Poetry شاعری

If words are a means to communicate, then poetry is the zenith of expression. Since adolescence I've felt the curiosity to discover the difference between what is a mere sentence and what is poetry. My dear late father and I spoke of this idea often and it was eventually our conversations that awakened an insatiable hunger for poetic expression in me.

I feel that poetry truly takes one to the depth of one’s being and touches the real person hidden within, the person that the ideas of worldliness conceal.

After understanding the idea, I want to convey, I decide the form of poetry it must be expressed in. It can then come out in the form of a song or a nazm or a ghazal. And so, the journey begins, sometimes it takes 2-3 hours and sometimes it takes days, weeks or months to write a single shair. Ideas stir inside, there is an avalanche of emotions, sometimes they make me uncomfortable or even nervous. Yet, if the more time I spend alone, closed off to the world in my solitude, the better poetry forms.

Below are some of my selected work for your consideration. I hope you enjoy reading and sharing them.