Ravi Kopra Poems

kitni muddat ho gayi hai mehmaani yaar di kiti si
bazm wich baitH k shraab pyaalaN wich piti si

kalaije de lakhaN lakhaN tukariyaN nu hun main joR riha haaN
...

Oblivious to me
you fled to a chaste silence

Today
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You do not care if
you live or die
when in love.
If beauty of your
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To be always in her thoughts, is my desire
To go home as the evening falls, is my desire

When asked to call an idiot an accomplshed man
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By deeds we make our lives
our heaven or hell too;
In our dusty nature
neither is there a light
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ye duniya sub tamasha hai
har aurat, har aadmi sub khel kari hain
yahan aatay hain, chalay jate hain.
har koi apne saat khel karta hai
...

Ek puranay mulk k musafir se meri mulakaat hue
Us ne kaha: registaan main, bina pate, bina kamar se
do jhaangain khaDi hue hain aur in k paas rait main
ek toota pathar ka chera paDa hua hai
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'Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.'
-Pablo Neruda

Aaj raat maiN likh raha hooN
...

I have this feeling of
restlessness as if waves of
confusion are overtaking me
tears fill my eyes
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Ten years now separate us
since my wife's death
I do not often think of her
still I can't forget
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