If the flower may not know, the whole garden is aware.❞
पत्ता पत्ता बूटा बूटा हाल हमारा जाने है, — Mir Taqi Mir | Ghazal Shayari
If the flower may not know, the whole garden is aware.❞
About Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir, popularly known as 'Mir', is considered the greatest Urdu poet of the 18th century. Called the 'God of Poetry' (Khuda-e-Sukhan), he wrote about love, loss, and the human condition with unmatched simplicity and emotional depth.
Born: Agra, India · Era: 1723–1810 · Specialty: 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 Mir Taqi Mir
Wait and see what lies ahead, my dear.❞
This sickness of the heart has finally come to its intended end.❞
Like a petal of the rose it slips.
Mir, in those half-open eyes of hers,
All the intoxication of wine stirs.❞
Who can say what measure of lament it's worth?
I had wished to tell her, but alas, in her face,
Who can reveal these secrets in that place?❞
The kohl of her eyes will leave a mark on my heart, forever tendered.❞
That cannot be kindled at will nor quenched at your will.
Someone should come to the beloved's gathering tonight,
Until my tears neither wet nor fail to wet this plight.❞
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.❞