Haiku

First: Five syllables.
Second: Seven syllables.
Third: Five syllables.

– Ron Padgett

Aaj jo raat ka nasha hai

aaj jo raat ka nasha hai
woh kuch khaas hai
aahein bicha ke baithe hai hum
ke unke aane ki aas hai

lamha lamha beete hai taras kar
unke intezaar mein
agle deedar ke liye dhadke hai dil
sab kuch khaas hai mere yaar mein

jhalak dekhne ko uski
saikdo ka dil tarse hai
chuu lene ko uske husn ki khwaish se
baarish ki har boond barse hai

na jaane kya nasha hai uski nigaho mein
jo bin piye meri rooh tak behek jaati hai
aana uska jashn se kya kam hai
jo chuu le use, hawa tak mehak jaati hai

sau dafa hue hain khafa
sau dafa hue hain juda
dor aise hai ki khinche chale aate hain
rishta hai anmol, ke hairan hai khud khuda.

hai jo ummeed un se,
na jaane woh kab poori hogi,
beet gayi jo bina unke deedar ke,
toh kambakth poonam ki raat bhi adhoori hogi.

batlati hai yeh fizayein humse,
ki us husn pari ka ik alag hi jahaan hai
lekin jaane kya yeh nadaan hawaein,
ki is shama ka iklauta parwana yahan hai

-D’puk.

A Haiku

This Rooster
Struts along as though
he had something to do.

-Anonymous

Status Quo

But the signals stopped. The enthusiasm with which our race was following the revelations of the 2nd generation have waned. The common people here look in disgust at the 2nd generation, who are slowly narrowing down their chances of survival. We were lucky enough to have escaped with our knowledge intact when we did from Earth. Our scriptures are still followed with gusto. Our traditions haven’t changed much. We still live in harmony with our host planet that bears us.

I was taken aback with fascination with the way the 2nd generation has grown to suffice themselves. Their technology, though artificial and bounded, has developed into a very intricate one. We held no hope in them for they had lost everything that would show them the ways of yore but some are still alive who try to adhere to the old ways from whatever remains they discovered. My team has recently come upon some of them who are trying to adhere to the rules of old. Those we followed long ago.

Our technology was derived from the truths of the universe. Everything that is perceived, has an explanation to it. There are factors that govern everything. At first we didn’t understand it well at all, but over time with the right advancements, solid truths were assimilated and thus we grew, hand in hand with everything around. We try to maintain a perfect balance with everything, the elements, the ethereals, and the polyfrequency realms that exist. Our perceptions and our bodies evolved over time to strengthen our equilibrium with everything else. There are many, highly regarded ones who are gods of their respective realms. For you see, there is a system that defines everthing that exists, and to see through and be one with the system allowed for a few very talented individuals to gain control of the systems. For the power that lies in matter is massive, and to gain control of the hidden powers meant real power. Power that was unforeseen by any. Powers beyond our wildest imaginations, and one thing led to another and thus a lot of secrets were uncovered and domesticated. But there are few who are strong enough to influence the system. These powerful individuals comprise the council of elders.There were such individuals who were unfortunately left behind on earth. Our studies and monitoring so far have resulted in findings with which we are able to understand their vast realm of life.

Other things aside, the majority of them seem to live artificial lives, bound to material comforts, oblivious to the truth, oblivious to themselves, their purpose, oblivious to their grand journey. They have started living shorter and shorter lives. It pains me that so many lives are lived without meaning, without purpose, without knowing good from bad, totally awry of the truth.

With the contact we made with that certain group of 2nd generation humans, came a lot of interest and curiosity and funding from our organizations. But as abruptly as we started getting their signals, it stopped around a month ago, which is approximately 6 months ago on Earth.
I do not know what happened to our humans, whether good or harm came to them. Maybe somebody on Earth also intercepted their signals and did something to stop them. Our scout ships had been dispatched to watch out for any signals or signs of our human correspondents, but so far, nothing has been found. The scouts did come to face growing difficulties in and around Earth’s gravitational zone and for safety issues our scout ships keep away from the populated areas. Since then, status-quo.

The scouts did turn up with a lot of information that was sent to the Council of Intelligence. Since then the council has held their silence with respect to Earth. Earth is in a sorry shape. Though technological marvels have rocketed the 2nd generation quite far in a short time, the equilibrium of life is swaying. With the massive growth rate and growing needs, they have forgotten the ways of old and are ravishing the planet. Its only a matter of time before they face judgement day.Our council of intelligence is in consideration of an evacuation. Else we shall have to leave them to their doom. It is now only a matter of time.

With every passing day, their climate gets hotter. Their atmosphere gets thinner. Their supply of oxygen is vanishing at a steep rate since their only source of natural oxygen, the botanical reserves are vanishing. They are so obsessed with making way for life that they don’t consider their ways of present that will reflect on their future. The scouts did report that many countries(as they call political regions) are taking up the responsibility to reform to a greener habitat, and yet others are sealing their fate.

There have been advancements though in an individual level on Earth.
Quasmas are the mappings of all the frequencies that overlap the realms and parallel universes, showing the true co-ordinates of space in the universe. Any abnormalities in the equilibrium frequencies show up as dents and dots and ripples in the immediate vicinity of the true positions of entities. The Quasma scans were a great delight to our department. It has proved that true advancements are taking place on Earth. Our Quasma scans have proof of individuals who have started creating wormholes(as they call the universal doorways) and others who have been able to harness the power of time. And yet others who are getting powerful enough to start effecting and manipulating their worlds. This is good news since that improves the chances of them acquiring communication over the universes and the different levels in the hierarchy of life.

Earth and Pitrangea(Our planet) harbor life in its bottom most levels. There are many planets out there that harbor life in different stages of existence and advancements. Not all are friendly. Some of them are so technologically advanced that they are nomadic, able to sustain life through their technology while on the move scouring for resources and knowledge to thrive on. Most races stick to one planet and live harmoniously on the planet. There are races that rule solar systems. There are yet others that rule galaxies together.

We are neither the most peaceful nor the most ravenous. We are mentally and technologically advanced enough to keep out of confrontations. If we encounter invaders, we use our mental powers to shield neural detection and have the technology to avoid invaders in our vicinity. This is how we have survived, and this is how we shall continue to survive.
To thrive. To Justify. To Control. To Learn. To exist…

To be able to reunite the two generations has been a dream of mine long jaded. It is not likely that we would break silence, for they are not yet ready for us. Few among them would understand our ways. Only a few would keep things safe, and those few are the ones not to be compromised. For many reasons, things shall have to be contained until the right time.
The biggest storms come without warning they say and so true it is in our case. There is no need for intervention as long as their neighboring planets slumber, to hide what they contain would only buy time for Earth. For they are hardly aware of their neighbors. If only they’re prepared for revelations facing them. The future holds a lot in store…

They Are Out There

And so the last of them boarded the ship that would take them to the new world that they’d found where they would survive peacefully for aeons to come.

Life that was known was short lived for the planet had suffered a catastrophy. Oxygen levels in the air plunged down as cold and darkness swept over the earth. The future looked bleak as clouds enveloped the atmosphere. It was time to move. And so we did…. It was the evacuation of the remaining human populous of the Earth.

But Earth is a remarkable planet. Such is the force of life that against all odds, with everything going against the living beings, they still found a way to survive…

This came as a surprise to us. We’ve been flourishing for a billion years, and such is human nature, that over the ages, with new technology replacing the old, some things were forgotten.

The general public forgot all about the planet we once called home. The place where we thrived and helped build this immense world being one of the most developed creatures in the universe.

Over the recent past, we’ve been getting strange signals… Someone did their homework.

There was a mechanism to trace and contact the ones that had been left back on earth.

As I said, the oxygen level in the atmosphere was going low.. people would eventually die of asphyxiation. But the good in us had teams that were ready and studying the universe for those signals.

The human sinus system, when exposed to minute quantities of oxygen, gives out a strange frequency that is common only to human beings and to no other life form. Over the past couple of days, we’ve been getting signals from earth. I did not know what to make of this. For all the previous signals showed no signs of intelligence. But recently we’ve been getting signals that we can comprehend. It seems amazing that our race did survive on the earth. But there’s a problem now.

The signals we’ve been recieving have grown in number. Our early teams went out and brought some survivors out, but the committee in-charge of extra-terrestrial rescues has come to the conclusion that life is sustained and thriving on the earth. This has resulted in us not being able to respond to the signals we’ve been getting. It just isn’t time for us to get into any action. And talks with the leaders of the planet have proven likewise as they don’t want the 2nd generation to know about the 1st generation.

Its only a matter of time before anything is done and contact is made with the survivors…

As for now, it is safe to be satisfied with the knowledge that you aren’t alone in this universe, that we’ve been watching you and we are still watching you… In your time of need, look up at the sky and think out your thoughts. They’re being heard! Good luck!

Some day, we will be united again!

The Laws of God, The Laws of Man

The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Not I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbor to their will,
And make me dance as they desire
With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Of man’s bedevilment and God’s?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
They will be master, right or wrong;
Though both are foolish, both are strong.
And since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn nor to Mercury,
Keep we must, if keep we can,
These foreign laws of God and man.

-Alfred Edward Housman

a Miss

I missed the moon and the stars..
a ray of sunlight…or two?
i don’t exactly remember..
but more than anything, i so missed you, yes..
i have been doing this since..last..august?
no not august..november..yes..NOVEMBER..!
it’s hard to write a poem or a song, when one is missing someone..
and more than that, if you sit down to write one,
its harder to rhyme your words.
it’s like.. pasting that pitch perfect cactus,
on the top of all absurds..
you know..in the process of missing you,
my nothingness has grown busy..
i have tried hard to find you in the hotchy lanes of day,
and in the corners of my vacant dreamstreet..
but none’s too obvious or easy to show you..
and there stops my pen…

i will now go to sleep..i am tired..and my eyes are dizzy..

signal 11:16

Why must I leave home
and strangle myself on this road
that never ends
yet never starts
help me
save myself

-Ali Sultan

Malfeasance

This Parched heart wants not
All the milk of human kindness
Just the dark cold ash
Of your once lit desire for me…

- Neha

why you made a fool of me?

were you not joking then
last night when you said you
never really liked my dance
i mean i thought you liked it
when i danced in fact
i never danced before i met you
you said you liked it and
i worked to improve it but last
night you called it shit could it be
that you were in a bad mood then
in case you were not joking?

-Kunal Goel

On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam

Well I have and in fact
more than one and I’ll
tell you this too

I wrote one against
Algeria that nightmare
and another against

Korea and another
against the one
I was in

and I don’t remember
how many against
the three

when I was a boy
Abyssinia Spain and
Harlan County

and not one
breath was restored
to one

shattered throat
mans womans or childs
not one not

one
but death went on and on
never looking aside

except now and then
with a furtive half-smile
to make sure I was noticing.

-Hayden Carruth

A few shairs [urdu]

Kaash meri zindagi mein tum aaye na hote,

Aankhon mein itne khuwab sajaaye na hote,

Itna dard jo mujhe tum de kar chale gaye,

Koi aya na hota tou yeh zulm dhaya na hota,

Kaash meri tanhai mujhse roothe na hote.

–Sheikha.

Waqt dhoka de gaya mujhe lekin

Tumhari yaadein abhi baaki hai

Kitni jaldi doobta hai suraj aur raat

Doob jaati hai apne hi andhere mein.

–Sheikha.

Isi andhere ujaale mein baatein ki tumse,

Jab parchai lagta tha tumhara paas hona.

–Sheikha.

Ilzaam doun bhi agar tou kis ko doun,
Meri taraf nazar kabhi huwi nahi tumhari,
Jalte hai hum khoobsurti se itna kyun,
Mujh par nazrein tiki nahi tumhari kabhi.

–Sheikha.

Ijaazat ho agar thori der aur ruk jaayun
Saari umar nikl gayi ab saansein baaki hai

–Sheikha.

Intimates

Don’t you care for my love? she said bitterly.

I handed her the mirror, and said:
Please address these questions to the proper person!
Please make all requests to head-quarters!
In all matters of emotional importance
please approach the supreme authority direct! –
So I handed her the mirror.
And she would have broken it over my head,
but she caught sight of her own reflection
and that held her spell bound for two seconds
while I fled.

-D.H.Lawrence

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In Search of Cinderella

From dusk to dawn,
From town to town,
Without a single clue,
I seek the tender, slender foot
To fit this crystal shoe.
From dusk to dawn,
I try it on
Each damsel that I meet.
And I still love her so, but oh,
I’ve started hating feet.

-Shel Silverstein