Story & Poetry

چند اپنی سرحد کی حدود سے باہر اور چند اپنے گھر کے آس پاس کی خبروں نے میرے دل میں آگ سی لگائی۔ یہ آج صب�.....

دل کی دنیا کو بسانے چل پڑا دل مدّتوں کے بعد پھر ضد پہ اڑا دل   حسن ، آنکھیں ، زلف اور لب کے مخالف ع.....

سر کٹواکر خوں میں لت پت سر لایا ہوں سونے دو  مقتل سے میں چلتے چلتے گھر آیا ہوں سونے دو   طوفاں د.....

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 .....

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

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 .....

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

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 .....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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

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 .....

1. Cage: How they've locked a soulInside a cage so smallNights as pit black as coalThe only friend, a wall Inside a cage so smallIt's even hard to breatheThe only friend, a wallB.....

How they've locked a soulInside a cage so smallNights as pit black as coalThe only friend, a wall   Inside a cage so smallIt's even hard to breatheThe only friend, a wallBon.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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

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

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 .....

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&.....

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 .....

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.....

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.   .....

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 .....

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 .....

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

"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 .....

Seasons changed,people grew older but the land remained untouchable.Blotched with imprints of innocent lives within the granules of the ever giving soulful soil,it was bountiful in.....

Gloomy crimson balls of cotton scattered all over the sky tell a tale of sorrow and valour. Nabbe Motte fixing his jajeer, sings – “Wallah mien wadaan gaash soutuy&he.....