Kiya hai tum ne hum se Ek waada yaad rakhna
Bhool na jaana kahin apna irada yaad rakhna
Ab na hamain rulana tum , ab na door jaana tum
Pehle hi seh chuke hain dukh itne ziyada yaad rakhna
Dil to na dukhao ge mujhay choor to na jao ge
Dil main hi base ho tum ab isse abaad rakhna
Tum jo choor jao ge hum to mar hi jayen ge
Tumhare dam se zindagi hai sirf itna yaad rakhna
Chahaton ki duniya main roshni tumhi se hai
Dil ...
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kaun jiitaa hai terii zulf ke sar hone tak
daam har mauj me.n hai halqaa-e-sad_kaam-e-nahang
dekhe.n kyaa guzare hai qatare pe gauhar hone tak
aashiqii sabr-talab aur tamannaa betaab
dil kaa kyaa rang karuu.N Khuun-e-jigar hone tak
ham ne maanaa ke taGaaful na karoge lekin
Khaak ho jaaye.nge ham tum ko Khabar hone tak
partav-e-Khuur se hai shabanam ko fanaa kii taaliim
mai.n bhii huu.N ek inaayat kii nazar hone tak
yak_nazar besh nahii.n fursat-e-hastii Gaafil
garmii-e-bazm hai ik raqs-e-sharar hone tak
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"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. "
- Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered
"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry."
- W.B. Yeats
"The distinction between historian and poet is not ...