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The finest Urdu and English poetry from legendary and contemporary poets
33 poems available
Mirza Ghalib
Bazeecha-e-atfaal hai duniya mere aage
Hota hai shab-o-roz tamasha mere aage
Meaning
The world is a playground before me. Night and day a spectacle unfolds.
8.9K 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
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
Allama Iqbal
Taraqqi ka raaz hai yehi hai jahan mein
Jo apni fitrat ki rawani mein chalta hai
Meaning
The secret of progress is to flow with your own nature.
8.4K likes
Allama Iqbal
Qaum ka matlab hai apni qoumat ki taameer
Silsila-e-ummat aur silsila-e-taakheer
Meaning
The purpose of a nation is the building of its own dignity.
6.7K likes
Allama Iqbal
Nigah-e-faqr mein shan-e-khuda kya hai
Woh dust-e-aashiqan ki tawheen kya hai
Meaning
In the gaze of the poor lies the glory of God.
7.2K 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
Mir Taqi Mir
Khuda ke vaaste zara dekh ke chal
Kisi ke pairon mein zakhm na de de
Meaning
For Gods sake look where you are going. Be careful not to wound someone.
9.3K 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
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
Mehfil se uthne waalon ko kya kahen
Jo baithe the to maza aa gaya tha
Meaning
What shall we say to those who left the gathering. When they sat it was delightful.
5.9K likes
Ahmad Faraz
Zindagi mein koi kabhi kisi se milta hi nahi
Ye sab riwayat hai purani ye kahani nahi
Meaning
In life no one ever truly meets anyone. This is an old tradition not a new story.
7.2K 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
Jine ki arzoo thi magar aa gayi maut
Har kisi ki qismat mein yeh nahi hota
Meaning
I wished to live but death arrived. This does not happen to everyone.
6.7K likes
John Elia
Kuch is tarah se tune mujhe nazar-andaz kiya
Ke main apni hi nazar mein jo hoon wo bhi ban gaya
Meaning
You ignored me in such a way that I lost even what I was in my own eyes.
7.6K 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
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
Meaning
Our wounds become doorways for light. We carry the whole universe within.
24.5K 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
Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Meaning
The fleeting nature of beauty and innocence.
18.7K likes
Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Meaning
Desire and hate as forces of destruction.
16.2K likes
Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or help one robin to his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Meaning
A life of purpose through simple acts of kindness.
15.8K likes
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry -
Meaning
Books as vessels that carry us to distant lands.
13.4K likes
Kabir Das
Bura jo dekhan main chala bura na milya koi
Jo dil khoja apna mujhse bura na koi
Meaning
I searched for evil but found none. When I looked into my heart I found no one worse than me.
11.5K likes
Kabir Das
Kaal kare so aaj kar aaj kare so ab
Pal mein parlay hoga baaki hai kab
Meaning
Do tomorrow's work today, today's work now.
14.6K likes
Kabir Das
Pahan puje hari mili main to pujun raghuvera
Tan se ragan jari gai mo se chhuda nahin jeevera
Meaning
If worshipping stones finds God then I worship Rama.
9.8K likes
Kabir Das
Dheere se jana baghin mein khar-khar gaayen charain
Ek kafan tani hai leke kya doosri kafan badlain
Meaning
Walk slowly into the forest. We have one shroud.
8.7K likes