Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Yoon na mil

" Splash" by Neha


Yoon na mil mujh se khafa ho Jaise
Sath chal mauj-e-saba ho Jaise

Log yoon dekh ke hans dete hain
Tu mujhe bhool gaya Ho jaise

Ishq ko shirk ki hudd tak na barha
Yoon na mil humsey khuda ho Jaise

Maut bhee aaye to iss naaz ke sath
Mujh pe ehsaan kiya ho Jaise

Aise anjaan baney baithey ho
Tum ko kuch pata bhi na ho jaise

Hichkiyan raat ko aati hi Raheen
Tuney phir yaad kiya Ho jaise

Zindagi beet rahi hai "daanish"
Ek bejurm saza ho jaise

-Ehsaan Danish

Listen to this lovely ghazal by Mehdi Hassan at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQDgokpsFoc

Monday, December 13, 2010

Lines by a Person of Quality

"The Reader" by Neha

Fluttering spread thy purple pinions,
Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart,
I a slave in thy dominions,
Nature must give way to art.

Mild Arcadians, ever blooming,
Nightly nodding o'er your flocks,
See my weary days consuming,
All beneath yon flowery rocks.

Thus the Cyprian goddess weeping,
Mourned Adonis, darling youth:
Him the boar, in silence creeping,
Gored with unrelenting tooth.

Cynthia, tune harmonious numbers;
Fair Discretion, tune the lyre;
Soothe my ever-waking slumbers;
Bright Apollo, lend thy choir.

Gloomy Pluto, king of terrors,
Armed in adamantine chains,
Lead me to the crystal mirrors,
Watering soft Elysian plains.

Mournful Cypress, verdant willow,
Gilding my Aurelia's brows,
Morpheus, hovering o'er my pillow,
Hear me pay my dying vows.

Melancholy, smooth Mæander,
Swiftly purling in a round,
On thy margin lovers wander
With thy flowery chaplets crowned.

Thus when Philomela, drooping,
Softly seeks her silent mate,
So the bird of Juno stooping;
Melody resigns to fate.

-Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ode to some yellow flowers

" Some yellow flower" by Neha


Against the blue moving its own blue,
the sea, and against the sky,
some yellow flowers.

October arrives.

And though it may be
so important for the sea to unroll
its myth, its mission, its yeast-like inspiration,
there explodes
over the sand the gold
of a single yellow plant
and your eyes
are fixed
on the ground,
they flee from the great sea and its rhythms.

We are and will be dust.

Not air, not fire, nor water
but
earth,
only earth
we will be
and maybe also
some yellow flowers.

- Pablo Neruda

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Riddle of the World

" The Glory" by Neha

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan
The proper study of mankind is man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks to little, or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself, abused or disabused;
Created half to rise and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all,
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest and riddle of the world.

- Alexander Pope