Music makes Firoj Ahmed cryptic – in both body and soul. His words, usually strong, tricky and profuse, an undercurrent of a torrential mountain stream, become sparse in the times he is leaning back in his chair, hearing one of his many cassettes play – cassettes that are kept in three wooden baskets lying on […]
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10 REASONS NOT TO DATE AN ENTREPRENEUR – A TONGUE IN CHEEK RESPONSE
A Tongue-In-Cheek response to the article “Ten Reasons To Date An Entrepreneur” doing the rounds of FB. See the original article here: http://love-not-fear.org/2011/12/02/ten-reasons-to-date-an-entrepreneur/Guidelines: 1) This article is not to be taken seriously by either entrepreneurs or sane people 2) Entrepreneurs shall take a pledge of not murdering me before reading this. Full Disclosure: I am […]
SUICIDE, SYLVIA (2002)
I speak no word Vainly try In sounds of albino hues Chequered cries Green, red and green Black, red and black Blue, red and blue Interspersed with love, hate and farewell thee sighs And pain that lies Within me, you and all Forever If I do speak It’s in sounds of breaking wings […]
COME WITH ME (2003)
Let me walk in a trance Or come with me to the road’s end For I won’t see the stars When the dusk falls, covering the bluish whole Beyond the embers Burning, swirling Here, And there I see nothing. Let me drown in the sea Or swim with me to the shore For I […]
YOU RELIGION, ME MODERNITY? (2003)
He traveled distances Between moon and sun Between harlot and nun Between day and night Between darkness and light And called himself a religion He is still traveling distances Between lungs and heart Between jogging and art Between love and life Between mistress and wife Between breeze and smoke Between milk and coke […]
VASES OF RHYME (2001)
Vases of rhyme Upturned on wavy hills Of chords and strings By a wily cloud Flying on imaginary wings The rhymes float down On a silvery rill Of words sublime In the eternal Dell of time Lined on the sides By the variegated ream Of emotions Sewn together In flawless seams Swathing his Unspoken […]
TIME, THE MOLTEN GLASS (2003)
The heart seeks A brief interlude In the flow of Time the molten glass To see her reflection As if In the pristine waters of innocence Or through ignorance The hueless lens Without flaws Without anguish Without affection Without noise Without cadence And not when The chiaroscuro Of love and hate Of joy […]
THE THORNS OF A ROSE (2003)
The restless doors Close In spring On a budding rose That echoes The cry Of the lonely hunter Passing by Still the river flows But dark and quiet And not quite As it was In summer A brook Gay and sprite A frothy white And knew not The woes That comes of carrying The […]
WHAT RIVER IS THIS (2002)
What river is this The waters so dark It narrows itself Before embracing the sea What sea is this With a hue that blinds With waves that bind In chains of duality What nectar is this That sucks the bee And snuffs petal by petal The garden’s beauty
YEH SHAAM MASTAANI (RECREATED LYRICS)
Yeh shaam mastaani, madhosh kiye jaayeMujhe dor koi kheenche, teri ore liye jaaye Baahon mein tere, hai ek bheena nashaaRukhsat hoke tu yun, na de mujhe sazaaMeri hansi, meri khushi, teri ek haan se aaj mil jaaye Yeh shaam mastaani, madhosh kiye jaaye,Mujhe dor koi kheenche, teri ore liye jaaye Tera bheega badan, teri behki nazarKatthai aankhen teri, […]