Ghazal 'Teer-o-Nashtar' by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

Ghazal 'Teer-o-Nashtar' by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem (Posted by Muslim Saleem on September 26, 2010).

Ghazal Fughan-e-Khamosh by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

Ghazal Fughan-e-Khamosh by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem. He had recited this Ghazal on All-India Radio, Lahore's Mushaira in 1945. (Posted by Muslim Saleem on September 26, 2010).

Ghazal Sham-e-Intizar by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

Ghazal Sham-e-Intizar by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem (posted by Muslim Saleem on September 20, 2010)

Ghazal titled Husn-e-Kalam by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

Ghazal titled Husn-e-Kalam by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem. Posted by Muslim Saleem on September 8, 2010.

Shikast-e-Yaas by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

Poem Shikast-e-Yaas by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem posted by Muslim Saleem on September 8, 2010.

'Noor Jahan' by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

'Noor Jahan' by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

(Posted by Muslim Saleem on September 7, 2010)

Nawa-e-Firaq by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

Nawa-e-Firaq by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

This is the tribute paid to Abdul Majeed Salik on his death by Dr. Saleem Wahid Saleem (Posted by Muslim Saleem on September 7, 2010)

Khudayaan-e-Jamhoor by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem is indeed a remarkable poem which takes a dig at the rulers of Pakistan who captured power without elections. Posted by Muslim Saleem on September 6, 2010.

“Loneliness” by Dr. Saleem Wahid Saleem

(This poem was written in English by Dr. Saleem Wahid Saleem. He might have writer other poems also in English but records could not be found. Posted by Muslim Saleem on September 3, 2010)

"Loneliness"

by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

The primeval and eternal

Decree of the Fates

For man upon this earth

Is that he live out his days

In a deep unutterable

Loneliness of the mind

Wherein he can count on none...

Nor kith, nor kin,

Nor friends, nor comrades!

In the silence of the night

A myriad of twinkling stars

Go swimming in space,

Each intent on its own course,

Packed so thick and close

They almost seem to overlap!

But all this close proximity

Is only a delusion:

At the back there lies

An endless sense of separation,

A yawning chasm,

An unbridgeable gulf! Even where

Broods the same torture

Of dreary distance, and the same

Unutterable loneliness of the mind,

(LONELINESS-2)

Whether we live in towns,

Or seek peace in the quiet

Of barren wastes!

For t he primeval and eternal

Decree of the Fates

For man upon this earth

Is that he live out his days?

In a deep, unutterable

Loneliness of the mind

Wherein he can count on none...

Nor kith, nor kin

Nor comrades, nor friends!

On the lonely heaths of live

Forever surge and roll

Pressing throngs, but each wayfarer

Oblivious of others,

Each distracted in his own place:

Craving for friendship,

For love and sympathy,

Which, all the same,

Each refuses to the other!

The heart of each

Is torn and bleeding,

But he bleeds in the secrecy

Of his own breast!

How fares the neighbour,

No one knows;

And cares even less!

For the primeval and eternal

Decree of the Fates For man upon this earth

Is that he live out his day

(LONELINESS-3)

In a deep, unutterable

Loneliness of the mind

Wherein he can count on None---

Nor kith, nor kin,

Nor comrades, nor friends!

Countless souls in the wide

But barren fields of life

Stand with tissues torn

And mangled, each burning

In its own grief...almost

Burnt to a heap of ashes!

They groan from a lashing pain

That springs from a sense

Of vain, deluding joys....

From the ceaseless torment

Of elusive hopes!

The pain of each is all his own,

The grief of each exclusive;

For the primeval and eternal

Decree of the Fates

For man upon this earth

Is that he live out his days

In a deep, unutterable

Loneliness of the mind,

Wherein he can count on None....

Nor kith, nor kin,

Nor comrades, nor friends!

From the sizzling fires

Of an un forgettable torture,

Flowers in the garden

And plants gasp for breath:

At every step beautiful bodies

Bathe in the their own blood....

To beautify themselves!

But who knows? Or who cares?

And thus for ever and ever

The flames shall leap and dance....

For the primeval and eternal

Decree of the fates

For man upon this earth

Is that he live out his days

In a deep, unutterable

Loneliness of the mind,

wherein he can count on None.....

Nor kith, nor kin,

Nor comrades, nor friends!

In the whirling waves

Are millions of isles,

Dotted out we know not where:

Their virgin soil

Has never been pressed

By a human heel;

Their silence has never

Been broken by a human cry

Even such is each human heart...

A voiceless isle,

A dumb smudge of a helpless mass,

Adrift on a heartless sea!

For the primeval and eternal

(Loneliness-4)

Decree of the Fates

For man upon this earth

Is that he live out his days

In a deep, unutterable

Loneliness of the mind,

Nor kith, nor kin,

Nor comrades, nor friends!

He has always like this,

And always like this he'll be....

This creature called Man!

Every grief he has borne like this,

And every grief he will bear!

but into the depths

Of another heart he'll

Never learn to penetrate:

He'll never make it feel for him !

No word of the dumb torture

He carries in his breast

Shall ever rise to his lips...

And no one shall ever hear

His cry of anguish,

For the primeval and eternal

Decree of the Fates

For man upon this earth

is that he live out his days

In a deep , unutterable

Loneliness of the mind,

Wherein he can count on none....

nor kith , nor kin,

Nor comrades, nor friends!

"Aahni Azm" peom by Dr Saleem Wahid Saleem

Posted by Muslim Saleem on September 2, 2010