Entries Tagged as ‘Poetry’

August 20, 2006

Dasht-e-Tanhai

Yaad (Dashte Tanhai):
Dasht-e-tanhaee main ai jaan-e-jahaan larzaan hai
Teri aavaaz kay saaey, teray honton kay saraab
Dasht-e-tanhaee main dooree kay khas-o-khaak talay
Khil rahay hain teray pehloo kay saman or gulaab

Uth rahee hai kaheen qurbat say teri saaNs kee aanch
Apnee khushboo main sulagti hooee madham madham
Door ufaq paar chamaktee hooee qatra qatra
Gir rahee hai teri dildaar nazar kee [...]

July 1, 2006

Darkness awaits me…

i live in a whirlwind which is swirling
an endless continuum with no cessation
for eternity it seems to be going on and on
but i know it isn’t long, before i’m thrown
into a void of incapacitation that I landed in
I had erred and I know that
I landed myself here and the burden I cannot bear
Is there a [...]

June 1, 2006

-dervish in my mind-

-dervish in my mind- 
Spineless as it feels the world around me 
I’m spinning reminiscent it is 
of the whirling dervish that I constructed 
in my thoughts, reality as it seemed 
swinging to the tunes and melodies 
of stagnant chants that envelop me 
a morass of distorted perception 
was it not suppose to be the truth 
standing up for the principles that 
we so dearly [...]

May 19, 2006

[metropolitana]

Metropolitania 
 by Sami Akhridin
mirrors incite narcism
O but i am so addicted
O but it is art also
O but your hair color
last tuesday night peter and i
were scratching the television
with our eyes, aggrevating the edges
of our pupils, trying to make them
peel off.
“Hey dude I’m paralysed
     Only cool people are paralysed
            The new patented hovercraft-wheelchair
      SR X-X-X
They’re solar-powered
     so [...]