no margin

The seven poems in this collection, published first on Facebook between 2010 & 2015, strung together through the thread of society or the state, present the first volume of my poems on world.

These seven reflections on communication, relationship, the question of time and authority are questions, suggestions and even provocations about our understanding of the world.

 

no margin

breathing lead from scars never let dry

dreams tainted in caustic memory

“to go over the bridge” they won’t ever know

leashed beasts in heat extol another history

but I rise: a lightening perhaps or dust merely

amongst the scared and the unholy

when you are outnumbered

who will you be

October 2000 

नीयत की मिल्कियत

पढोगे  लिखोगे  बनोगे  ख़राब

खेलोगे  कूदोगे  रहोगे  नवाब 

बुरा  के  अच्छा  कौन  रक्खे  हिसाब 

झूठा  या  सच्चा  क्या  उखाड़ोगे  आप 

कीमत  है  सब  की,  हो  छुरी  या  किताब 

जो  नीयत  है  बाकि  तो  मिलिय  जनाब 

May 24, 2010

 

झुकी नज़र

ख़ौफ पर नक़ाब सुरूर का

हया पर हिजाब गुरुर का 

मश्रूफ था ख़ाक से अरमान छानता

झुकी यूं नज़र क्युं नहीं जानता

उसूलों का डण्डा, क़ाय्दों का फन्दा 

पिस गया हर कोइ, खयाल हो या बन्दा  

क्या हुआ हासिल कौन काबु ये नहीं जानता

झुकी है नज़र क्युं नहीं जानता

अलग-अलग अन्दाज़ो-अदा, फित्रत जुदा-जुदा 

ज़ख्मों को दे हावा, किसीकी भूल को पन्हा 

न हो मुक़र्रर कोइ जुबां मै नहीं मानता 

झुकी फिर नज़र क्युं नहीं जानता

December 24, 2010

beware

avoid the gaze of the destructive monster

and you will survive and you will prosper

a grave mistake to disturb its slumber

unless you too are a bit of a monster

a mindless consumer or a heartless soldier

you are of use as only one of the either

but were you to point at it even a finger

that’s all that would be left of you to linger

as an apparatus of the ever-growing monster

you too may profit, pilfer and plunder

to call it a monster will be your last blunder

beware the wrath of the seductive monster

December 25, 2010