Thursday, January 25, 2018

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