Adios!

Adios!

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If something i have to unwillingly do

Is to bid sweet farewell to you

Looking back, down the lanes of time

I take a trip and rewind

All the good things and bad

You cheered me up or made me sad

Head or tail, its the same coin

Near or far, thither or adjoin

Afresh second  quarter of my life

Lived, laughed and embraced all strife

Places, faces met all new

Fell in love, lost and be-friended a few

Not that i have regrets to hold

Rather chose the memoirs embossed in gold

Lessons learnt and taught as well

To smile and laugh when everything fails

Battles won or not...

Doesnt matter if u’ve nothing that could be lost

Finally hereby i wave a goodbye

To another milestone year 2012, as it passes by

FADE INTO OBLIVION

FADE INTO OBLIVION

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After the roar, the leo quiets

Beyond the peaks are the flats

Louder the noise, the silence you realize

For every high pitch, theres the bass

And a future that follows the present after past

Lest you fly, you have to fall

Only to fade away into oblivion of it all

Eyes on the door

Eyes on the door

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Eyes on the door

Tears flood the floor

He is not here anymore

He left through that door

Eyes on the door

It hurts again and again

Wish it would open

And he will walk through

Eyes on the door

Peeks the past in mind’s window

Only if he felt it too

My love he never knew

Eyes on the door

Obscurities wiped

A big lock hangs on it

The key i lost where...i dont know

Analogies

Analogies

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The shining ray of sunny corona

Hailing the azure infinitely high

In reverence of the heaven above

Divided by the vanilla horizon

From the fathomic blues

Where the Lord Neptune resides

Rays of hopes and optimism

Holds on to Faith divine

Unsynchronized rythms of heart and mind

Laid on horizons of quests

Divided is fancy Myth

From the bitter truth and the real

The ship sets on sail

A voyage to find the land

Waves and turmoils scare its fleet

But the crew steadies its keel

Night and days, amidst winds and rains

Runs its course till it finds the way

Lifes a ride, a long one per se

Directions to choose and an aim

With obstacles to fight

You learn to stand

With every failure

You realize there is another new way!

The sun stands still, but celestials revolve

Even the earth runs the full orbit

With new beginnings of Spring

Exuberance of Summer follows

Autumn dries and kills with fall

Winters are for laying in peace

The mind is still, but influenced by thoughts

It abides the four season rule:

Born are new ideas

Enthused to work

Despaired by defeat

Seeking solace unless it finds the peace

The birds they cant speak, but melodiously sing

The trees never walk, but do stand and wait

The river hurries up downhill, do not reside

The leaves together, all are green

The earth has no edges, but flat and round

The sky somewhere surely touches the ground

Talents and deeds speak out loud

Patience earns you honour and respect

Past is gone, Present is where we Live

Love and Hope binds us all

Where pride has not build its nest

Humble is the happy soul

Mind: The Pandora's Box

Mind: The Pandora's Box

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Most intriguing is ones mind

Travels faster than light!

Chooses its wrongs

And believes its rights

Questions and doubts are its favourite child

Once calm as a sea, can go all wild like the tide

Knows not whether to rule over or benevolently abide

Fights an eternal battle with the heart

Curious database with logical rhymes

Yet again imagination, fancies have all here a start

Good, weird, wicked, artistic...call what you may

Its one pandora’s box , very unpredictable  in every way!

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Couplet # 3

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Inkaar ki gunjayish hi kahaan

Jab tak daastaan-e-dil karoon na bayaan

Zanjeerein ya deewarein kya roke mujhe

Khudi se range thhe jo khatoot-e-khwaab!

Murjhaye huye khwaaabon ka gulistaan

Suna bada, pada hai viraan

Kahaan use samjha thha khuda

Miraaj paas aayi to dikha ek aam insaan

Bewafaa unhe kya kahein...

Jab wafa-e-mohabbat khud kara na izhaar

Waqt ne sunayi saza-e-maut uss khwahish ko

Jisse kabhi mila hi nahin makaanm

Kisi manzil se kyun baandhe dor khwahishon ki?

Kyun chale peeche chhoote raahon par

Nayi raaston ke talaash mein hai nigaahein ab

Mil jaaye Khuda to jahaan ho ikhtiyaar-e-roshan

If Only

If Only

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If only, water ignited fire

If only, sky was beneath earth

If only, the sessile walked

If only, colors were just black and white

If only, left turned right

If only, dark was brighter than lights

If only, all wrongs were rights

If only, insane was sanity

If only, seasons never changed

If only, end was the beginning

If only, the brain ruled over heart

If only, my silence was audible

If only, my strength was not a weakness

Antiparallel

Antiparallel

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To count all stars from the night sky

A useless aim, so meaningless

To live a life yet not breathe the air

Sheer mortal foolishness

To dream of miracles and heavenly grace

An open eyed dream of castles in the air

To fall in love is not a charming spell

But a heartfelt will you made yourself

To create a God of an ordinary man

Is a colorful portrait you sketch yourself

To fall down and feel the pain

Teaches you how to rise up again

To climb the mounts in miles uphill

Why even try if u've to return to dusty grounds

The river ripples and runs its course

Although it eventually turns into vapoury clouds

To live a life with all righteousness

Wheres the fun if u’ve made no mistakes!

Lifes a ride, mix of good & bad surprise

Enjoying the run on two antiparallel tracklines

Joyful Showers!

JOYFUL SHOWERS!

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The aromatic wet soil smell

The showers of His grace

The joyous cheers from Heaven

Yay! Its raining again!

The pearly magic spells

Splashing against the glass panes

The cold and calm terrain

Alive awake are the greens again!

Strumming on a new song with all new tunes to sway

A melody inspired by the pristine rains

For all the happy thoughts and noble aims

Every wish to fullfill, let His blessings pour.. Amen!

the REBEL !

the REBEL !

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No matter how small or big the ideas are

No matter how tall or short you are by stature

No matter how lonely or swarmed by all

No matter how ignorant or enlightened you are

Just stand firm for what you believe is right

When the rest think you are either a fool or even very wrong!!!

......yup thats a sure Rebel to spot! 

God: A creator who destroys

God: A creator who destroys

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God is a Myth indeed!

Trusted Him with my eyes closed

Prayed to Him for my strength & support

Loved Him with every breath He blessed me with

Cared for Him without letting Him know

My dearest fault...

My Creator, He made me what i am

Grateful and indebted forever

When its time for me to bid farewell

Will chose to be destroyed by His hallowed soul

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Tere rooh ki hifaazat hum kiya karenge

Har marz ke dawaa ki dua karenge

Dost mere, jabhbhi gham humein saaya degi

Dil-e-dariyaa tere saamne hi barsaayaa karenge

Maaf kar denaa mere yaar...

Mujhe aur mere ashqon ko

Nahin kartein sitam apne pe yaar...yunhi bewajaah

Behte hue kashtiyon pe kyoon hain ummeed laganaa

Chal padh tu apne raah pe likh de nayee daastaan

Tujhe hai Uspe yakeen to haasel ho tujhe apna har nek makaanm

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Couplet 1

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Chalna to hai umar-bhar k liye...

Par kahaan thheherte hain Saahil ik pal k bhi liye?

Intezaar hain unka, dundenge unhe zindagi k har mod pe

Yakeen hai mil jaayenge mere saanware ek din humein

Unbreakable

Unbreakable

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Fake smile, appearing strong

Fragile, breaking down every moment

If only, silence was loud

Lost, broken and numb

Was slumbering in my painted dreams

And you woke me up

When you said, you’ve to go…

My heart skipped a beat

A heavy weight dropped in there

And all I wanna do, is shed the pain off

To open up to you with the truth

That I don’t want you to leave

Stay! Here with me at my side

Beyond all bounds of time

With my fancy rhymes

Wanted to wipe away all your worries,

Walk with you to your goals

But you say, you gotta go away

To live your dreams, with people you love

So fly away, be happy

Be blessed with all love and success you wished

Will pine, will cry, will perish

Will always remember ...

All our moments together, 

Will always cherish

Your graces and selfless support, my treasure

Will build myself again,  never to be broken 

Not anymore ever again!!!

Grace

GRACE

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[ An English Translation of the ClassicSong: 

"Ehsaan tera hoga" 

by Hasrat Jaipuri and Anand Bakshi]

A favour i ask of thee

To speak the words my heart feel

In amor and awe of you

Let me reside in your colored dreams

The cheers and laughs i've learnt from thee

Tears i’ll cry at your pains and whims

Nay, lament not my lacrymosa

They tumble like the river downhill

Thou art thine creator, as well the destroyer

Even with last breath, will shower my blesses

The westerly will whisper my wish

Cupid struck remorse is one sweet fetish

Teardrops

Teardrops

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A cascade of tears

That she had forsaken

Without any reason or rhyme

Weirdly for long she didn’t cry

Cause she was a big girl now!

A pain... she was hurt inside

A seed growing with time

Away from people she loves

Away from the place she knew

Suppressing her fears and contempt

In search of her quests

To win her battles and fears

To unravel myth and live the reality

To fall in love with the riddle called life

To find herself, a niche and a identity

With the precious pearls on her cheeks

Feels like she has unburdened her soul

A weight dropped in the fathoms

Yet she keeps missing her home

Not yet strong as she appears to be 

My Shadow

My Shadow

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Paced behind

Never to shine bright

Seems dark, but...

Appears only in light

Has many myriads of mood

In all shapes and form looms

A loyal follower, silently beside

Despite all odds and stride

There in sad solitude

Even when there happy rays of hope

My silhouette, my shadow

Will be there with me always, i know

Only when its grim black

And no sun will shine

Will it leave me

In search of a luminous soul

Leh: A Eutopia!

Leh: A Eutopia!

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Bordered by brawny mounts

Standing tall and stout!

Roofed by veily-clouds,

From sunny rays too loud.

Aqueous runs a steepy fall...

Radiating rainbow colors from crystal showers.

Sometimes it rains

Sometimes snowflakes!

The valley beneath...

Is a big green maze.

Scaling the heights

We drive through the climb

Reaching out to the...

Highest peak in sight

Snowcaped walls enclose the land

An embrace, can feel the warmth

A slip through the icy planes

The cold wind gushing through panes

Dinners beneath the starry night

Studded like diamonds in the sky

A dessert in day, snows at late

Mix of warm and cold climate

Children play and reflect innocence

Honesty are these people’s essence

Mesmerized, smitten and infatuated

With Leh, Sir Moore’s Utopia re-designated

TIME

TIME

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Slipping away like the grains of sand

When i want to hold on tightly in my hand

Would have...

But it will never ever wait nor stand

Away like the westerly breezing away

Unresiding, can never belong to land

A futile chase ...

Many a paces it runs along

With every tik-tok

Will always end up stranded alone

TRANSIENCY

TRANSIENCY

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Very transient is this real life

Hate that what i like always lasts just for a while

The childhood is gone robbing off the innocence

The cheers don’t last, neither do tears and impatience

Promises never kept, holding hands lost in a whiff

Trust escapes and even hopes and despairs are for brief

Fantasies are myth, no matter what you believe

Time is the only constant whether you are happy or in grief

All your dreams and wishes dearly pinned

Inevitably will be gone with the wind!

Chasing Dreams

Chasing Dreams

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Twittering away like the butterflies

The colourful dreams, 

Away they soar

Lucid is the reality

As the cloudy curtains, 

Have i now torn

Horizon is a mere mirage

Lost is the ship in blue fathoms, 

Although started off from shore

A futile myth indeed

To seek the treasure chest, 

At the end of the rainbow

Reiterating like the fool

Falling again...

Eventually to lose

To chase my dreams or bruise?

Depends on what i choose 

Athena: The Damsel who saved the Knights!

Athena: The Damsel who saved the Knights!

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‘tis is not a ballad, or just another rhyme

Not at all for the chauvinistic type

‘tis about a fair damsel and her witty fights

Not her rescue,

But how she saved those valorous knights!

The times were hard, Trojans at war

It was raining fire, without law and order

Paris had stole Helen, and Troy was in mess

Thanks to Aphrodite’s selfish boons and grace!

Achilles, an almost immortal was called on stage

Victor with Athene’s shrewd wit and rage

Odysseus was aided, in a divine archery stand

To save Penelope and recapture Ithaca, his own land

Heracles was another devout to hallowed Minerva

She guided him to defend the reptile-haired Medusa

Born of Zeus’s heady thoughts armed with her Labrys

This lassy Olympian had defeated Posiedon and his Athens whims

Her Holiness, with her nocturnal Glaucus and Erichthonius crawled

Is a mighty femme, always through ages idolized and honoured

WISHES

WISHES

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If wishes grew on trees, would pluck them ripe

If wishes were stars, would reach upto the skies

If wishes were showers, would drench in the rains

If wishes were bound, would unshackle its chains

If wishes were rays, would in sunlight drape

If wishes were rainbows, would color all scape

If wishes were bricks, would build the wall

If wishes were flutters, would catch them all

If wishes were warm, would use them when i’m low

If wishes were love, would never let you go

But wishes are hopes, conjured in dreams

And wishes are true, when worked upon with faith and belief 

THE TRAMP

The Tramp

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To feel the waves, to fight the tides
To trek on rocks, to scale new heights
To smell the blooms, to bed in dreams
To scrap the rusts, from across dry leaves
To hear the song, to fly like dove
To dance in rain, to bathe in love
To play in dust, like the ants and mites
To stand tall, in peril with might
To cast away regrets, to walk the line
To be in tune, with the melody entwined
To leave a print, on the canvass of sand
The Tramp embarks upon voyage à la Life

SPELLBOUND

SPELLBOUND 

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The dark clouds in her evil embrace,

Has hid my dear moon's shiny face 

When will it pour the crystal showers? 

Want my crescent unshackled from her arms! 

The stars all with their baited breath await.. 

To dance in the aura of lunar beam again 

The thunder cheers and claps for rain to begin. 

With these happy spells, the brunette is dismissed 

The mystique moonlit charm reappears, 

 The celestials bow in awe to his revered grace

The Escapist

The Escapist

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Just like the retreating ocean’s tide

Just like the sunset in vanilla twilight

Just like the rainbow after a colourful sight

Just like the friend with whom you had a fight

Just like the song when you lose the melody

Just like the pain after a remedy

Just like the fear at every new challenge

Just like the youth as there advents age

Just like the crescent before new-moon

Just like the overhead shadow after noon

Just like the lover after his promise

Just like the life after death hath kissed

To be gone in search of respite

Away far away, O the escapist arise!

The 7 Ironies of Life!

The 7 Ironies of Life!

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To define the good theres ought to be bad

To see the light you should be first lost in dark

Devil has to be there to ensure you follow the Angel

Truth tastes bitter after sugar-coated lies

Hope arrives when you are utterly despaired

Only when you lose, you know the joy of gain

Theres always a new beginning after every end

The Full Moon

The Full Moon

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Its that hour of the day when..

Waiting for Hypnos to sing his lullaby

But staring from the curtained panes

Is the pearly Selene in the night sky

Many a Endymion hath fallen

Tangled in her web amor

The enchantress of Nyx

She is the Diana hallowed

A silvery shield, very gloriously pale

From atop the Olympian highs

Awed and revered by the twinkles

The stars are showering in Luna’s light

The full moon enchantingly bewitches

And drowns me in somnolence away from all plights

REFLECTION

REFLECTION
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Never a perfection ofcourse
But not even a good mirror to my faults
Walking on rose strewn path,
Hidden beneath are thorns
Wish for cognizance and  insights
To pick my wrongs from my rights

The Autumn Leaf

The Autumn Leaf 

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A green not in its prime

Dried and frail with time

The beauty it still hath

With deep venations scratched

Glorius gold lying on the dust

An autumn leaf in its rust

Happy 2012

Happy 2012

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To ye 2011, a smiley adios

Thanks for all the cheers and loss.

As the nuit paves way for the new dawn

Heres wishing Happy 2012 to everyone !!!!