वो एक खुली खिड़की
खिड़की वो एक खुली खिड़की,मेरे बचपन वाले घर की,आते जाते हर रहगिर की करती थी नुक्ताचीनी ! इतनी सी थी, दो तारों केबीच के फासले जितनी,जिससे होकर कूद आतीमेरे कमरे…
Absence: an Elegy
It’s not merely an elegy but the effluvium coming out of the abyssal of her absence… the poison which took her away and the colours she has left behind her… …
Thou Hast My Rose : A Roseate Sonnet
THOU HAST MY ROSE There lived a little sparrowHopping on my lawn,On my windowsill, she satUntil dusk from dawn! Heretofore she sang, then weptAll agog was me,Songs of anguish, what…
Zindagi, Buland Tu: Gazal/Nazm
हैं मजलिसें तमाम फिर भी, रौनकें जाती नहींये ज़िन्दगी की उलझने हैं, मौत सुलझाती नहीं इतनी सी ख़्वाहिश है कि , जी लूँ मैं दमभर इसेपर ख़ौफ़ के साए में,…
चलो, एक दिया जलाएं…
रूठा है चाँद, आज क्यों ना उसको मनाएँकाफ़ी नहीं तारे, चलो एक दीया जलाएँ ‘मेहमां हो घड़ी भर के, ऐ घनघोर अंधेरों’सबक ये अमावस को क्यों ना आज सिखाएँ…
दिन कागज़, रातें स्याही…
Din kaagaz, raatein syahi: A Hindi poem which portrays the dreams of a night rambler who is euphoric towards nature and nostalgic about good old memories…. memories, sweet and sour….a…
Ravan on Kerala Kasavu Mundu…
He cried like a hundred children when born. His sage father took his wails as signs of prominence and thought he would add to his glory. Hence, the ferocious crier…
Haiku On Haiku
“Can you haiku?”, Yes, you can. If you have an effusive heart which feels others’ pain, beholds the beauty around and discern the Almighty within, you can haiku. Whatever is…
We Are Back, Because Symphony Never Fades…
Swiftly, I was flowing as waterCapricious in cadence in air,And you thought, I’m gone?Won’t I come back again? How have you forgottenRiver reunites to mountainsRiding on the chariots of clouds,Parched…
सावन और संगीत: ऋतुरंग कविता
सावन की प्रथम फुहारों संगजब गूँजी फिर स्वर-लहरीघन के उदात्त परों में छिपहुई मय सी स्याह दुपहरी श्रावण ऋतु भयी ऐसी बैरनमैं * गाऊँ कैसे कजरी ?आँखों में घन…
Cha-No-Yu and You: My Cup of Tales
I toasted my hi-tea and youfor mere two days, a night, or two? I don’t remember reallyas I forgot the real me, then only. Sinking under your veneered opal aura,Stealing from…
Mukammal Dastan…Nazm
“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose“…? “A rose by any other name would smell as sweeter”…The laureate writers, Stein and Shakespeare meant the same… …
Black-hole and You: Haiku
Poems turned in prose I lost my gleaming aura Sunken in black-hole ! Even if it hits you, you feel no pain.Rather you flow with its rhythm…And the world thinks…
The Sun Never Faded, but Glistened Through the Moon: My Father…
Dad’s lil’ girl forgot her smile and lost her eyes twinkle,Her lustrous locks cloistered, her lucent visage wrinkled,The hapless soul missed ever her knight-in-shining-armour,Her melodies were lost amidst cacophony and…
Never Say Die, Neither Goodbye, IndiBlogger!
Sometimes you need to look back to know how far you have come… Down the memory lane…in September 2014…I picked up my pen again after years to shape my daughter’s…
Main Tujhe Fir Milungi…
टूटे सपने मेरे, तेरे नभ में झिलमिलते हैं,गीतों में ना मिल सकें, चलो किस्सों में मिलते हैं … “If we couldn’t create the verses of yearnings, let’s begin the tales…
Pain: Haiku, Senryu
Rustling fallen leavesAutumn whispers dulcet songs I simper in pain! The beauty of Autumn lies in its reciting the forlorn tales of the END… The symphony of rustling leaves tells the…
Rang to tere hain Kanha…
नैनों की सजाई पाती कोरी अश्रु मोतियों संग झीनी चूनर थी, रंग डाली तन फिर भी बेरंग | निष्पाप गुलाबी काया मेरी जल भई रंग जैतूनी, भर-भर कर जल बरसे…
Naam Mera Jal Ki Dhara…
I am no achiever. I don’t fit in the paradigm of thriving, buoyant women achievers we all are proud of. I too, am proud of them though not one. But,…