Like dried flowers that are found between book-pages' fray.❞
अब के हम बिछड़े तो शायद कभी ख़्वाबों में मिलें, — Ahmad Faraz | Ghazal Shayari
Like dried flowers that are found between book-pages' fray.❞
About Ahmad Faraz
Ahmad Faraz was a Pakistani Urdu poet known for his romantic ghazals and political poetry. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by Pakistan and the Hilal-e-Imtiaz. His romantic ghazals are among the most sung compositions in South Asian music.
Born: Kohat, NWFP · Era: 1931–2008 · Specialty: Romantic 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.
More Shayari by Ahmad Faraz
Come again, if only to leave as before.❞
The way dried flowers are found pressed in old books, it seems.❞
I have seen you deeper than any mirror under the sun.
The colours in your eyes are all meant for me,
The pain in your smile is all meant for me.❞
The heart never found the beloved it craved in its veins.
This life is a journey, O Faraz my friend,
Whoever we met on the road asked us to pause till the end.❞
I'm already broken — I can't break once more in heart.
I cannot bear the gaze of your eyes, O Faraz,
How much longer can I protect this wounded heart?❞
But from her memory I never could part.
There is a wound in my heart that will not heal,
I speak her name until the pain I no longer feel.❞
More Ghazal Shayari
we left your lane far more disgraced than that❞
had I lived on longer, this same wait would have gone on.❞
the real question is of the flower — where will the flower go.❞
we'd have called you a saint, were you not fond of wine.❞
after how many more meetings will we become friends again?❞
like a single petal of a rose.❞
and I too had some fondness for the journey❞
and partly the bitterness of circumstance broke it too.❞