फित्नत की जुद्द

न दोस्तों का कसूर
न दुश्मनों की चालाकियाँ -
मेरी तबाही क्यों न हसे मुझ पर,
फित्नत की जुद्द में खुद ही जो निकला

- मुश्ताक़

(फित्नत की जुद्द - root of mischief)

दोस्ती का रिश्ता

खुशियों पर फ़िज़ाओं का पहरा है,
न जाने किस उम्मीद पर दिल ठहरा है,
तेरी आँखों से झलकते दर्द की कसम,
यह दोस्ती का रिश्ता मोहब्बत से गहरा है

- अज्ञात

ક્યાંક ધોધમાર વરસદ વરસી જાય છે...

ક્યાંક ધોધમાર વરસદ વરસી જાય છે...
તૉ ક્યાંક એક બૂન્દની તરસ રહી જાય છે!

કોઇક ને મલે છે હજાર ચેહરા...
તો કૉઇક એક ચેહરા માટે તરસી જાય છે!

- મુશ્તાક

(Somewhere it rain torrentially...
and somewhere thirst lingers on for even a drop!

Someone gets a thousand faces...
Someone thirsts for just one face!

- Max)

NDA Road

From N.D.A. Road,
low clouds flirting
with treetops
sculpt surreal
tableaux. I could
break outta my
skin, into a wispy
entity.

- Max

Words

I may spark off a poem in your mind,
as you leave minor bugs behind,
thoughts streak through like lightning,
but words are difficult to find!

- Max

Gaps

Am hiding in timeless gaps,
between your breaths.

- Max

Giving

What could you give me,
I wondered.
Then I lost you.

- Alaka

Could give you
a whole new universe,
if your heart could
verbalise it all.

- Max