SOUL SURVIVOR

Only you know how
I saved you
From the concentration camp
Of my life
You are the only survivor
Of my personal Auschwitz
There can be no poetry after this holocaust

PLAGIARISM

I am getting many hate-mails
Claiming and blaming -
Let me declare
Once for all
Yes! I am your plagiarized copy.
I steal from you
Like an amateur writer,
Whatever I say
You've already said,
Whatever I do, it is yours.
But, if the readers look
Carefully
My every emotion has
A parentheses of your name
My soul has all the references:
Your name
Ibid ad infinitum

SAFARNAMA

Tumhari aankhoun se uth kar

Tumhari Kashmiri naak se ho kar

Tumharey honthon tak aatey aatey

Mai dou jahan tay kar leta hoon

COIFFURE

Kabhi aisa karo
Jis tarah zulf bandhtey ho
Mujhe baandh lou

DIFFÉRANCE

Every time I
Look at your face
I feel
I have not
Written my best poem yet