Friday, December 2, 2016

चेहरा

अब ये शहर अजनबी नहीं लगता
किसी अंधेरी गली में दिल नहीं बैठता
सारे चेहरे देखे से लगते हैं
अब मन भीड़ में वो एक चेहरा नहीं खोजता

Sunday, August 28, 2016

जीवन यही और उसके रंग

हर कश्ती पे बांधे सपने मेरे
और चाँद का ज्वार उसके विपरीत
जीवन यही और उसके रंग
ना कश्ती छूटे, ना चाँद से रूठें

Friday, May 13, 2016

अवसर

है आरम्भ जग ये जान रहा 
नभ पर कलरव छा रहा 
है मीठी ध्वनि ये तैर रही 
किसी अग्नि तट को भेद रही 
पक्षी रितु नयी जान रहे 
स्वच्छंद गगन पर नाच रहे 
जीवन अँगड़ायी ले रहा 
अवसर नए अब खोल रहा 
मानव तू फिर क्या  सोच रहा 
किस परिचय को तोल रहा 
आकार नहीं कोई बादल का 
ना चेहरा कोई वायु का
देखो निश्चिन्त उड़ रहे 
जल कल कल बह रहा 
स्वर नवीन घोल रहा 
मानव तू फिर क्या सोच रहा 
किस खूटे से अपनी नाव रोक रहा 
समुद्र अपार अवसर है 
तर जा लहरों पर अवसर है 
रंग ढंग जाति योनि सब बंधन है 
बहते की संग बह जाना ही बेहतर अक्सर है 

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Unable

How would I tell you the summers
That my heart blooms into
The tunes that turn words into lyrics 
Rains that spring the soul in me
A kid that runs downhill with the cart
My eyes that lit up with your name
How would I 

This night will not let us win

Friday, April 1, 2016

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Fly

Flipped her wings
The sky turned purple
A journey of her life
Her disbelief the only hurdle
She took the flight
World as usual talked

Storms welcomed
So did tumultuous sun
Called her with names
A disdained whore
A fleeting disgrace
She flew pretty
With blemished face

Her beak upright
With pride on its tip
Her wings flamboyant 
Pushing the game
Her little claws
Firm as motives
Willed eyes
All as one

As she swung
Flipped and streamed
The little birds around
Bullied with hails and
Demeaning greys
Found a means
The hero within

Herds became a troop
The sky became birds
A world beneath looked
Sang in praise
Story of a bird that
Flew at odds
changed a course

#fly 

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

When there was nothing, there was music

When there was nothing, there was music
in the heist of my moments, they called life,
I happily gave away everything, i called mine,
Left with a little stuck in you, and our songs,
The way you said my name, and your breath on my face,
The music in our ears, and in that music a lifetime,
When there was nothing, there was music,
and in them our stories immortalized...

Friday, March 4, 2016

The Drama

The movies of blitzkrieg,
Superheroes flying,
Fist in the air and a zillion cries,
Restrained relationships,
UFOs landing in overcast skies,
Crowning glories,
Missions of might, 
I lay my soul on a white,
The characters paint their stories,
And leave me to survive,
I live an abandoned middle aged wife,
As much an overgrown child,
A sinking ship,
To a reborn prototype,
But the most I enjoy in this tumultuous mind,
Is the drama within and with each character of mine,
Like this pretentious sky,
Of striking thunder and romancing night...

Thursday, March 3, 2016

अचरज

किताबों में पड़ते नहीं अब पत्ते 
जाने बातें छुपा के रखे कहाँ
कुछ याद रखने को नहीं या 
बाँधते नहीं गाठें अब यहाँ 
वक़्त बदला
या हम
क्या पता

ख़त का इंतज़ार होता नहीं अब यहाँ
कभी दिखते नहीं लाल डिब्बे बाज़ार में
कह दिया सब चेहरों मोहरों में या
अब भरोसा नहीं अपनी लिखावट में
वक़्त बदला
या हम
क्या पता

पार्क की बेंच पर मिलते थे चार दीवाने
तर्क होते थे विवाद नहीं
अब गालियाँ देके छुप जाते हो या
डरते हो आँख मिलने से
वक़्त बदला
या हम
क्या पता


Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Letters

Juxtaposed letters have a real story,
The kind abode succumbed to fury,
Refugees flee through heartless wires,
Glimmer of hope on a bed of fire,
The world of big talks and little acts,
Falling concrete and people were all the same,
These were my letters, concealed,
As I waited for our land to be healed,
Reading your letters of spring and sunshine,
Our secret wedding, cakes and wine,
Your tireless wait and my eternal muteness,
Fateless worlds smudged into darkness,
Like a few who made it through the divide,
In a forbidden box the letters survived,
A bit of shimmer lights up in my sight,
As I juxtaposition these letters in my twilight...

Friday, January 22, 2016

जीवनी

आया तूफ़ान टूटा मकान उड़ गयी छत बह गए बाग़ रह गयी नीवें और उम्मीदें रेत के टीले और उनपर नए पौधे उनमें से एक बना मैं बोला बरगद बच्चों से