❝I am not as I appear to be,
The way I truly am, none can see.❞
The way I truly am, none can see.❞
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🔗मैं जिस तरह दिखता हूँ, वैसा हूँ नहीं, — Jaun Elia | Ghazal Shayari
About Jaun Elia
Jaun Elia was an Urdu poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar from Amroha, India, who later settled in Karachi, Pakistan. Known for his eccentric lifestyle and nihilistic worldview, his poetry is marked by existential angst, loss, and a dark romanticism.
Born: Amroha, India · Era: 1931–2002 · Specialty: Nihilist, Romantic Poetry
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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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❝I asked her to wait a while,
She glanced back, then walked away with a smile.❞
She glanced back, then walked away with a smile.❞
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🔗❝I am so very tired, O life,
You must be tired of me in this strife.❞
You must be tired of me in this strife.❞
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🔗💔Dard⭐ Featured
❝I have been lonely for so very long,
You too have been lonely for just as long.
Still we two never seem to meet and belong —
What kind of distance is this, what kind of world gone wrong?❞
You too have been lonely for just as long.
Still we two never seem to meet and belong —
What kind of distance is this, what kind of world gone wrong?❞
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🔗❝The world was listening with great keenness and care,
I myself fell asleep while telling my tale there.❞
I myself fell asleep while telling my tale there.❞
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🔗❝I have been extinguished, but I will remain bright,
I am the star of some dark and forgotten night.
The world cannot understand the pain that I bear —
I am a man who belongs to some other time and air.❞
I am the star of some dark and forgotten night.
The world cannot understand the pain that I bear —
I am a man who belongs to some other time and air.❞
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🔗🌟Zindagi⭐ Featured
❝How lethal is the fragrance of your memory's trace,
Every time it arrives, it disturbs and leaves no grace.
It lets me neither come close nor go away free —
Your memory lives only in this in-between for me.❞
Every time it arrives, it disturbs and leaves no grace.
It lets me neither come close nor go away free —
Your memory lives only in this in-between for me.❞
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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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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝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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