urdu poetry

There’s something about urdu poetry that I find very attractive and engaging…
it’s the way the words roll of your tongue…
its how smooth they feel…
the way the words come together to begin with…
there is a simplicity that is quite delicious…
sometimes, late evenings, when you really could do with some company, they have a way of coming to your rescue…I almost always wish I was uttering those words to someone… reading them aloud to someone who felt them...
there is a certain respect towards each emotion…
there is an enigma in brevity…
and then there are the emotions some of the poems evoke…

bas ik jhijhak hai yahii haal-e-dil sunaane me.n
ki teraa zikr bhii aayegaa is fasaane me.n

baras pa.Dii thii jo ruKh se naqaab uThaane me.n
vo chaa.Ndanii hai abhii tak mere Gariib-Khaane me.n

isii me.n ishq kii qismat badal bhii sakatii thii
jo vaqt biit gayaa mujh ko aazamaane me.n

ye kah ke TuuT pa.Daa shaaKh-e-gul se aaKhirii phuul
ab aur der hai kitanii bahaar aane me.n

kaifi azmi