जनून

टहनियों के रसुक से
दरख्त भी  हरे  भरे लगते  हैं 
फिर  पतझर का यह कुहापन 
जमीं पर क्यों नज़र अाता  है 

माना की मौसम का मिजाज
शुस्क  है बजरने के लिए
फिर  ये  लमहा क्यूँ  है 
आफताब लिए हुये

कभी हम भी थे हुनरमन्द
लब्जों का  तलब लिए  हुये
फिर ये गमजदा क्युँ  है 
पूरा आसमां  लिए  हुये 

माना की आह  की लपट
दिल को आग  लगाती  है
फिर  क्युँ  जर्रे जर्रे पर 
एबादत का  जनून  शर्द है

क्या रौशन करूँ

माँ! क्या रौशन करूँ?
रुद्ध कण्ठ का तिमिर रास
निर्गन्ध उपवन फास
किसे उज्जवल करूँ

सजल अजल अश्रु धार
विशाल समुन्द्र, अधीर समीर
प्रमाद भरा जीर्ण-क्षीण
तरणि पार कैसे लाऊँ ?

माँ! क्या रौशन करूँ?
वह रूप कहाँ से लाऊँ
फलक पर तुण्ड है
काले बादलों का झुण्ड

शिथिल सा शील पग
चरणों में कैसे लाऊँ
किसे बुलाऊँ
माँ! क्या रौशन करूँ?

LIGO

In what nobel gesture
you prize a catch
the invisible ripples of
colliding stars
down
on the curvature of space and time; as
you cross the space
between us, weak
of gravitational waves
interfering inside
four kilometer long arms, mirroring
the depth
of your presence -
'cosmic gravitational waves'
A long story rippled
inside the observatory
after hundred years gap

SWEET UNREST

Your sweet unrest -
the fluffy void
of the sweetest kind, above;
never fails me
in your temporal adieu, as
You were here only
a while ago
body and flesh
when fate
descanted me of your whereabouts

OUTCRY

Outcry of the
haunted soul
ditch a howl
into dark pitched nights -
tormented tombs reverberates

and

flits secretely
through the bower
of an eternal grave
twisting dark air -
felching and pelping

and

wriggling no more fear
or the fright
that hawked on me previously
I swallowed poison -
gurgling down the throat


and

with an unbeliever's eyes
ensnared long ago
storm the vortex
into an eternal light -
utter relief transcends

बयार

आसमां तर है
नफ़स-ए-सर्द में, कि
एक बयार सी चली है
मंद मंद भाव लिए हुए
ख़ुमारी ऐसी की
ना रंगों - रंध की चाहत है
ना किसी से शिकवा शिकायत
एक नब्ज़ रब्ध है
सहर होने तलक

P.S.-
नफ़स-ए-सर्द = cold breath
रब्ध = start
सहर = sunrise

COOL BREATH

whole sky is
breathing cold
breezing thoughtful soft
as moments hangover
the cursory sight
away from hues and heights
harbouring no ill to anybody
but a craving heart
till the daybreak

वक़्त

कल की ही बात थी
अब ये ज़माना कैसे गुज़र गया,
अभी अभी तो सुबह थी
अब पहर ये कैसे ढल गई

अजीब दास्तां है
रूहानी अल्फाज की,
दिल ए लब्ज के मयाने
हजार लहरों से उफनती है

दर्दे बयां क्या करू
सौ चुभन भेदे है ज़ीस्त को
कल ही तो मिले थे यहाँ
अब वक़्त ये कैसे  गुज़र गया

A POTION OF LOVE

All fraility

Old age avow

Until the Communion

Charts our way

to divinity

Where no death lure away life

No life mete its end;

All sledge along

The time and space

An elixir

A potion of love

BLOOM

How you orb a blue

Around a smiling rose 

Enveloping slender thoughts 

Fluffy and delicate

Piping lovely dreams awake

How you orchestrate

The buzz of bees

Doing a swing in the air

Fluttering and flanking

The moorland on a high

How you guard 

The light of my day

As darkness sulk

Inside deeper umbra

Willowing a bloom to my heart

FULL MOON AJAR

I found myself, bodily

caged

into

a transparent jar

scripted

in cloud of smokes

and it's weightlessness

Rendering my thoughts

above

in full moon, ajar

KIRDAR

Kahani ke kirdaro me

yah kaisa man 

lag gaya,

harek panne se

ek jindagi 

bahne lagi hai

Malum na Tha

Sabdon ke tarkik bhaw bhi

Yahan

Apno ko samaye rahte hain

Hirday sthal ke 

Harek spandan ne

Unhe

Apne Dil ke karib 

Hilor karte paya hai

Kabhi lagta Hai

Panno ke baabat

Apne aap ko zild samet

Lapet lun

Yun hi Jiwan

Aasman aur jamin ke bich

Kahin khone lagi hai

SUBMISSION

See, how he tilts

his neck

towards the horizon

Must be a prayer

A twilight, folding

like a fetus

in total submission

LIBERATION

Of your course, that

Surround my space

I keep looking at you

with an unblinking eyes

The coming of your D- day

Liberating this form

From penury and pain

SEVEN TREADING OF MY DREAMS

Seven treadings

of my dreams

willingly kept

my heart awake

in adventure,

upturned green and glossy

Never was I blessed

but by the vision

of Earth from

the heights of the moon

in silver veins, and

multiple steps

giant of

dreams, after dreams

CHIRPLING

I took a smile

of the chirp, and

fluttered my hands

into the air

like a chirpling 

blinking my tiny eyes, through

a bright little morning

as bells tolls inside the temple, and

adhan from the mosque

for my wishes, synch

hymn to the church

ALLIANCE

All wakeful alliances

came floating 

into me,

and there

I was no more me, than

you into my heart

taking

all that was bridled 

the breath of my life

O MAA

O Maa

You are all celestial and divine

By many forms 

You lap me around, that

I have but one heart 

to pine you through

but never I shrink 

by my tears to 

Praise you in submission

that

Even my earthy form

never part me alone

Joining hands in grave

As eternal are thy loving faith

in life and death, and 

life again

O Maa!

OTHER FLICKER MORE

It was part of

some obscurity

winching

seven ropes of hell,

pulling darkness

one flicker death

other flicker more

Not all remains

into the life of a man

but to haul itself

in utter poverty and unfulfilled desire

planetary motion alive;

lonely man, as I came 

and lonely man I return

TINSEL LAND

When hearing of the earth, is

so distant for an ear

and, the heart is low of beat

One from the

far land, above

prove its existence friendly,

pitching me into its dark 

crater to the moon

away from the land;

gravitating a pull

towards a lighter vein

a supper to an end;

where no noise, now

does an ugly means, where

no humans mention

their tamed desire;

away, I bid adieu

roving, utility of the fore

headless of my past

away from the tinsel land

Open the door

Open ye You

The door of eternity

From where I plunge

My deep reverence

Neither I hoard

Nor I give up

My lasting resilience

OBITUARY

Those

deep silence

of a painful heart

a son, teenage

just was lying on the hospital bed, yesterday

at Safdarjung hospital, Delhi

is now

telling a tale

yester-years 

lungs infected, body crippled, squinting eyes, stunted growth, dementia

How long can he bear it

the progress of sciences

but to dupe it

and

meet his true life, above 

deep condolences my friend

in this our of eternal grief

GOLDSMITH

Golden light shining

over trees, mountains

the earth all over;

what worth are wordsmith

when You come 

by your golden thread, weaving

the works like a Goldsmith

HEART TO HEART

Who comes

in this wakeful night

with a longer feet

bigger of skies

and

aquaint me of its familiarity

in cosmic years 

spent in togetherness

beating heart to heart

the one, and all

in galactic splendour

FLOWER VASE

What is this luster

that surround you around

outside your little flower vase

if it is not my blooming

of my eyes, then

what else could it be

DENOUEMENT OF AN EARTHY ACT

Calm of musing

you lyre the gate of heaven

grouped with friars and fairies

Gods and angels

All eyes plume

seven steps to heavenly dance

seasoned peacock 

denouement of an act

I disavow my plat

Earthy of all my deeds

and, ilk my fraternity

on a higher abode

RESTING PLACE

Quizzically
I see the denouement,
the wilting act
of turgid life
roping in air
from all my past deeds
some good, some myths
distended
into surplus space
swollen, like a mound
on a piece of green sod
the upper crust of the earth
and
then
get to know
the play;
giving a resting place
onus on mankind

PILLOW OF MY BREAST, O MOTHER!

You have always, reminded me
of your loving care
in my wee days of helplessness
peeing on your stomach
banging my legs out of the bathtub
swelling my time, late
potty on your legs
ruby cheeks smiling
pampering my heart out;
indulgent
all baby oil messages
baby powder hand to hand
cooing, and cosseting
cuddle in your arms, flailing
my two little hands towards windmills
the hairs of your braid
the tussle of a loving kind

How will I reverse back
my days
onto you my loving mother
as you grow feable and weak
day by day

when out
I will go off by my growing time
getting to take your love back, my mother
and will never pee, potty and prod you
like that, again
my loving mother

what respite you gain
feable and invalid
lying your head pillow-soft

Mother,
take my breast as your pillow
the eyes as my heart
and prove me as your worthy son;
as I swallow a big lump
utterly, unuttered
silent of my wilful dreams, that
you will not leave me alone

don't you care me now, mother.
How will I do, as you did on to me
in your womb and out

mother,
why don't you speak, now.

LAZY MIND SLEEPS

You come inside
your room, squared by four walls
after a days work, and
switch on the light and fan
putting the shirt and trouser on the hanger
shoes and shocks in a little corner
lazy mind rest
asleep

is this, how
life goes on
breathing inside the cage;
the last let-up
baring it all

HIGHER DREAMS

Two of my bodily eyes
half closed, squint
four eyes of a dream
dappled by shadowy images
on a higher path, a nebulous glow
hazy of perception

A little outward
I peep my head in excitement
from the burrow of my
hollow and dark cell
to see the marvel of outer space
blinking in perfect unison

there
I could see
twinkling stars
as party to a wedding
Wafting clouds, cloaking
bridal moon in a silver gown

swift of reality
I play truce with imagery
why
by my two bodily eyes
it upended
many of my higher dreams

MARINATED

 

You come engrossed

ignorant of my thoughts

in moment of deep deluge

to naught; as I 

attend my vesper

shivering my bones out

Here, my Lord

I chant thy name, unknown;

broken of breath

as heavy time, cudgel

remains of my ashes

marinated

earth, water, air, fire and sky

LAP OF WARMTH

I was not less aware

of your abounding love

cheerful on the branches

of a tree 

like a leaf,

taking all hands 

azure to the skies

Until

affection, came;

after falling down the earth -

into the lap of wamth

COSMIC SURGE

When it swirls

galaxies into my thoughts

From nowhere, erupts

an unbridled freedom

to grip you

in my cosmic surge

O Mother!

in felicity of your 

boundless love

how can i 

repay my dept 

pearl to my tears

i have seen you

cradle, a string

to my breath 

how can i swaddle 

in your universal faith

in ignorance 

i forget my daily chant

how will i get to know you

if for a minute, i can

rip my unbecoming

I have seen you

playing hide and seek

to my ego

what else i have, but

to prosrate at your lotus feet

O Mother!