Archive for the ‘My Urdu Poetry’ Category
Just a verse
ÙˆÛ Ø¬Ùˆ میرے غم میں رویا
میں خوشی سے رو دیا!
Restless moments of creativity & impressions of feelings, colors and light
I remember the days when I started to say verses, and since I was not a writer, but a keen reader, I never wrote a verse down until I arrange it completely in my mind. It takes time — hours — and some time — days. And as Jameel Jalib confesses that these moments are the most painful moments for a poet (or creater) when he is passing through this time of creativity, I have experienced this restlessness many times when I have ever engaged myself into writing something — and the following gazal is one of my first — when it took me whole night to transfer some impressions of feelings, colors and light from my mind onto paper. All what I got in the end — were these five verses:
ÙˆÙ‚ØªÙ Ø³ØØ± جو دÙÙ† Ú©ÛŒ Ø·Ø±Ø Ù†Ùکلا تھا
شام Ûوتے ÛÛŒ ÚˆÚ¾Ù„ گیا کوئی
جب ستاروں Ù†Û’ Ø§Ù“Ø¦ÛŒÙ†Û Ø¯ÛŒÚ©Ú¾Ø§
اپنی کرنوں سے جل گیا کوئی
تجھ کو معلوم نظر ڈالنے والے
موم سا دل پگھل گیا کوئی
میں تھا، تم تھے یا Ø±Ø§Ø³ØªÛ Ø§ÛŒØ³Ø§
چلتے چلتے بدل گیا کوئی
ÙˆÛØ§Úº پھولوں میں Ø±Û Ú©Û’ جی Ù†Û Ù„Ú¯Ø§
یاں، Ú©Û Ú©Ø§Ù†Ù¹ÙˆÚº میں پل گیا کوئی
I write by the name of Sohail (سÛيل), and I don’t write much often — in fact, I just don’t write down any thing that comes into my mind, just like many regular poets do. But I make myself write something which can really keep tickling with my heartbeat for days. So I also have lost a treasure of ideas and expressions — just by not capturing them in time — just because I tend to avoid the restless moments of creativity!
wassalam
// ch3ckmat3
My Urdu Poetry
It’s been quite some time now when I started to express myself in form of poetry. I was in my intermediate, in Urdu Science College, when I said my first verse – can’t remember what it was, but I was wondered to have a gifted sense of auzaan (balancing in regular urdu poetry) – since then, I use to say verses and gazals (poems).
These verses have become my trademark:
ÙˆÛ Ø¨Ú¾ÛŒ دل ÛÛ’ Ú©Û Ù¾ØªÚ¾Ø± میں Ø®ÙØ¯Ø§ ڈھونڈتا ÛÛ’
ÛŒÛ Ø¨Ú¾ÛŒ Ú©Ø§ÙØ± ÛÛ’ Ú©Û Ù¾ØªÚ¾Ø± ÛÛŒ Ø¬ÙØ¯Ø§ ڈھونڈتا ÛÛ’
تیرا Ú†ÛØ±ÛØŒ تیری آنکھیں، تیری مورت ÛÛ’
میری تنھایٔ خوبصورت ÛÛ’
میں بھی جیتا ÛÙˆÚº کسی Ú©ÛŒ خاطر
جو کبھی ÛØ§Ø±Ø§ Ù†Ûیں میرے لیٔے
I’m a deep admirer of Iqbal, not that because my name is Sohail Iqbal, but I really have a high regard for his thinking and contributions for reconstruction of Muslim Ummah, through his thoughtful poetry, writings and speeches. As he says:
آشنا اپنی ØÙ‚یقت سے ÛÙˆ اے دÛقاں ذرا
Ø¯Ø§Ù†Û ØªÙˆØŒ کھیتی بھی تو، باراں بھی تو، ØØ§ØµÙ„ بھی تو
Ø¢Û! کس Ú©ÛŒ جستجو Ø¢ÙˆØ§Ø±Û Ø±Ú©Ú¾ØªÛŒ ÛÛ’ تجھے؟
Ø±Ø§Û ØªÙˆØŒ Ø±ÛØ±Ùˆ بھی تو، Ø±ÛØ¨Ø± بھی تو، منزل بھی تو
کانپتا ÛÛ’ دل تیرا Ø§Ù†Ø¯ÛŒØ´ÛØ¡ Ø·ÙˆÙØ§Úº سے کیا
ناخدا تو، Ø¨ØØ± تو، کشتی بھی تو، ساØÙ„ بھی تو
Recently, I read Mohsin Naqvi’s “Azaab-e-Deed”, a beautiful collection of his poetry. Checkout a few verses from his gazal:
ÛÙ… سے مت پوچھ راستے گھر Ú©Û’
ÛÙ… Ù…Ø³Ø§ÙØ± Ûیں زندگی بھر Ú©Û’
گر جنوں Ù…ØµÙ„ØØª Ù†Û Ø§Ù¾Ù†Ø§ Û’Ù”
سر سے رشتے Ø¨ÛØª Ûیں پتھر Ú©Û’
Few of his azaad (free form) poems are so enthralling that even I started to think in free form of poetry, and even wrote my first azaad poems as well. So I can say that Mohsin Naqvi is responsible for out setting my azaad poetry.
Here’s one of my short azaad nazms:
اچھا لگنا سب Ú©Ùˆ اچھا لگتا ÛÛ’
تم Ú©Ùˆ کیسا لگتا ÛÛ’
جب مجھ Ú©Ùˆ اچھی لگتی ÛÙˆ
See you soon,
// ch3ckmat3
