नक्शे माज़ी

वो जब मिले थे  ख्वाबों में
नक्शे माज़ी कि तरह
अब सहर के उजाले  में
यह दाग दाग सा फिर  क्यूँ  है 

एक आरजू  थी फलक  पर 
चाँद सितारों  कि तरह
कौन शुबकता है अब यहाँ 
उनवान, ठहर ठहर

बहुत करीन था मौज-ए-हसरत
सफिना-ए-गम-ए-दिल लिए हुये
उनकी रुख्सती को  ढूँढती है

ये आंखे आंसू  हजार लिए

HINGED

It is here, that 

I find me stranded 

On this lonely island

Amongst these 

Silent languages of this Earth -

Deaf and dull;

Hinged by my body weight

Otherwise

I was weightless 

Amongst those stars

Whirling my galaxies, around

DETOXIFICATION

Healing came, naught

from the wordly voices

of the world

But 

From the solitude

of the vast inside:

Detoxification -

Silencing the language within me

FANNING LOVE

In a greater scale 

of cold winter, when

ceiling fan does not move

A dead end, stands

like a burning shadow 

The heat of which 

flare through my warm heart.

How choosy are 

the season's take

Those bereft, affront

and

take their chance

in full noon 

fanning summer love 

with full speed

AN ETERNAL WHIM

From nowhere it comes, and

to nowhere it goes

What crush you lever upon me 

that

When I find myself down

you pressure me up -

The only authority

to dawn a dusk, and vise-versa

Playful in your abilities

to pivot me

towards subjugation 

to your eternal whim 

IT SETTLED DOWN

It settled down 

in all proportion

towards its base

No new words formed, and 

No new sentences

All was silent

in eternal transparency 

Mirroring me to you, and

You to me

DEEPER NIGHTS

My fraility

bore on me 

till it timed me

for its salty tears 

All cold night 

I was burning, and

Burning was the whole

I never knew 

How deeply it infringed on me

Equivocally -

As my eyes, started

Counting stars into the deeper nights

LIGHT AND HAPPINESS

Lofty apparition 

of your crown

added mountains

to my dream

And

A golden dawn, submerged

into my being

Holding earth 

by light and happiness

TRAILING TRANQUILITY

The invisibility, was

bound up

in his cosy chair

How he rolled up

his happiness

rocking his age

east to west, feeling

to say nothing about

his past

But

to live full

his worn-out days

in contentment and jest

towards his fulfilling life

trailing tranquility

to his post generation

FAITH AND LOVINGNESS

You take a breath

warm of deep thoughts

searching your own within 

I look askance

at your sagging skin 

holding my breath, tight

towards your age -

We're you not 

the one, that

used to

take me by my hands

in the past as your child

and 

lovingly would envelope me

by your warmth 

soothing my heart and mind

What pales you now

to search your within

Were I not the one -

You remember;

The one that still guard you age

reciprocating my love to you, Mother!

Keep your faith 

by my skin and bones -

That

To you that I have transplanted 

in all faith and lovingness

MORE BY MY FLESH

For the things, that

I kept proving my self

He came whizzing like a hawk

And took me pieces by pieces

by its sharp taloons

on a sky ride -

I was seeing more of skies

by my flesh 

than what my eyes could

Accrue to my body

PETALED DAY, TO NOUGHT

It came petaled 

in a day, smiling

And

Wilted in the night 

Brighter it counts 

a day

According status -

It counts nought

in shivering nights 

Silhouette never wear

Moonless nights

ROMANCE

Morning chirp

Fledge baby heart mine -

What plesantaries exchange

Prizing my heart

With bounty of happiness 

All nature surrounds

Fresh air

Sway a dance on the trees -

What charm bequeath the will

All cemeteries come alive verdant

Keeping romance 

With the dead 

TO COURT MY WISHES

Silence settle, deep

on my burdened lips -

How it parch 

cracking cold 

in this howling nights

No new need arises

to utter my pain -

Nothing I gain 

of my blurry sight, but

a distance running blindly to nowhere

Smudging a space 

by my wingless flights 

I do my thoughts 

An accord with a dust 

To court my wishes 

Up in the skies

TRANQUIL LAND

Take me to the land

of other planets

Where the nights are longer 

than earthly nights

Where no Sun fan the days

Where the noises are seated deep, and

Silence reign free 

over the tranquil land

To that peace

Let me be a part

Away from the buzz 

Encircling my lot

VANISHING LINES

In the cut of 

deeper nights

Your imagery, play

Hide and seek

Trailing into 

My dream space -

I fear the vanishing lines

that will evaporate

As the dawn

Will ring the morning bell

KINSHIP

How could you, leave
Parting me away; when
by no-time
I have gained you
in my friendship
and
by eternal kinship
I can see by your eyes
the twinkling of stars
defeating Suns and Moons
Burning like a moth
towards your
ever cascading brightness

YOU TELL NOTHING

You tell nothing
about;
Yet I feel
Hushed inside
my deeper hearts -
Caged emotions
stitching together
the fabric
of your loving past
by my unruly tears
that
Once offshoot
shades of your tenderness

Now
When I see your sight
fading away
I feel; how
different hues
bled into one another -
the vacant gloaming of the skies
limned, the inner
working of the heart

and
You tell nothing
about.

आवाज़

उनके कहे पर

जब ज़िक्र होगी

मेरे वर्तमान की;

मेरी ग़ैरहाज़िरी

के ये सुलगते पल

तब भी फ़न उठाएगी

किस चाहत में

सर नवाज़ता हूँ मैं

बुलाता हूँ, अपने आप को

फिर भी

लोगों की पूकार

सुनाई देती है

रहने दो मुझे

इन ठहरे हुए पलों को

एक अन्ज़ान सी लिबास में;

न जाने किस ओर

हवा को निर्भीक बनाएगा

यह पल अनगिनत आवाज़ लिए

RIPPLE

A simple music, ripples
through the slender branches
of dense forest
As
a gale bear it upon the leaves
the dance
of its silent play -
sans any language

away
from the din of city voices -
A sensible wit, only can pass
into our ears
if we could listen
between its lines

RADIANT GHOST

Befriended a noble soul -
A radiant ghost
working my nights
repairing stone walls
of a broken cemetery
shrouded in silence

Humming long
the naked ruins;
I gossiped whole night
about the village square
about the streets
consuming my past reserves

Years of disintegration
Worked
better on me
Sailing untouched
the priest hymn, and
religion of the masses

Alone, I befriended
the ghosts
of my village
Rich with winged glowworms
All verdant
luminescent of cold bodies

ETERNAL WARMTH

An imagery of you, feed
me longer moments
of solitary passages
What hunger satiate, inside;
I just curve my lips
a bit, on you
to find my belongings, broken down
into pieces of my breath

I take chance
in our closeness, whence
you will come
to stitch
my broken heart, that
I have left unknowingly on my pass
inebriated
in your eternal warmth

सिरहन

गुम हुए आवाज़ पे
सिहर उठता हूँ
अब भी ग़मो की
मंद मुस्कान, जब
रोशन जदा होती है

हवाओं में सिसक सी
एक कस्ती सरकाता हूँ
आंसुओं की पतवार लिए ;
सिसकते बाजुओं में
ये प्यार कैसा

आप ही खेता हूँ
आप ही
पीड़ पतवार लिए
उनके सिलवटों पे
नाम का जोर लिए

फैलती हुई
अँधेरी रातों में
एक लाश टटोलता हूँ
काबिल हूँ मैं
एक जान ढूंढता हूँ

गुम हुए आवाज़ पे
सिहर उठता हूँ