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कब तलक करूँ इंतज़ार तेरा
दो दिन आरज़ू वाले बीत गए हैं

कब तक रहेगा खिज़ा का आलम
मौसम बहारों वाले बीत गए हैं

अभी तो अंधियारी रात बाकी है
कुछ पल बेक़रारी वाले बीत गए हैं

एक दिन तुम्हें याद आएगी हमारी
ख़्याल तसल्ली वाले बीत गए हैं

क्या आओगे तुम सुनकर अमित
की तुम्हारे चाहने वाले बीत गए हैं

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 136

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PROMPT 136

Anyway, the prompt is to pick up any one line (mention which one have you picked) or gist of the whole piece, if you can make sense of it, and base your piece on it.

Good luck!

Would I care to be right?
If life was not finite
If I’d the luxury of eternity
to let it be naturally proved
that I’ve always been right…

beliefs and perspectives
windowless walls between us
block insights – so much so, that
you revel in pleasures of darkness
bottling and imprisoning light

the beheaded boatsman
sinks with the boat
messenger from afar
carrying a crumpled note
All is not well, all is not right..

But I’d always been right
He should not have ventured this far…


You only need to know a few folding tricks in order to make your own vessel to navigate the water’s currents.  I wanted to watch my paper boat which I painted green, as it made its way out to sea, that is if it didn’t get stuck in those waterlilies.  I opened up a bottle of Yoo-Hoo, because I wasn’t able to get hold of my dad’s rum and I poured some of the contents onto the bow to christen my boat Sea Biscuit, but I was not sure if would sink or float.  I launched it in the creek just under the bridge and since my favorite toy was Gumby and I knew how much he enjoyed going on adventures, I put him in my boat.

Gumby was flexible enough to pilot Sea Biscuit past the waterlilies and he looked like a champion as he steered past the rocks…

nature tells the truth
trust nature to be correct
we invented wrong

for Reena’s Exploration Challenge

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”

― Roy T. Bennett,The Light in the Heart

When we speak, do we speak for ourselves as individuals, or do we speak for our tribe. We all belong to some tribal allegiance and much of what we have to say is not original thought but defense of our tribe. We belong to the political tribe, the ideological tribe, the gender tribe, the race tribe, the religious tribe and the list goes on. We see the world through the lens of our belief structures and so we communicate to others through this lens.

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फ़िर आज किसी ने दी सदा मुझे
क्यों हुआ मुझे गुमान वो तुम हो

बदली से निकला है चाँद सुहाना
कहता है ये आसमान वो तुम हो

माँगता हूँ हज़ार मन्नतें रोज़ाना
पर है एक ही अरमान वो तुम हो

कहाँ जाकर ढूँढूं तुम्हें जहाँ में
मेरे ख्यालों में ग़ुमनाम वो तुम हो

क्यों कर रहे हो कोई उम्मीद अमित
उसकी गली में बदनाम, वो तुम हो

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 135