Thursday, January 25, 2018

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

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

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