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jab tujhe
ek nazar dekha tha
i remembered
those first showers
when i
caught a glimpse of you
Theme: Love, Passion, and Longing (121)
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woh murakhta woh ghamaDpan
jis mein hum ne sadi ganwaayi
you turned out just like us, brother
where were you hiding all this while?
that stupidity, that stubbornness
in which we wasted decades
Theme: Home, Country, & Belonging (32)
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3 / 25 : Featured
ek ishaara hi
kaafi hai
we are those wise ones
for whom
just one gesture
is enough
Anonymous
sign, signal, gesture
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4 / 25 : Featured
aye khuda bas ek din
aaine ko zubaan de de
she accuses me of
falsely praising her beauty
o god, if only you could give
the mirrors a voice for a day
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5 / 25 : Featured
mashuqa ke liye seekhi urdu
urdu mashuqa ho gayi hai
what was our love
and what has it now become?
i learned urdu for my beloved
urdu has now become my beloved
Theme: Voice, Expression, & Language (82)
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6 / 25 : Featured
ke naadaani hai
behtar aagahi se
i have learnt
this much from life
that ignorance is
better than awareness
Anonymous
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7 / 25 : Featured
ye saala bhi
hatheela ho gaya hai
what to do
the heart seeks only that
this fellow too
has become so stubborn
Theme: Love, Passion, and Longing (121)
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8 / 25 : Featured
aye jahaan sun le abhi
mera bayaan baaqi hai
don't place faith
in his testimony
for my statement
is yet to be heard
Theme: Voice, Expression, & Language (82)
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9 / 25 : Featured
sar itna mat jhukaao ki
dastaar gir pade
what harm is there
in bowing respectfully, but
don’t bend so much
that your hat falls off
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10 / 25 : Featured
jab se dekhi ‘nazir’
dil ki kitaab
the meaning of all books
became evident
when i read, ‘nazir’,
the volume of my heart
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11 / 25 : Featured
khayaabaan khayaabaan iram
dekhte hain
wherever i see
the prints of your footsteps
i see in that garden
the garden of paradise
world, universe
impression, mark, imprint
step
to see
flower bed, garden
paradise, garden of paradise
Theme: Love, Passion, and Longing (121)
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12 / 25 : Featured
tab main ne apne dil mein
laakhon khayaal baandhe
when my beloved raised her arms
to gather up her tresses (hair)
i tied up a million desires
in my heart
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13 / 25 : Featured
ab sukh ke sapne kya dekhen
jab dukh ka sooraj sar par ho
those nights have gone with the moon
those words have gone with the moon
how can i now see dreams of happiness
with the searing sun of sorrow on my head
Theme: Loneliness, Separation, & Grief (122)
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14 / 25 : Featured
dil laga kar hum to
pachhtaaye bahut
many wounds i bore,
many scars did i sustain
getting my heart entangled
i regretted a lot
Theme: Heart, Mind, & Memory (66)
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15 / 25 : Featured
raag raag mein daudthi phirthi hai
nashtar liye hue
what can i say about
where love is and where it isn’t
it courses through every vein,
daggers drawn
1959: Sahitya Akademi
Theme: Love, Passion, and Longing (121)
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16 / 25 : Featured
gar jeet gaye to kya kehna
haaray bhi to baazi maat nahi
if the gamble is of love
bet what you want, why fear
if you win, nothing like it
even if you lose, it is not a loss
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17 / 25 : Featured
kah diya us ne ki
phir hum kya karen
after listening to my entire
story of sorrow and despair
she said
well, what can i do?
Theme: Miscellany (44)
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18 / 25 : Featured
raat ke pichle pehar
roz jagati hai hamen
your memory, sometimes as a knock
and sometimes as a whisper
wakes me up
in the wee hour, every night
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19 / 25 : Featured
Tal jaayega ye apni balaa
tujh pe Daal kar
in love, don’t mistake your
heart to be your friend, ‘zauq’
it will dump its troubles
on you and flee
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ek chaand baghal mein ho
ek chaand muqaabil ho
o heart, let me savor
the bliss of the moonlit moment
a moon with me
and another in front
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jo zinda hun to phir
zinda nazar aana zaroori hai
if principles are under attack
it is necessary to fight back
if i am alive
i must act so
Theme: Time, Life & Learning (133)
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juun hi darvaaza khola hai
us ki khushbu aayi hai
after many days
i came to my room
just as i opened the door
fragrance of my beloved came out
Theme: Loneliness, Separation, & Grief (122)
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asir hone ki
aazaad aarzoo karte
should they see the world of
shackles of your tresses
even free men would
desire to be held hostage
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kitni aahista
aur kitni tez
watch
the pace of revolution, firaq
how deliberate
and, yet, how swift
Theme: Oppression, Rebellion, & Freedom (63)
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mujh se mere gunaah ka hisaab
aye khuda, na maang
the painful scars of unmet desires
keep coming to my mind
don't from me also ask, oh god,
an account of my sins
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