Saturday, May 20, 2017

Year with much more than 365 days

I don't know what to call it, its neither a poem nor a narration. There are no melodious rhymes here, there are no smooth strings tying the words together. It is just like your first year - playful, wishful, sloppy, casual & carefree are just few handful of expressions defining it. Its a peculiar tête-à-tête, where I'm speaking now but you'll respond after few years.

First time when I met you, you didn't arrive but your were there. We both were in different worlds, yours was small but sane. Few years down the line you'll come to know that what all I called you when we first met WAS ALL WRONG......

I was wrong to to call you a crescent moon,
when you are a universe for two.

I was wrong to call you  a blossoming bud
when you are the boundless fragrance across the gardens

I was wrong to call you a colorful butterfly
when you can hold all the colors of nature in your 2 inch smile.

I was wrong to call you a melodious chirping bird
when melody is synonymous to your presence itself.

I was wrong to call you a twinkling star
when unlike stars you can twinkle across the clock.

I was wrong to call you a bundle of Joy
when euphoria of your presence is beyond the horizons.

You've turned one year old today but for two you've turned the years. I'll not wish you a happy b'day today, you are a celebration each and every day.

Cya till we meet again in black ink over the white pixels.



Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Who am I?

Everyday, I walk through the Bazar,
watching the spectacles of life,
Probing at every shop, 'who am I'

Observing the wind a Chime Maker says to me
"I'm the joy of a breeze
and I'm the fury of the storm"

Engrossed in his art an Artist tells me
"I'm the finesse of a brush stroke
and i'm the muddle of spilled colors"

At the next stop an astrologer utters
"I'm the fortune of symmetric stars
and I'm the catastrophe of unaligned planets"

I hear a hawker passing by saying
"I'm the respite of the winter sun
and I'm the restlessness of scorching heat"

A potter with pleasant smile says to me
"I'm the tenderness of the clay
and I'm the grit of a pot hardened in the heat"

A postman on his bicycle stops by and says
"I'm the ecstasy of the letter from beloved
and i'm the longing in the wait for next"

A bookseller greets me with his thoughts
"I'm the wisdom of the learned
and I'm the folly of an unwise"

On my march I meet a philosopher and he says
"I'm the integrity of an honest
and i'm the hypocrisy of a wicked"

I come across the last shop of the bazar,
it is as empty as the desert,
it utters through its emptiness
"I'm the light filling the cosmos
and I'm the void in the space"

Falls the day and I come home,
In the dark of the night I gaze the sky
Play of the life unfolds in front of my eyes
None was the shopkeeper but
me telling 'who am I' 

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Arziyaan

Kya maangte ho tum butkade[temple] mai aankhe moonde,
Khuda humme bhi hai ek, dekhte tum to dedaar hota

Bheji thi tumne jo falak mai arziyaa,
vo zameen pe darz karte to na yeh intezaar hota

Ghar

Is ghar mai reh ke mai us ghar ko dhoondta hu

Subha ki chai pe mai chidiya ke chehekne ki awaaj ko dhondta hu

dopeher ki jhapki mai un do jhagadti awaazo ko dhondta hu

Rang birange khusgawar mausam ke bech mai narm sehej hawaao ko dhondta hu

Is ghar mai reh ke mai us ghar ko dhoondta hu

Mehekte pakwaano mai un haantho ke zayke ko dhondta hu

Shyam mai darwaze ke tala pe mai doorbell pe aai us muskaan ko dhondta hu

Raat ki khamoshi me mai un khraanto ki jugalbadi ko dhondta hu

Is ghar mai reh ke mai us ghar ko dhondta hu. 

Monday, January 16, 2017

Aadat (Social Media)

Aaya kya vo paigaam jo kisi ne bheja nahi
hume Is talab mai rehne ki aadat ho gai hai,

Yu hi bantatein firte hai har kisi ka kahaa
hume Tark Na karne ki aadat ho gai hai,

kuch andheron ki, kuch ujaalo ki numayishein rehti hai yaha
hume ujalo ki lau mai raakh hone ki aadat ho gai hai,

hai raaste kuch ujade shaharon ko basane ke bhi yaha
hume lekin khudgarz rehne ki aadat ho gai hai,

hai rang-e-hayat do alfazo ki dastak mai bhi
hume zuban ka tagaful karne ki aadat ho gai hai

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khudgarz - selfish
rang-e-hayat - colors of life
tagaful - inconsideration ( used as 'underuse' in last line)




Pariyo Ki duniya - Kayra2

Aaj isme kho jaane do
yeh jo pariyon ki duniya tumhari hai
na darwaza ho nikalne ka
bas itni si hasrat humari hai

do nannhi mutthi khajano se bhari
yeh tumhari baange azaano se badi,

naye kissey tumhari athkheliyon ke
kuch jhumti hui pheliyon ke

ek nannhi choti taron se jadi
lpti jisme khwabo ki ladi

Aaj isme kho jaane do
yeh jo pariyon ki duniya tumhari hai
na darwaza ho nikalne ka
bas itni si hasrat humari hai

do daant tumhare ghileri se bade
ek haar mai jaisey moti ho jade

ro ro ke jo neende todi thi
sunni tum ko ek lori thi

mamool[routine] humari din raaton ke
bas tumse bhari baaton ke

jude jo tumse sapne hai
ab bas yehi humare apne hai

Aaj isme kho jaane do
yeh jo pariyon ki duniya tumhari hai
na darwaza ho nikalne ka
bas itni si hasrat humari hai