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❝I thought the heart was vast —
but it couldn't hold your memory.❞
but it couldn't hold your memory.❞
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🔗मैं ने सोचा था दिल बड़ा है — — Parveen Shakir | Ghazal Shayari
About Parveen Shakir
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.
Born: Karachi, Pakistan · Era: 1952–1994 · Specialty: Love Poetry, Ghazal
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About Ghazal Shayari
Ghazal is the most refined and enduring form in Urdu-Hindi poetry — a series of independent couplets bound by rhyme and refrain. This collection of works by Mirza Ghalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mir Taqi Mir, and Bashir Badr suits readers who want to understand the classical tradition, recite verses aloud, or savor a single sher at a time.
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❝How does one explain why they feel so alone,
The one who was theirs has now become unknown.❞
The one who was theirs has now become unknown.❞
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🔗❝I try so hard to forget you and move on,
Yet in every effort, memory of you is drawn.❞
Yet in every effort, memory of you is drawn.❞
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🔗❝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.❞
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.❞
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❝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.❞
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.❞
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🔗❝That they came to our home — it is God's wonder indeed,
Now I gaze sometimes at them, sometimes at my home in need.❞
Now I gaze sometimes at them, sometimes at my home in need.❞
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🔗❝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.❞
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.❞
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❝We have long heard of Adam's expulsion from paradise, but,
we left your lane far more disgraced than that❞
we left your lane far more disgraced than that❞
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🔗❝It was not in my fate to unite with my beloved,
had I lived on longer, this same wait would have gone on.❞
had I lived on longer, this same wait would have gone on.❞
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❝He is but fragrance, he'll scatter into the winds,
the real question is of the flower — where will the flower go.❞
the real question is of the flower — where will the flower go.❞
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🔗❝These mystic riddles, Ghalib, this eloquence of yours—
we'd have called you a saint, were you not fond of wine.❞
we'd have called you a saint, were you not fond of wine.❞
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🔗❝We who remain strangers after so many meetings,
after how many more meetings will we become friends again?❞
after how many more meetings will we become friends again?❞
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🔗❝What can I say of the softness of her lips—
like a single petal of a rose.❞
like a single petal of a rose.❞
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🔗❝Some people of the city were cruel too,
and I too had some fondness for the journey❞
and I too had some fondness for the journey❞
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🔗❝Partly the world's own kindness broke my heart,
and partly the bitterness of circumstance broke it too.❞
and partly the bitterness of circumstance broke it too.❞
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