"She was a maker of bounty biggest" Is what mom showed me Of women... From smile her chisel of self Carved love From a word of love Showed she me the making Of families and .....Read More

غزل     بہٕ چھُسنا کوٛنڑ مۓ نِش روز دوٗر ونیومے۔ مہٕ چھُس ناراہ ژے سپدی سوٗر ونیومے۔   یِم�.....Read More

After him, She's been sleeping Beside his grave- Singing the songs of eternity. I remember Those witty eyes tombed inside The dark eyelashes, Tearing in the harsh grief Of .....Read More

The Malodour of breeze is unfurling, Fire sings chronicles, I hear, Drenched soul of mine can't pray, Those Folklore tales caught fire, Western tapes are heard, Prayers don't .....Read More

O writer of destinies, let a life of peace be my fate, for my pages of existence lay disarrayed. Allah,let your wonders manifest, surcharge my heart with ardent zest.   .....Read More

I crescendoed my voice, loud and clear Waiting for the mountains to respond to and mimic the shrill in my voice. I run across the gravel road, wide enough for two people to strut.....Read More

The bulb is trembling, soon it will fall and shatter into fragments. The clock has refused to work, fearing the evil. The legs of our couch are making noise, since the cracks .....Read More

At what point exactly does History grayscale? As it undoes itself ( not the way my grandpa rolls out a yarn, thread by thread ) on reflective glass: leaf by leaf, drained of&.....Read More

Once upon a time, son,   They used to call it Paradise, Some even shouted "Heaven!”,   Was it the valley of honey,   turned into a valley of .....Read More

After this maddening ‘social distancing’  (that's already  earth-shattering enough) is over, we shall  clandestinely trade:  polka dots for sca.....Read More

بے سود کاوشوں کو روح پالتی گئ اثبات کی تو خیر محلت نفی گئی   وہ صبح،  وہ پیام،  وہ ترسیل، مرح.....Read More

Wailing again in the lap of heavens My abode is now turned into debris I had just turned into a traitor When I found my widowed land   My youth turned into feral wrinkles.....Read More

If your bleeding wounds are left to me, I should kiss them every time Until they heal all of you And bruise all of me, I would put them close to my heart forever, The blood sh.....Read More

You said your goodbyes, Old friend, And I went on my way, in a quest to discover the place where love flowed. I sought to find the rivers of anticipation that hushed down th.....Read More

Just when the world stopped to feel right a moment in time when nothing thrived but pain and horror held tight their grip and crushed dreams slashed bodies like knives. No ho.....Read More

Fire, dust, ash and soothave settled, at last,over the petals of red,I had planted for You,to adorn your comingBut, Love - war brews my land,Melting skins and identities to un.....Read More

Welcome to the fall The season of poets where every leaf turns to its final call to make blessings in disguise The Chinar loses its modesty The poets their hearts I won't be .....Read More

لٹے چمن میں خزاں کا موسم کوئی تمنا جگا رہا ہے  بحر وفا کی مچل رہی ہے فلک جو نغمے سنا رہا ہے   شج�.....Read More

I once passed by one of the monk lanes  Heard I a monk saying calm and slow  "Where do you go in those fetters, chains?" said he glancing at me, head to toe  I w.....Read More

How should I tell you everything That is sealed in the glued pages, The truth is-  Oh! I cannot say, The fallen leaves of my heart have died in melancholy and the fading.....Read More

پیمانے میں اب میرے وفا کون بھرے گا اے جانِ وفا تو ہی بتا کون بھرے گا   یہ بات عجب ہے کہ تجھے بھول س.....Read More

If I do not return, tell your heart not to lament, come and find me instead for I will be lying dead in the street (where I had given you a rose-perfumed envelope one brumal ev.....Read More

There's no tick-tick  Didn't you see the analog holding fast the wrist as if an explosion or what They say many explosive heads bash each other every night But cries are .....Read More

فضائے ہر دوعالم ہنس پڑے جب یار ہنستا ہے وگرنہ خشک ہونٹوں میں چبھا ہر خار ہنستا ہے   مری سرگوشیوں .....Read More

Ghazal What is this darkness? What laws do govern at night? Your silently slipping memories, into miseries turn, at night   Lovers, whose land lost its moon in the clouds .....Read More

وونی کأتیاہ غم ژٕہ پالکھ یِتہِ ونکھ نا تہٕ کأتیاہ صدمہٕ ژالکھ یِتہِ ونکھ نا   پھُلے باغچٕ سو واو.....Read More

My childhood wrecked -  The dreams and the bliss marred  They with their rusty guns Shot dead my beloved In the dead of night I neither shall forgive them Nor ever .....Read More