Sher To Ghazal

Arz Kiya Hai..........

Panon se nikal kar lafz mere,
Sajey honton pe tere.

Nikharay sur-se-tere , saaz pe
Rang-e-mehfil jhoomay. 

- Yours Truly

Arz Kiya Hai

Badey dino bad , shayari ka mood aya hai
is mausam mein humney pharmaya hai .......


Pemane mein kya hai , chalak jata hai ,
Nashe mein insaan behek jaata hai

Hum woh nahi jo , bhulakey jiye , 
Hum woh hain jo rulaney waley ko tadpake jiye

Where Author Derives Poetry of Her Quote

Naap taul ke jiye zindagi ,
Kamay samajik maan
Bin pehchaan, usi bheed mein gum ,
aam aadmi, sahma  nadaan

- Yours truly


PS0: Oh ya , the quote
"The biggest risk of my life is , i played it very safe"

PS1: Oh ya , the dedication
To those who dared , ...in negation

Broken Mirror

Tute kanch si , bikharoon har raat
Dhimey se sulgay, koi ehsaas
Ret si phisaloon , simtey mein aag
Subha samet sub, phir nikaloon mein app
 
Tutey kaach si bikharoon har raat ....

 -Yours Truly 


PS: I like it :D

Lost Words

Where author dedicates and narrates death of a writer .
And draws wordy inspiration (or continuation ?) from  her own  previous write up .

Ab khaan log pochatey hain,
Ki tum  likhatey kyun nahi.
Kisi ke poochey likhoon ,
Mein esa bhi to nahi .

"Kuch to log kahenge",
Kabi, kisi shayar ne kaha tha,
Aur kisi ne kaha,
"Naam gum jayega", kabhi.

Kya chodoon , jo rahey mere baad,
Aur kya le jaoon apney saath.
Kya geet banaigey kisi awaaz ki pehchan,
Ya reh jaengey gumnaam , woh alfaaz.

Ab khaan log pochatey hain ,
Ki tum kuch  likhatey kyun nahi.


In Devanagari for better transliteration:-


अब कहाँ लोग पूछते हैं,
की तुम लिखते क्यूँ नहीं
किसीके पूछे लिखूं ,
में एसा भी तो नहीं

"कुछ तो लोग खहैनगे",
कभी ,किसी शायर ने कहा था 
और किसी ने कहा
"नाम गुम जायेगा " , कभी

क्या छोडूं , जो रहे मेरे बाद ,
और क्या लेजाऊँ अपने साथ
क्या गीत बनेगें किसी आवाज़ की पहचान ,
या  रह जाएंगे गुमनाम ,वोह अल्फाज़

अब कहाँ लोग पूछते हैं,
की तुम कुछ लिखते क्यूँ नहीं

In Happiness

अर्ज़ किया है............

बवंडर में तिनके को
सहारा सा मिला


आज  बीच समुन्दर की  लेहरों को
किनारा सा मिला 

ढून्डून तेरी आँखों  में जो परछाई
आईना देख , खुद  कि नज़रों से
इशारा सा मिला 

-Yours truly

PS1: These are not state , these are eureka creations  , do not judge .
PS2 :Appreciation will be appreciated :)

In sadness

Arz kiya hai..............

Zamane se rootha, ghar ko jaye.
Jo khudh se rootha ,
woh kahan muh chupaye.

-Yours truly 

Who Should Call

भूले से भी ना  बुलाय वो,
और बोले ,भुला दिया मेने?

- Yours Truly 

And when you call they say -"you never call?"

PS1: Strange , but not looking forward for Holi
PS2: All men should try waxing atleast once !
PS3: Also threading
PS4: Summer reminds me of college days
PS5: Chatted with a complete stranger on  http://omegle.com and ended up discussing cloud computing , hai ri kismat  !
PS6: As i always recommend , can read the sher again .

Turning Point

Us mod se har koi guzarta hai
Koi sambhal ke girta hai
Koi gir gir ke sambhalta hai
Par us mod se har koi guzarta hai

  -Yours truly
 
Author's confession :-
I can't read poetry  !
It takes a lot of patience for me to  ideally read anything , but poetry  requires yet another level of that "patience" .One still tries and is very selective .
It's good in a way , coz if i would have read a lot , a lot would have quietly  seeped into my creations.
Not that , that kind of seepage doesn't  happen now. But in a knowingly unknown way with minute  contamination.
But as long as there are finite words and an even more finite vocabulary of mine  , the words will repeat them self's , but in every fold with a new meaning , with a new  emotion , with new inspiration , with a new conclusion .
From a new beginning to a new destination .They will travel and continue to flow whether they get absorbed or not ,they will continue to flow in this infinite space.

Because now i know , it doesn't take a dictionary to be poetic.

PS0: hmmmm
PS1: Ok,
PS2: hmmmmm , well
PS3 Fine , the end!! 
PS4: Ya, read the sher again , for a new meaning  and it might enlighten in every re-read :)

Kuch Likhatey Kyun Nahi

Kaagaz ki bani ,kalam gaddar

Syahi na jaye panno ke par
Aur log pochatey hain , 

Ki tum likhtey kyun nahi  

Bekhudi se nikal 
Ayi mein hoshwaloan ki kagar
Sukhe asu, jhootey armaan  
Na koi arzoo, na koi intezar
Aur log poochatey hain,
Ki tum likhatey kyun nahi 

Roothi nazamien ,naraz hain alfaz 
Kaise bunu mein, abb lafzo ke  jal  
Aur log poochatey hain , ki tum .......kuch likhatey kyun nahi?

                                                                               

-Yours sincerely , Clueless


PS: While i thought i was over poetry and can no longer compose , this(above) happened .

Pehle App . Pehle App

Jiju quoted some nice shers during random tea talks .
This was picked  from World Space .

Humse aaya na gaya, 
Unse bulaya na gaya,
Faasla phir dosti aur pyar ka,
Dono se mitaya na gaya.

How ego comes between relationships, often , quite often. It just takes a word or two to bridge the gap , but the question is always,  who shall start ?
pehle app . pehle app .

PS1: I don't know who the author is , not Galib for sure.

From loneliness to lost self

Dedicated to a dozen of friends who are getting married or have recently tied the knot.

Arz kiya hai

Dostana , Yarana bahut hua

Zindagi ab  humsafar dhoonde.

Mein , mera bahut hua

Ab , tu , tera , tujhe dhoonde.

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After 

Yaroan se miley zmana hua

Zindagi ab phoorsat dhoonde.

Ab tu , tera  bahut hua

mann mein , mera , mujhe dhoonde.

-Yours truly, clueless

Arz kiya hai

 Ek  shayar ko kya chahiye
kaagaz kalam , syahi
mehfil-e-aam
phorsat-ki- shaam
aur thodi si waah wahi

Ek shayar ko aur kya chahiye

-Yours Truly

Sweet Pain

Ajj phir arzz kiya hai..............


दर्द में नशा है
अजब सा जुनूं
एक अलग हे मज़ा है
बनादे इन्तेहाँ , सुकूं
एक ऐसी सज़ा है

-clueless



ps1: Author wants to write a book or at least wants to persist these shers , poems as hard copy.
ps2:Yeah kind of published one.Aware am i , nobody will buy nor will it be read , but at least a copy for self.Sigh.
ps3: No , i don't know how to go about it.
ps4:Any hows. Travel has taken time , so will travelogue.
ps5: Waiting for SLR pics.

Only Words And Words Are All I Have

Where author pays tribute to the unsung Shayaras –(Women sher-o- shayari writers) of the past and explores technicality of Urdu poetry .

Teri nazm ,
Kisi kaagaz pe likhey lafzon mein ko gayi .

Teri Ghazal ,
Kisi badnaam mehfil ki ronak ho gayi.

Teri awaz ,
Ajj bhee veerano mein goonjati hai.

E shayara , teri rooh
Kisi jane shayar ki Ilhaam ho gayi.

--Clueless (I am proud of this one)

So unknown and lost they are that when I Wikipediad Shayara , the result was:
Did you mean: Shayar ?
This time Google also turned out to be chauvinist. Nope there isn’t’ much on web .
Amongst the Amir Khusros , Mirza Ghalibs , Mehedi Hassans ….. some names like Begum Akhtar, Farida khanum where linked majorly for their ghazal gayaki.I still remember a filling scene in a movie In custody 1993 , where Shabana Azmi is lamentable about her creations not being recognized , while the whole movie revolves around an ageing poet Nur Shahjehanabadi’s work preservation.
They very much existed .Apart from usual , every kothas originally meant for musical -mystic entertainment were also home for such phankars. Female artists including tavayafs were shayari composers .But with their name their voice , creations went confounded and lost.

One truly admires any poet’s work irrespective of the gender behind and nor am i a feminist. But something did provoke me. Even today people don’t take a female poet seriously .That whole kashish in reciting is much appreciated when coming from a man’s mouth . Is it just that people are not used to? Or people just don’t want to ?.

One of the reasons for rareness of Shayars apart from unrecognizable condition of women in Islam and in history, in general , on some digging down actually comes out from what ghazal is or was traditionally about.
Apparently , ghazal not only has a specific form, but traditionally deals with just one subject: Love. And not any kind of love, but specifically, an illicit and unattainable love hence is always written from the point of view of the unrequited lover. Since we all have grown with Devdas(s) continuum on broken heart saga, shayari suited more on them. As if there were no Meerabai(s)? yeah but all that dwelled bhazan’s. Sigh !
That is one of the theories though .
Able to compose a sher or poetry is an instinctive creative prowess, which is nurtured in a person irrespective of prejudice.
However things haven’t changed much .Name one famous female equivalence of Galib or even a budding writer?Yes , they existed and are still blooming in shadows. The art itself dying in this fast paced hip-hop world is another story altogether though.

Urdu poetry is not all about just rhyming words.
Sher is (Couplet). It consists of two lines (misra); first line is called 'misra-e-oola' and the second is called 'misra-e-sani’.
Ghazal is a collection of shers ( Ashaar).
Nazm is an Urdu poetic form that is normally written in rhymed verse.
More gyaan explained by Jagit singh here.

PS1: After a long time , have composed Ashaar .
PS2: Btw, we have moved up in life. Got 2 cots coz of rt g .It feels good to sit on elevated surfaces.
PS2:Hmmmmm, The end.

Aaj phir se arzz kiya hai

It has been long, since I wrote a nazm and this thought itself germ’s

कुछ अर्ज़ किये हुए काफी दिन होगये
एक लम्बे इंतज़ार में
तन्हाई की भीड़भाड़ में
लगता है मेरे अहसास सो गए

While the post was to contain just below sher .It was made on the fly and dedicated to a friend during one of the farewell feasts.

तेरे जाने पे,
तेरे आने की आस रहेगी
तू दूर रहे या पास
हमेशा ख़ास रहेगी

Waah , Waah !

And.........

PS0: I have been trying my best to stay untouched.
PS1: But Bangalore is treating me badly.
PS2: One after the other , life is unfolding it’s brutal surprises on me. One after the other .
PS3: The ground below is shaky and my own self confidence is trembling.
PS4:I hope I fight , I hope to survive.

one arrow , two lines , three hurt

अर्ज़ किया है....

एक तीर से तीन घायल....
एक तीर से तीन घायल,
हम उसपे , वो किसी और पे कायल

वाह वाह !

PS: Title contributed by TeofKap.
PS1:Three movies watched in a week , all in theatre !
The Last Lear *** & 1/2(PVR)
WALL.E *** (Imax)
Rock on ** & ½ (Adlabs)
PS2: The ratings works for theatre as well, sheer coincidence.

A eureka arzz.. from Jugalbandi

No , this is surely not going in any PS statement .This truly deserved a post .
Read slowly , in shayrana andaaz to get the real essence .
In the original script ,
Arz kiya hai…………

जितनी ख्वाइश थी तुम्हे पाने की
उतनीही कोशिश की तुम्हे भुलाने की
गर किस्मत भी करे शाजिश , दोबारा हमे मिलाने की
हम फिर ना करेंगे भूल, तुम्हे चाहने की .......

हम फिर ना करेंगे भूल तुम्हे चाहने की

Ouch, its touchy .
And for the non-Hindi Devanagri junta.

Jitanee khwaish thi tumhey pane ki
Utanihi koshish ke tumhey bhulaney ki
Gar kismat bhee kare shajish , dobara humey milane ki
Phir na karaingey hum bhool ,tumhey chahney ki.....
Phir na karaingey hum bhool , tumhey chahney ki.

Though the first line is from a share ….came for review from Sh-pi. I want to thank her for the jugalbandi initiation and the kick –off word/line .Sh-pi , do add this to the previously suggested ones .
The first two lines were contouring through my viens(the second line was a crack). Many options were developed for the third line (few really harsh ones,
; not published ), But the moment fourth one was Hacked /cracked , Eureka !.
I jumped out of the bed at midnight and jolted it down on the nearest papyrus (foodworld bill) .Before it was forgotten in any thrill .

PS:For the convenience of our readers we have changed the blog template. The scrolling pain has been reduced for the long posts. Hence, If anybody has missed out on them coz of their length , can visit again.
PS1:Have I already recommended “what happens in Vegas” ?Ultimately hilarious flick.
PS2: Has anybody read “Lilacs bloom in my backyard”? How is it?

Yet another shortest post

Arz kiya hai.............

में चली जाऊं , किसी का दिल न टूटे ,
मेरी वहां डोली उठे , यहाँ कोई आशिक न रूठे ,
समझा करो ............
किसीके चाहने वालों की कतार में हम भी हैं ,
किसी बेदर्द के इंतजार में हम भी हैं.

Inspired by and dedicated to 60 % of the Indian girls (may be a fallacy).

Any Extension points to this plugin?...S3 u said to draft the poem , i did ...kindly do further implementation...please note u r adviced to use the same context and just override the existing methods :D .

PS0:This is wat happens when u blog while coding.
PS1: Well ,well author actually wanted to blog on her Darjeeling_Gangtok_Butan (-NorthEast Trip).
PS2:But that will take time.
PS3: Yet another post with least number of PS , yipeee.

1 of those 6.

Google Transliteration rocks!
Google Transliteration sucks at times. It’s impossible to get chotee ee ki matra in that and the result follows. Half of the urdu/Hindi words(especially with half letters,matraas and other such complication) might tend to mean something else. Hence it’s highly recommended to use your language optimization and Hindi grammar correction skills before reading the content below below.

Microsoft Outlook spell check rocks!
Blogspot spell check sucks!( client/customer side testing !, nobody can test /use it more or better)
Blogspot Language converter ...........! (Read dash) haven’t used so no idea.

So the tools I have used to come with this post are :-
MS Outlook mail , Google Transliteration, to some extent MSword.Well the blogspot editor was just used to assemble various content from above places.Damn! I need some outsourcing to be done here.

Arz kiya hai...........


कीस दौड़ में खोए हैं हम
कीस दौर की है ये ज़ंग
की शीकस्त पीछे रह गई
और पता ही न चला
इतने आगे नीकल गए हैं हम


जिंदगी आज मैं है , आज मैं जीले
कल कीसने देखा है
पलों को हंसी के धागे में पीरोले
कल कीसने देखा है
मेटा दे सारे शीकवे गीले
कल कीसने देखा है
तोड वो सारे बन्धन जों हें सीलें
कल कीसने देखा है


अपने अकेलेपन का ख़ुद हे साथी हूँ
मुसफीर हूँ , जों राह मीले, उसीपे चल पड़ता हूँ
मंजीलों के आगे जों शीतीज है
उसी सफर का में रही हूँ

कुछ देर तक हमें वेहम में जीने दो
हमें बस! यूंही पीने दो
होश वालों की हकीक़त ईतनी कड़वी हे
की कुछ देर तक और मदहोशी मैं रहनें दो


Blogspot Language converter sucks !( & is buggy have just used it for editing).

The diary is empty now.Except for one song whose lyrics are ok types (can be ignored as it was composed back then when i was in 12th ,but the tune and the song rocks :)

Ps0: it rained again, yipeee
Ps1: Got drenched again, yippee
Ps2: Holi was good but dry :( , this time successfully smashed an egg, yipeee
Ps3: No, no post on Holi , those people are already honored in my previous post :D
Ps4: 6 days, 6 posts = Boss on leave for 6 days , yipeee
Ps5: 3 days already gone :(
Ps6: But 3 days are still left, yipeee
Ps7: My hands/wrist have given up, The RSI is back due to the usage of desktop and laptop in that highly ergonomically against micro mini cubicle
Ps8: Hence only 1 post in 6 days.
Ps9: For the first time I have written a post without deciding the heading.
Ps10: Cool... got it now, yipeeeee.
Ps11:The End