❝The moon today asks my opinion, dear, Who looks at it when you yourself are here? With you present, what need is there for the moon above? You are my night and my dawn — my only love.❞
Parveen Shakir was a Pakistani Urdu poet, teacher, and civil servant. She was one of the most celebrated and beloved Urdu poets of the 20th century, known for writing about female emotions, love, and femininity with rare sensitivity and depth.
Heart-touching shayari speaks to life's deeper truths. These verses explore humanity, relationships, and emotion in ways that stay with the reader. Unlike love-focused categories, this one ranges across parents, family, and everyday moments — the kind of shayari that quietly moves whoever reads it.
❝Whether you come or not, spring has arrived, Flowers have stretched and butterflies have thrived. But again and again my eyes turn toward the lane, From which my beloved used to come in refrain.❞
❝You drift like fragrance everywhere, You touch me but never stay there. I've met you but couldn't hold you near, This is the sorrow that will not clear.❞
❝I loved him like a cherished wish I held inside, He forgot me like a dream that faded with the tide. What can I say about life's old tradition this way — Who was meant for me had himself changed on the day.❞