#urdu poetry

[blogbyher]

"And because you are a dream, I sleep a lot."

-Mahmoud Darwish

[muhtesemz]

نہ تو تُو رہا، نہ تو میں رہا، جو رہی سو بے خبری رہی

There was no ‘I’, no ‘you’; nothing remained

All things were void, only nothingness reigned.

- Nazeer Akbarabadi

[peaceishim]

I found this on twitter.

(Not mine)

[deep-feelings-blog]

In English, we say: " Overthinking "

But in poetry, we say: " The storms in my head ruined the garden that my soul holds"

[lovelettersandjournals]

— Imam Ghazali.

[swelling-eyes]

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

Ahmad faraz

[ihateyouvishal]

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

//Wajid Shaikh Sahab

[dastur-e-ishq]

“Dunya kisi kay pyaar mein jannat say kam nahi.”

for lovers, this world is nothing short of heaven

[maihonhassan]

Parveen Shakir is the finest poetess in the history of urdu literature:

“ye dukh nahi ke andheron se sulah ki humne, malal yeh hai ke ab subha ki talab bhi nahi.”

[izhaar-e-ishq]

Tujhe mein apni ghazal mein itni gehrai se likhunga,

Ki padhne wale ko tujhe dekhne ki talab hogi.

[zeenatsayss]

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".

[urdu-poetry-lover]

مُصِر ہُوں مَیں، کہ گِنا جاؤں باوقاروں میں

اُنہیں یہ ضد کہ مَیں خارج رہُوں شُمار سے بھی

’’احمد ندیم قاسمی‘‘

[blogbyher]

The absolute audacity of a human heart to carry unburdened pain and still choose to say

Qismat mei nhi hoga yeh.

[crookedneighbour20]

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

[stfu-gurl]

There isn't any scent in this world as comforting as the scent of a mother's duppata.