❝I learned this from life —
every bond breaks one day.
But bonds formed from the heart —
even when broken, remain connected.❞
every bond breaks one day.
But bonds formed from the heart —
even when broken, remain connected.❞
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🔗मैंने ज़िंदगी से यह सीखा कि, — Jaun Elia | Nazm 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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About Nazm Shayari
Nazm is a Hindi-Urdu poetic form that tells a single, continuous story or idea from start to finish — unlike the ghazal's independent couplets. Drawing on Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Allama Iqbal, Gulzar, and Sahir Ludhianvi, this collection rewards a slower, more attentive read.
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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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❝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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❝My longing rises to my lips as a prayer,
O God, may my life be like a candle's flame,
may the world's darkness be dispelled by my breath,
may my glow bring light to every place.❞
O God, may my life be like a candle's flame,
may the world's darkness be dispelled by my breath,
may my glow bring light to every place.❞
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🔗📝Nazm⭐ Featured
❝Better than the whole world is our Hindustan,
we are its nightingales, this is our garden,
if we are in foreign lands, our heart stays in the homeland,
know us to be there too, wherever our heart is.❞
we are its nightingales, this is our garden,
if we are in foreign lands, our heart stays in the homeland,
know us to be there too, wherever our heart is.❞
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🔗📝Nazm⭐ Featured
❝We shall see,
certainly we too shall see,
that promised day,
which is written on eternity's tablet,
when these towering mountains of tyranny and cruelty
will blow away like tufts of cotton.❞
certainly we too shall see,
that promised day,
which is written on eternity's tablet,
when these towering mountains of tyranny and cruelty
will blow away like tufts of cotton.❞
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🔗📝Nazm⭐ Featured
❝From the grapes of tender feelings I have brought today this wine,
beloved, with my own hands I shall pour you the cup today,
let me first offer it to you, then the world shall receive its blessing,
before all others, my tavern of wine welcomes you first.❞
beloved, with my own hands I shall pour you the cup today,
let me first offer it to you, then the world shall receive its blessing,
before all others, my tavern of wine welcomes you first.❞
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🔗📝Nazm⭐ Featured
❝This leprous daybreak, this dawn mauled by night,
this is not that dawn for which we had waited,
this is not that dawn with the longing for which,
friends had set out, believing we'd find it somewhere.❞
this is not that dawn for which we had waited,
this is not that dawn with the longing for which,
friends had set out, believing we'd find it somewhere.❞
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🔗❝Beyond the stars there are yet more worlds,
there are yet more trials of love to face,
these skies are not empty of life,
here there are hundreds more caravans still to come.❞
there are yet more trials of love to face,
these skies are not empty of life,
here there are hundreds more caravans still to come.❞
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🔗❝Some of my belongings still lie with you,
some rain-soaked days of the monsoon are kept there,
and a night wrapped inside one of my letters lies there too,
extinguish that night, return to me my things.❞
some rain-soaked days of the monsoon are kept there,
and a night wrapped inside one of my letters lies there too,
extinguish that night, return to me my things.❞
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🔗❝Sometimes a thought crosses my mind,
that had my life passed in the soft shade of your tresses,
it might have flourished, might have bloomed green,
rather than this darkness that is my life's destiny.❞
that had my life passed in the soft shade of your tresses,
it might have flourished, might have bloomed green,
rather than this darkness that is my life's destiny.❞
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