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Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
The idea

That at least I could change myself

Is actually not an idea

It's a great enterprise
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
If the priest
Ask me
To put on his clothes
And take part in absolution

I would love to watch the tree
drop its sins one by one

And get surprised and learn
How it becomes a child again
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Sounds are unbidden guests,
Some have invitations

I Keep or don't keep ears doors open
They enter themselves

If I offer them any seats to linger,
It's my choice

But I want my ears to be honest
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Whenever you begin

                     It's the best time

Achievement isn't time bound
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Shake off the blanket of depression
You're a staggering talent
How superbly you can shock the world
Just wait
Time is a bit late
May be he is helping someone somewhere
He favours those
Who prefers silence
Tomorrow is your achievement
Don't squander today
By losing hope
Or thinking it's over
talent is a topaz
Keep it bright
Remember
Any precious stone
Never goes unheeded
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Difficult times
Might pin your face,
Scratch your skins
Hinder the way of your dreams

Remember,
They don't know
Where your hope live
And patience sits

If they know
Remember
Both are locked in
And the key is in your hand
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
She is a blue cup
On a white tray
Honey is to the brim
My lips not pursed
To sip and sip and sip
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Tears that run through our cheeks to handkerchieves

Will reshape into our courage

A little fortitude is enough
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Knowledge is an Arabian horse.

Muscular, sturdy.

Once it runs, runs.

None cannot stop it.

Leave it

At the feet of the hill.

Find it on the zenith.

Knowledge is an Arabian horse.
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
The side effects of loneliness is
It creates laziness in the person
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Hold some dust in your palm
And know the reality of life
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
A few moments with a teacher

Is more than a book of philosophy


They're the ladders to scale achievement
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Thousands have died
Thousands are dying

There is dearth of love

Love is water
Water is love
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Our strength
Increases not by receiving love

            But by giving it
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Loneliness
Is a chair in the woods
The space stretches far and wide
Like a kid on a rope
You're afraid to sit on it
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Love has lost its lustre
Nobody is going to die for it now
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
In this age
When bones are flesh
Shoes, Slippers, skin,
Everything is loose
In the core of heart
One thing remains

Ambition

To look at your portrait
To feel freedom
Of loving you with eyes

Loving you
With changing time
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Marriage is the gate.

That has two doors.

Open this.
Open that.

Both open into a spacious happiness.
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Emptiness
Is a spider

It makes its homes
In every corner

No matter
how wonderful
Is the mind

Some space
Be occupied by
Love-for-mankind
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
The patches of fog
Stitch themselves behind the glass

I can't see the blooms down in the garden
But I believe they're there like stars in the day

Misfortune blurs things, not destroy them
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Failing to understand a person
Forget to go against him for a while
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
The moon shines within me
But your eyes watch only fog
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
My hands
are wands,
not canes,
An armless robin
perches in them
It's dusk.
Spring.
Mangoes are bride.
A riddle.
A panic station.

Desires are chained.
It swings in the cradle.
Raindrops.
Breeze.

A sympathetic act
Is sweeter than honey,
Brighter than a sparkling star,
Lovable than a lovely present.
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
In the field of his mind
He had sown seeds
Of massive neighbourhood

Today I watch a giant oak

Sheep shelter there
When the sun is on rampage
And they wish
To take their feet off the pedestal

Bees hang their cottages

Squirrels' sliding is aplenty

Singers from Pakistan and India
Sing their songs in proximity

I'm transformed
I have a desire for this dreamland villa.
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
If
You're desirous of reading a man

Open his page
When he is silent
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Everything is somehow snoozefest
I'm happy I've imagination
That drops on pages
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Play with your pain
In the veranda
Or in the park
Regardless of what time it's
Let him move freely
And spend much time with it
Until it says I have to go

But don't let him climb
On your shoulders and back
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Somewhere
A place is unoccupied for you
If you don't remove your laziness
It's going to be taken by someone else
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
If you cannot chew my poems

No problem

Chips are very crispy
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
A prayer isn't a fish, floating,
Swimming, sweating, surviving

in the sea.

It's not the parrot, parroting, pleasing others,

But within a boundary.

Yes. It's the breeze, wind, storm,
Blowing everywhere, affecting everyone.
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
I don't promise I will meet you tomorrow
For I cannot promise to myself I will meet to myself
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Thy lips are lemon
Still I wanna kiss them
For I have to live with you

We're married
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
I'm as big as your dream
As the future of your only child
As the prayer changing the course of one's life

My lap is the sea
Water flows out from my each limb

You call in me
Like a a groom to his bride
After the marriage is solemnised
Like a student to study my anatomy
Like a researcher to go deep into me

They stumble upon treasures, intact.

I'm in the pictures everywhere
I'm the meteor gleaming green in the day

I'm what makes Indians feel proud of their country
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
The rain,
If comes out of blue,
Especially during hot days,
Is more than the arrival
Of girlfriend without information
Without any promise
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Falling things receive our likes, dislikes.
Ask the fielder his feelings
to pouch the ball.
The shattered cup tells the mood.
This morning something fell.
An wrapped present.
First snowfall for the lovers.
Everyone cheered.
This morning a different case.
No justification.
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
To read a book
You not need
Heavy hands,
Knife or dagger

A friendship-feelings is the key
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Everyone is engaged in making
Relations with statues shining
Through the face of Facebook

I must be different
I am restoring my relations
With my loved ones
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Imagination

       Is the colour-aroma of rose-literature
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Every mobile screen
behaves like a daffodil
The moment a poem
Appears in a pretty dress
And both the palms get wet
With its fragrance
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
In this 21st century, the age of selfies,
I would tell your smile is cute

And I'm sure
You'd fall in love with me

For people are hungry to hear a single word
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Shifting is a poignant process.
You cannot peel it off with ease.
You bundle clothes, crockery,
Drag articles of wood to vehicle,
Discard old tears--a needful act-

The funeral of emotions.

Our fate is similar,
But mode is different.
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
I smiled
To meet a depressed man

His mood changed
The whole family changed
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
The person
Who has nothing to do

                Is a big threat to society
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
In a state of aloofness
We experience the importance of society

That we miss
Each hour
In the day and night
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Onlookers have a look at the space
And says it's crowded
While the intelligent goes deep, finds his place and then walk comfortably
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
You will not born again
You will not descend on a planet
If you have such thoughts
You are waiting for the frog to fly
If you don't have you're not great too
If you are doing your best
To make each moment count
You're special, very special
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Afternoons are sour creams in the spoons of June

Listen

Your every word is a jelly fish
Strolling in the moonlight

I believe
You won't want me to eat out of spoons
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
War might destroy bodies
But the spirit and desire of living
Is immortal
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Some moments
Spent with a special teacher
In a special evening
Aren't actually spent
But transformed into emiralds
That sparkle in the sky of mind
Mohd Arshad Apr 2019
Stars are perfect metaphors for our joys
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