shershayariaayi

[shershayariaayi]

ye khwab hai khushbu hai ki jhonka hai ki pal hai

ye dhund hai baadal hai ki saya hai ki tum ho

ye umr-e-gurezan kahin thehre to ye jaanun

har sans mein mujh ko yahi lagta hai ki tum ho

Ahmad Faraz احمد فراز

[shershayariaayi]

Now, we change the topic whenever your name comes up // How eager we once were to speak of you, in the beginning.

- Ahmad Faraz

[shershayariaayi]

“Even now, there are flowers in the flowerbed, but none like my wound or like your lips.”

Ahmad faraz

[shershayariaayi]

zindagi se yahi gila hai mujhe tu bohot der se mila hai mujhe. humsafar chahiye, hujoom nahi ik musafir hi qaafilaa hai mujhe. tu mohabbat se koyi chaal toh chal haar jaane ka hausla hai mujhe.

[shershayariaayi]

"O turning of time, we are deeply grieved — There were some dreams that were never meant to shatter."

— Zakariya Shaz

[shershayariaayi]

Mahmoud Darwish - “Memory for Forgetfulness” 

[shershayariaayi]

"Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it.

To go wrong in your own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

[shershayariaayi]

It identifies to be perfect, which is not a strong characteristic of a human being

[shershayariaayi]

My eyes seem to be always searching your face in every room I enter. In every room I enter late, your eyes seem to be fixed at the door. Were you also hoping to see me?

I felt my heart beating in my fingertips. I purposefully brush my fingers against yours. You allow the unusual lingering of my touch against your skin. Were you giving the answer to me?

- z.t. (Excerpt from my diary)

taglist: @curseofaphrodite

[shershayariaayi]

Maine dekha tha un dino mien usse

Jab wo khiltay gulab jesa tha

Uski palkon se neend chanti thi

Us ka lehja sharab jesa tha

Us ki zulfoon se bheegti thi ghata

Us ka rukh mahtab jesa tha

Log parhtay thay khal o khad us ke

Wo adab ki kitab jesa tha

-Mohsin Naqvi

Should I post the full poem?

[shershayariaayi]

if i was made for everyone else and no one was made for me if i remake myself for myself what was i made to be

~nothing for nobody

[shershayariaayi]

ہزار بار ہوئی اُس سے گفتگو لیکن!

ہزار بار کوئی بات رہ گئی مُجھ سے...

Hazaar baar hui us se guftagu lekin!

Hazaar baar koi baat reh gayi mujh se...

I spoke to her a thousand times!

A thousand times later, something still remained unsaid .

[shershayariaayi]

humein bhi sikha do bhool jaane ka hunar. ab humse raaton ko uth-uth kar roya nahi jaata.

[shershayariaayi]

— tumhay iss faani dunya mein har uss cheez say bicharna hai jiss say tum muhabbat kartay ho.

In this fleeting mortal world, you must part with all that you hold dear.

cred: @//devoutedmuslim

[shershayariaayi]

"ye jo mujhe paane ki talab hai tumhari, mujhe paakar tum badal jaoge."

//Wajid Shaikh Sahab

[shershayariaayi]

In English we say "I can't make eye contact". But in Urdu, we say:

"Unki nazron ka rukh aaj meri taraf hai,

Aaj meri palkon ne uthne se inkaar kar diya hai".

[shershayariaayi]

"Yearning for you, no trace of me remains."

Amir Khusrau, from “Ghazal 249,” In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau (Penguin Global, 2012)