There’s this feeling, that one can get, every now and then, of something nagging. It doesn’t necessarily have to do with anything.. anything in particular, but something.. perhaps, someone, perhaps not. I think in this new nazm, I tried to capture it, though I might have failed miserably, but heck, it ended up being a [...]
Here’s a Ghazal that I wrote about a year ago (before which I had taken a two year break from writing Urdu poetry), hence the Ghazal is nothing really great, though some couplets are nice, but its over-all very light-hearted and contains easy to understand language.. mire va’adoN ko gin_naa chhoR do tum muhabbat ko [...]
Continuing with posting my own poetry (which is just a few Ghazals and Nazms that I wrote here and there), here’s another one of my proud creations. zaraa nigaah uThaao k kuchh qaraar aaye mai-e-nashaat pilaao k kuchh qaraar aaye vafaa kii sham’aa jalaao k kuchh qaraar aaye zaraa qareeb to aao k kuchh qaraar [...]
Here’s a ghazal that I also recited in a mushaira that took place in Montreal. The Ghazal got a lot of applauds, thankfully and was well received by the audience there. 1. unkii aaNkhoN se chhalak jaate haiN paimaane ka’ii raat hii raat meiN ban jaate haiN afsaane ka’ii! 2. ik faqat terii hii dil_jo’ii [...]
Another ghazal that I wrote while I was learning how to write technically sound Ghazals (though I have to say, I’m still learning!). This one is yet again, a light-hearted Ghazal and was written on a misra-e-tarah posted on urdustan.net forums. 1. hasrat-e-aashiqii! ham tiraa kyaa kareiN? in sulagatii tamannaaoN kaa kyaa kareiN?? 2. ye [...]
A light-hearted Ghazal written in 2003 as I was learning how to write technically sound Ghazals. On Urdustan.net forums, a misra-e-tarah was given : “kitni vus’at hai hamaare dil meiN aa kar dekhiye”. The following tarahi ghazal was my attempt: 1. ishq kii baazii kabhii ham se lagaa kar dekhiye dekhiye, ik baar to aaNkheiN [...]
oh this ghazal can so easily make you think about time gone by. you can just read the words, listen to them in the voice of many Ghazal singers who sang this…. and then just get lost… wo jo ham meiN tum meiN qaraar thaa, tumheiN yaad ho k na yaad ho vahii yaanii vaadaa [...]
Click on the parts to read the previous articles in this series: Part I, Part II Now that we know how to weigh the words according to their sounds, it’s time to move on and see how we can fit these words in a meter. Lets start off with the answers to the breakdowns of [...]
Click to read the previous article in this series: Part I Part II of the series: We will talk about what do we mean when we discuss the weight of a word in Urdu poetry. Before we begin, let me clarify something, I have no pure technical knowledge of how the meter works in Urdu [...]
While there are several good articles out on the internet about the technicalities of ghazals and how to ensure that you are writing in meter, I thought I might as well add something myself as despite sending a lot of friends to those links, I find that people understand better when I explain it to [...]