1
This is the first post on Sant Kabir’s verses – called Dohe. I will bring more of these everyday.
बिरछा कबहूँ न फल भखै, नदी न अन्चवे नीर
परमार्थ के कारने, साधू धरा शरीर| -
Badlaav
Unka kehna hai,”badlaav bahut zaruri hai”
Phir kyun suraj har roz niyam se, subah savere aata hai
Aur sham ki chaadar odhe, chup chaap kahin so jaata hai -
Ghar
Wo shehr jise main ghar kehta tha
Jahaan mera bachpan rehta tha
Wo shehr zara badla lagta hai
Bas yaadon mein apna lagta haiJisne pairon ko pankh diye
Ta umra jahan sapnon ko jiye -
Behnde Dariya
For the first time, I’ve written something in punjabi. And of all the places, I wrote this when I’m sitting in kerala, surrounded by malayalis and malayalam. Don’t know why but it just happened.
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Shehr
kuchh badla badla sa yeh shehr nazar aata hai ab
zindagi shayad kuchh aur rang dikhayegiek ajab si badbu hai hawaon mein
zehen ki sadan shareer tak pahunch gayi hai shayad -
Teri Raat
Aadhi andheri raat mein, ek pura chaand tha
aur teri yaad mein, aadha adhura maintim timaati battiyaan sab, jal rahi thi paas mein
taare kehte hain unhe, itna toh tab bhi yaad tha -
Woh!
main aankde milata reh gaya
woh hisaab kar ke chal diye
main lafz dhoondhta reh gaya
woh poori baat karke chal diyeuski aankhon mein jo sawaal the
mere lafz unhe na jhuthla sake -
क्यूंकि यहाँ चोट नहीं लगती
पैरों तले ज़मीन खिसक गयी,
और पाँव आसमान पर जड़ गए,
पर आदत से मजबूर, रोज़ गिरती हूँ,
मगर चोट नहीं लगती!कोई छोटा सा बादल संभाल लेता है,
नज़रें उठाती हूँ तो ज़मीन सर के ऊपर, -
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Baarishein
Aapki window aur meri khidki ke darmiyan,
Us chotey sey faasle mein hi,
Kuch boondein baadlon sey phisal ayeiin,
Pehle to light si pittar-patter thi,
Ab ghata ganghor hai,From your windows,
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We are One
We are all One here.
We are all One on this tiny, spinning, blue and white planet,
This rocky “goldilocks” planet, at just the right distance from its sun, -
No mans land
Whispering into the ears of timeless eternity,
I’m traversing through many worlds, dimensions & spaces.
Scared to stop anywhere, lest I cling onto deadly conditionings- -
चांदनी की फसल
रिश्तों की टहनी पर चांदनी खिल रही थी
बादलों के झरोखे में से सिमटी हुयी एक किरण का सहारा लिएआज हवा घडी भर थम जाए तो अच्छा है
वर्ना हमारे शहर के दिन लम्बे है और रातें छोटीं -
Ghost Wanderers
Hark now bloods of a mocking feather
Spruce up my lips once rosy now wane
Tan my spoils of skin ye gold leather
Ghost wanderer I err in eerie planeDance of rain I invoked dark weather
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Heart of the Condor
I fly on silver wings of light
through canyon mists of time
My heart
soars like an eagle
I sail in silence . . .
noiseless
on silver wings of flight
My heart -
Aise hi!
Many months back, I began to write a story from male perspective when this thought came to me! It was an effort to reflect someone’s longing for the unattainable.
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For the Ones Who Came
Up, up into
Blindingly white light
We soar,
The wings of our plane
Piercing bounteous billowing lovely
Cloudscapes washed with hues of
Alabaster
And moonstoneCloudscapes collecting,
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शोर-शराबा
फिर कोई शोर-शराबा हो
एक बार फिर चौंक जायें.
फिर आधी मूंदी आँखों
के सपने अधूरे रह जायें.
फिर आँखें मूँद लें
वोह था जो सपने में
फिर अपनी झलक दिखला जाए.
अधूरी कोई बात थी
उसे पूरा कर जाए. -
Message in a bottle, love do not throttle
When I look and I see I’m not so blinded
When you talk so vain I do get wounded
When I listen I hear you, am astounded
When I read, I know my heart pounded -
Body Parts: a poem
Piece me, piece me, piece me for the pot
Piece me, minced love me or love me notSome like it raw others like it boiling hot
So put on the kettle, seize it now this lot -
The Crumpled Flower
With the bloom of the flower, I move on
With the break of the dawn,I move on
With each heart ache, I learn to let go
With each barrier built, I learn to forgo.I am just a weak mortal
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How Much
How much I wanted to spend my life with you,
How much I wanted to give all my love to you,
How much I wanted to shower all happiness on you,
How much I wanted to give my everything to you,
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I too had a Love Story
I too fell in love,
I too hugged life,
I too felt beautiful,
I too had a Love story.It was fun, it was special;
It was cozy, it was cold;
It was breezy, it was sunny; -
Call on hold
Thank you for you patience
but all our girls are busy!
Juliet? she is not there
moreover, you cannot be choosyYou are a valued customer,
shortly someone will be with you
they are handling others now
will talk to you once through -
Just Because She was a Girl
When she was born, they frowned and said what a fate,
We didn’t want for our son, a girl mate,
No ceremony, nothing, just…
Just because she was a girl!When she should have played,
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When you sprinkled the dew drops
This poem is the expression of a plant.
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Yugbodh ka Hastakshar
I read this poem and found it very motivational. Wanted to share it with all.
दिग्भ्रमित क्या कर सकेंगीं, भ्रांतियाँ मुझको डगर में;
मैं समय के भाल पर, युगबोध का हस्ताक्षर| -
Writing Poetry
Take a wide brimmed glass,
holding it in style
pour some twisted thoughts,
and shake it for a while..A spoon full of words,
ripe and carefully selected-
mix them with a stirrer,
till both gets connected.. -
तेरी गोद ही संपूर्ण सृष्टि हो
माँ आज तू नहीं है यहाँ
जैसे तेरी राख गंगा की हर लहर में
समायी थी.मैं जानता हूँ माँ ठीक वैसे ही
सृष्टि की हर लहर में तेरी गूँज है.यह तारों की चमक,
यह पत्तों का हिलना, -
You bring out the Bengali in me!
This is for all the the Bengalis – actually I came across a poem by Sandra Cisnero – ” You bring out the Mexican in me” which prompted me to write this lines over a small shot of Mojito
Some of the -
Arrogance
i don’t promise
to give up anything
just for the sake of you
i don’t promise
to leave my drink -
वर्तमान की यथार्थता
हम दसवीं कक्षा में पड़ते थे और मुझे हिंदी की कवितायें लिखने में रूचि थी | एक दिन हमारा एक कक्षार्थी सभको कविता लिखने के लिए आमंत्रित कर रहा था | एक कविता प्रतियोगिता के लिए कवितायेँ भेजनी थी स्कूल की