इबारतें (5)

इबादतें कुबूली गयी हैं कुछ,
इबारतें मगर आमादा हैं,
किस्से दर्ज़ करने पे,

मेरे हज की गलियों के नक्श,
बड़े नए नज़र आते हैं,
कच्चे रास्तों पे,
कोरी बजरी बिखेरी है शायद,

पन्ने अपनी गिनतियों में मशगूल हैं,
और इबारतें खुद को कुरेदने में,
इबादतें बेलफ़ज़ हैं,  
मगर गलियां चल रही हैं, बदल रही हैं,

इबादतें नयी उमड़ेंगी मगर,
तब इबारतें भी संजीदा होंगी,
मेरे हज की गलियों के नक्श फिर बदलेंगे,
और पन्नो की सिलवटें फिर बढ़ेंगी!!  
   

Fifth installment of my beloved IBARATEIN series is here - this time after 7 months. A lot happened in this while,  life changing decisions, those which can't be undone! But Ibaratein will go on - no matter what is going on....!!! 

Read Ibaratein 4 + Ibaratein 3 + Ibaratein 2+ Ibaratein 1 here!! 

इबारतें : Writing
इबादतें: Prayers

आमादा: Adamant 
नक्श:Map

बेलफ़ज़: Speechless 
मयस्सर :Available 

असमंजस

@kaveeshaklicks #insta

असमंजस हैं बड़े,
किन धूप छांव में हम आ खड़े
शिकवे हैं या शिकवे न होने के गिले
इतने खामोश क्यूँ हैं सिलसिले...?

कब से हुए यहीं हम ठहरे,
न हम बदले न तुम बदले,
फिर भी हम असमंजस में पड़े ..;

मायूसी और मुस्कुराहटें दोनों नहीं,
बस ख़ामोशी है और कुछ नहीं,
उलझे उलझे दिन हैं सादी सादी रातें,
दोनों वही हैं मगर दोनों चुप खड़े;

असमंजस हैं बड़े...!!!

Beep Beep – It’s me, LOVE!!

 

Tasks are multiplying, new gadgets to be entertained, new news to digest , remain update, eat healthy, stay fit, stay cheerful, trying to leave a sparkle everywhere we pass by – there is so much to do but hours in the day remain the same!! Modern life and lifestyle has brought all this with it. And just when we were about to call it a day- booom…. “love” happens!!

Extra zoom shot of a switchboard #Kaveesha 

Love was supposed to be telepathy, a connection which existed beyond a digital beep on the smartphone. Well now, it is, what it was not!  Love is a beep these days. The more the beeps, the more the expression, the more the love and thus more the illusion. When cupid looked down at earth with faces dug in the phones, he must have thought of simplifying all the complex phenomena of love. 

Thus love became directly proportional to the length of chat history.

Let’s say, love is equivalent to the number of beeps, having said that, have we tried feeling the same love in absence of those beeps? If you do … congratulations! you might be in real love (or atleast the illusion of the same) but if you don’t, try this out – “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”

When love is quick and convenient as per uber lifestyles, recognizing the real one would be quite a task. Ask that love to disappear for a while or just switch to a feature phone for a couple of days. You will have some analysis in hand at the end of the day.

We are human beings with even shorter memory spans these days. What remains on top of the mind becomes the center of interest. In this situation, giving time to realize that cupid is throwing its arrows on you might be a bit difficult. Being in constant touch can illicit feelings for anybody – I will say again – “anybody”. Please don’t do that to yourself. Take eyes off that 5.5inch HD screen and lay them on him. He might be looking at you!!  But if he is also eyeing the phone, dude, you are wasting hell lot of time here.

PS- Also do the ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’ test before you get into a commitment, it might just open your eyes and save you from feeling stupid afterwards.

The Night Roads

Glistening and calm,
Tired from the day and stretching their arms,
The long curves of the empty roads,
And us breaking their little nap

The midnight trees bend to make a little love,
And the breeze sets in just the perfect mood,
Neon dividers radiate even more,
And us diving through the glorious slope,

The night was deep and without any moon,
Only them and us and a little song,
We let them go back to the nap as we pass
And us riding further, stirring their pause!




The next time you go for a midnight ride, carry this little thought with you, 
You might be disturbing silence of many, let them make their love, let them unite with the peace. 

अभी बाकी है

अश्क़ सबूत हैं,
तेरे हिस्से का इश्क अभी बाकी है;
रश्क़ जो किये थे तुझसे,
उनका हिसाब अभी बाकी है;
ज़िन्दगी पड़ी है बहुत,
ये साथ यहीं तक बस हुआ...,
शायद यहाँ से आगे भी हो....;
थोड़ी आस अभी बाकी है!!


Because A lot happens and then Poetry happens!!


----And juts the next day , ABHI BAAKI HAI gets featured in this.....Pasting a screenshot!! :D

Ending 2014!

It’s the last day of this year 2014 today, right now as I sit in office desperately waiting to go home, I thought might as well put my pen down for a while after posting these last two creations of 2014! 

Though I wrote them down a day back or two, when I post this right now, I have newer emotions attached to it. It’s strange how poetry can be so flexible to provide meaning to different situations in life and sound different every time you read it depending on the state you are in right now!

1st Oil Painting: My Moon & the Sun

जब दो रूहों के मुस्तक़बिल ,

एक लम्हे में मयस्सर होते हैं; 

ईमान बदलते हैं, 

मगर जज़्बात वही रहते हैं; 

मुकम्मल हों यूँ ख्वाहिशें, 

इबादत यही रहेगी हमेशा; 

थोड़ी न रोज़ाना 

कश्मकश के आयाम जानिब होते हैं! 

Glossary:

मुस्तक़बिल – Fate, fortunes

मयस्सर- Available

ईमान- Intentions

जज़्बात- Emotions

मुकम्मल- Successful

ख्वाहिशें- Desires

इबादत- Prayer

जानिब- Face to face

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ख़लिश न बसे  अश्क़ों में 

रश्क़ न हो लफ़्ज़ों में,

जब भी ज़िन्दगी मामूली सा भी मौका दे 

भींच लो दोनों हाथों से ,

क्योंकि, ख़लिश खता है, 

और इस खता का मुआवज़ा मुनासिब नहीं!  

Glossary:

ख़लिश - Regrets

रश्क़- Complaint

खता- Mistake

मुआवज़ा- Compensation

मुनासिब- Possible 

At the end, pasting my personal wishes to all those who kept reading and motivating me!! 

Oil on Paperboard- "Two of us" 

Have a great productive and arty year all of you! 

More Love, More celebrations, More Poetry, More Colors, More Emotions and therefore More Love...!!! 

- Kaveesha

Please help me remember how it felt like being in love!

I am out of it currently.

Love used to special, warm and most importantly, gave chills in my belly. Now, it’s more of a routine, comfort zone and doesn't give anything to my belly anymore.

As a confession note, I would say: it has annoyed the bejesus out of me.

There are days when I don’t care about the heart-balance but there are days when I do, and desperately want to remember how it felt like being in love? Because I faintly reminisce that when I used to be in love, it was certainly a warm feeling. Not everything around used to be annoying, I didn’t feel the need to meditate or distract to calm myself down. Expectations were not mortified and dates were not just digits or fruit but moments! Now that I am out of it, I want to call it a phase and stop worrying about it. I like to tell myself that this all mayhem will pass and I shall reunite with the belly-butterflies. But remotely, I don’t think that’s going to happen.

Maybe I have saturated, even tired, of having loved so much in so many years gone by. Maybe I just need some break or change or just a neutral phase in between my in-love and not-in-love phases! Maybe it’s the consistency of the same presence or just the very comfortable comfort zone.  I am not certain of the solution strategy but certain that I would like to feel it all again!

Because at the end, love should live - And that’s all that matters!

"इश्क बदलता रहे कोई हर्ज़ नहीं;
इस मुकाम पे आकर लगता है के शायद उसका जिंदा रहना ज्यादा ज़रूरी था!"

Scar

A Scar

A Stitch

A Twitch, 

A History, 

A Mystery

A Story, 

A Pain

A Remembrance 

A Resurrection, 

A Memory,

A Story

A Scar..!! 

PS- Scars are sexy to have! Coz they carry a history, a story and something else than usual eyes/lips to remember in a face! \

PSS- I Have One! 

क्यों कर

क्यों कर सुख की चिंता है
क्यों कर मुस्कुराहटों की अभिलाषा है
जहाँ स्थायी- अस्थायी स्वयं अस्थिर हैं
वहां क्यों कर स्थिरता की कामना है,


जब कोई भी इस जगत में
पूर्णतयः निर्दोष नहीं
वहां क्यों एक तिल रहित चित्त की पिपासा है



विलक्षण होकर भी क्या होगा
जो होना है, अंत वही होगा
न जान पाओगे सीमाओं को,
न ही लांघ पाना मुनासिब होगा;
फिर क्यों कर सब कुछ जान लेने की इच्छा है


चिरंजीव सुख सिर्फ एक ढकोसला है

जानते हुए भी,

क्यों कर मुस्कुराहटों की अभिलाषा है??




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खेद सहित,
कवीषा!!

Love in Social Media Times – PDA

PDA- Public Display of Affection: sounds cheesy! Right??  But sometimes it becomes imperative to do that!

With the digitization of everything and all of us living in our own small worlds, social media has become the new lanes where you stroll hand in hand by posting pictures or posting lovey dovey comments on each other’s posts and thus, the PDA!

Everything about PDA comes with a long train of criticism as well. There are tons of articles which tell you in how many ways the couples are just gross if they express love to each other in public. I have been part of that community as well, and more because I think, till then I wasn't getting any myself. 

Doing PDA in just the right limits can keep you off from social criticism as well as help to build your bond stronger.

·       With no ‘Good Morning’ messages ritual now, you wake up to a notification that your ‘louve’ has dropped a super sweet comment on your picture – not just admiring but how that sweetness has kept him stuck to you all these years- morning made right then and there!

·        Mutual friends and those reading every single comment of your pictures also get to know that the bond is going strong! This also goes for the secret admirers who are still secretly hoping for your break up.

·        Take it or not, real life compliments come rare!  In that case a well edited picture can help you get some much needed admiration :P  #selfesteemboost

·        Once you do any activity on any post, you automatically ‘follow’ that post and hence receive all the further activity. This might also give you about 5-10mins of discussion in your daily telephonic ritual especially when you have been in love for too many years and already drained out of topics.

·       It gives a sense that your better half is overall interested in your life – when half your life is spent sitting in front of a computer. And off course you can also get to know their other friends which will only add two more twinkles in their eyes that you care enough about them

·        You just keep feeling you are still in love!

But as I have also been a part of the hater’s community, there is also a little piece of advice

Word of Caution  

·         DON’T OVERDO IT! Love is not what is there for public display in your social online world but a little expression of it shows the commitment and keeps the life spiced up!

·         KEEP IT RARE! Keeping it rare will also keep the value of your compliment and the surprise along alive. Just doing it on every post will only irritate and you will lose that precious mental admiration in revert.

·         DON’T SPAM please for God’s sake!  People hate it when they are personally going through a rough love phase themselves and all they get to see on their feed is couples getting all cuddly – be human!

 So, PDA – because it’s as important as holding hands in public to make your beau safe and loved !!

PS- Once more I want to say – DON’T OVERDO IT!