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The finest Urdu and English poetry from legendary and contemporary poets
46 poems available
Mirza Ghalib
Hazaar khwahishein aisi ke har khwahish pe dam nikle
Bahut nikle mere armaan lekin phir bhi kam nikle
Na main jaanaa jun-ko na woh jaane mast-e-daraa
Ke kis ka kaun hai tu tera kaun hai tera
Mohsin se dil ne waista kiya hai jo har roz
Bakhshish ke badle dard-e-dil ka sauda karte hain
Meaning
A thousand desires each worth dying for. Many wishes were fulfilled yet still too few.
12.4K likes
Mirza Ghalib
Dil-e-nadan tujhe hua kya hai
Aakhir is dard ki dawa kya hai
Aah ko chahiye ek umr asar hone tak
Kaun jeeta hai teri zulf ke sar hone tak
Meaning
O innocent heart what has happened? A sigh needs a lifetime to take effect.
9.8K likes
Mirza Ghalib
Ishq mujhko nahin sahi woh jahaan sahi
Jung-e-ishq sahi jang-e-jaan sahi
Woh jo shak ho to khud ko jala de sahi
Ishq pe koi zarf ka imtihaan sahi
Meaning
If love is not for me then the world is. If it means war of love so be it.
6.3K likes
Mirza Ghalib
Ye na thi hamari qismat ke wisaal-e-yaar hota
Agar aur jeete rehte yahi intezaar hota
Teri naazuki se jaana ke bande bayabaan hain
Teri galiyon ke hawaon ke bhi diwaar hain
Meaning
It was not my fate to meet the beloved. Had I lived longer this wait would continue.
11.2K likes
Mirza Ghalib
Kuch to majbooriyan rahi hongi
Yun koi bewafa nahin hota
Meaning
There must have been some compulsion. No one is unfaithful without reason.
9.4K likes
Mirza Ghalib
Muddat hui hai yaar ko mehman kiye hue
Dil mein kuch baat hai jo zubaan aati nahi
Meaning
It has been long since I hosted my beloved. Something in the heart the tongue cannot speak.
7.6K likes
Mirza Ghalib
Ye woh sorat hai ki hum unke
Siwa kuch yaad nahin aata
Meaning
This is the state where nothing but you comes to my mind.
5.4K likes
Mirza Ghalib
Husn aur ishq dono uska haseen hain
Dard-e-dil uska hai ya seen hain
Meaning
Beauty and love both belong to that person. Is it the heart or the chest?
4.2K likes
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Mujh se pehli si mohabbat mere mehboob na maang
Maine samjha tha ke tu hai to darakhshaan hoga
Meri wafaon ka rang aur tanha main kya hoga
Woh jo hum mein tum mein qaraar tha tum yaad karo
Meaning
Do not ask me for that old love again. I thought with you everything would shine.
11.8K likes
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Raat yoon dil mein teri khoi hui yaad aayi
Jaise woh jaati hai behsi ke aakhri saans aayi
Meaning
The night brought back your lost memory. Like the last breath of consciousness.
8.3K likes
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Intezar zindagi ka hai tera intezaar
Tu aaye na aaye yeh alag sawaal hai
Meaning
The waiting of life is waiting for you.
4.8K likes
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Dono jahan teri muhabbat mein haar ke
Woh ja raha hai koi keh raha hai intezaar kar
Meaning
Having lost both worlds in your love. Someone is going saying wait.
7.1K likes
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Maaon se mere kahe do ki aae din sajti hun
Baith ke takiya karti hun rasta takti hun
Meaning
Tell my mothers that I adorn myself everyday. I sit watching the door.
5.4K likes
Mir Taqi Mir
Aye ishq ab kya bataayein
Dil kya cheez hai deewangi kya hai
Meaning
O love what shall I tell now. What is the heart what is this madness.
8.7K likes
Mir Taqi Mir
Dil mein tere khamoshiyan chhupi hain
Dil se tere javaab aate nahi
Meaning
Your silences are hidden in the heart. Answers do not come.
6.5K likes
Mir Taqi Mir
Mohabbat mein nahin hai farq jeene aur marne ka
Usi ko dekh kar jeete hain jis kaafir pe dam nikle
Meaning
In love there is no difference between living and dying.
7.8K likes
Mir Taqi Mir
Is umar ko bhi mil jaye koi
Jo khud bhi roye aur mujh ko bhi rulaye
Meaning
May someone come who cries herself and makes me cry too.
5.2K likes
Mir Taqi Mir
Bhula do mujhko agar yaad na aata
Yaad karta hun to yaad bahut aata
Meaning
Forget me if I do not remember. When I do remember I remember a lot.
4.1K likes
Ahmad Faraz
Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhaane ke liye aa
Aa phir se mujhe chhod ke jaane ke liye aa
Ek umr se hoon laal-e-yar mein jalte hue
Na teri shan na tera ilzaam ke liye aa
Meaning
Come even if to resent me to break my heart. Come once more even if just to leave me again.
16.3K likes
Ahmad Faraz
Ab ke hum bichde to shayad kabhi khwaabon mein milein
Jis tarah sookhe hue phool kitaabon mein milein
Meaning
If we part now perhaps we will meet in dreams. Like dried flowers found in books.
12.1K likes
Ahmad Faraz
Tum meri zindagi ka hissa ho kya ghazal
Mera dil teri aankhon se jhoothi khabar sunata hai
Meaning
You are a part of my life. My heart delivers false news from your eyes.
7.4K likes
Ahmad Faraz
Sar-e-raah tere naam likha
Raste ne poochha kaun ho tum
Meaning
I wrote your name at the crossroads. The road asked who are you.
6.8K likes
Ahmad Faraz
Zakhm-e-dil ka marham dhoondta phirta hun
Apni aankhon mein teri aankhein dhoondta phirta hun
Meaning
I wander searching for a balm for the wound of my heart. I search for your eyes in my own eyes.
4.5K likes
Parveen Shakir
Mere khutut ki tareekh mein ek naam hai tera
Dard-e-dil ki dastakhat mein ek naam hai tera
Meaning
In the history of my letters there is only your name. In the signature of heartache there is your name.
8.1K likes
Parveen Shakir
Kuch to majbooriyan rahi hongi
Yun koi bewafa nahin hota
Meaning
There must have been some compulsion. No one is unfaithful without reason.
8.8K likes
Parveen Shakir
Mah-e-tamam guzra hua chand saal ke baad
Phir se meri zindagi mein aane wala hai koi
Meaning
After many years the full moon is about to enter my life again.
6.2K likes
Parveen Shakir
Samundar kisi ke intezaar mein baitha hai
Khwab kisi ke aankhon mein abhi baaki hain
Meaning
The ocean sits waiting for someone. Dreams still remain in someone's eyes.
5.5K likes
Parveen Shakir
Aaj mujhe dard-e-dil ka maza aa gaya
Teri yaad ne mujhe rula ke dekha
Meaning
Today I enjoyed the pain of my heart. Your memory tried making me cry.
7.3K likes
Parveen Shakir
Kisi ko usse bhi dard-e-dil ka ilzaam na do
Jo kuch na kare wo bhi kitna kuch karta hai
Meaning
Do not blame someone for heartache. Even one who does nothing does so much.
6.8K likes
John Elia
Deewangi meri tujhko bhi pata hai
Main kya kya sochta hun ye bhi tujhe maloom hai
Meaning
You know my madness. You know what all I think.
9.2K likes
John Elia
Tum mujhe kyun nahi milte
Hai kya raaz tumhari zindagi ka
Meaning
Why do I not find you. What is the secret of your life.
8.4K likes
John Elia
Mujhe hi dekhte raho raat din tum
Mujhe hi dekho ya mujhe chhod do
Meaning
Keep looking at me day and night. Either keep looking or let me go.
5.8K likes
John Elia
Ek ajnabi haseena se yun mera dil laga
Ke zindagi ki tamanna phir kyun kar bachi
Meaning
My heart fell for a stranger beauty. How did the desire to live then survive.
10.3K likes
Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.
Meaning
Rumi invites us beyond all labels into a space of pure connection.
19.5K likes
Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn
by the strange pull of what you really love.
It will not lead you astray.
Meaning
Trust the pull of your true calling. It knows the way.
17.8K likes
Rumi
Love is the water of life.
Drink it down, let it drown you.
The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
Meaning
Love is life's essential water. We were always already together.
20.3K likes
Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Meaning
The beloved outlasts even summer through the immortality of verse.
26.5K likes
Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Meaning
Love as an eternal, unchanging force beyond time.
24.2K likes
Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Meaning
Real love sees beauty beyond exaggerated comparisons.
18.9K likes
Shakespeare
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate.
Meaning
Thinking of the beloved transforms despair into joy.
15.6K likes
Shakespeare
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Meaning
Aging and mortality deepening love's urgency.
14.1K likes
Bulleh Shah
Rabb di laawan vich ki layi dil diyan gallan
Dil vich raaz sharaar lagaya
Meaning
In Gods love what place have the whispers of the heart.
6.5K likes
Rabindranath Tagore
Where dost thou stand behind them all, my lover,
hidden in the shadows of their successive masks?
Seeking me in dark corners they do not know that
I am with them all.
Meaning
God is present everywhere even when we do not recognize.
8.9K likes
Rabindranath Tagore
The sleep that flits on baby's eyes - does anybody know where it was born?
It is faint like the yellow moonlight in a thin cloud,
It smells like a half-blown jasmine flower in the dusk.
It has a shadow that dances on the cradle leaves.
Meaning
The mysterious origin of a baby sleep.
7.2K likes
Josh Malihabadi
Hairan hun tere qareeb aane se
Ye kaisa nasha hai jo sanson mein ghula hai
Meaning
I am amazed at your closeness. What intoxication has dissolved in my breath.
5.6K likes