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Jaihoon-poems Archive
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Love is neither free nor fair
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No CommentsInspired at Rawdha Shareef, Madina -
Apology wounds Love, deeper
Posted on March 30, 2013 | No CommentsLovers treasure love and revere its pain -
Why need an Excuse?
Posted on March 26, 2013 | No CommentsLovers need no excuse to praise their Beloved -
Love: The Mirror for Beauty
Posted on March 18, 2013 | No CommentsBeauty lies neither in the object nor in the onlooker Nay, it rests in the love-image that appears in eyes -
Life is now Un-just like that
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsTruth lost it’s friends Peace become unknown Art’s become an intel*’ fart Life’s fest today, o Jaihoon- Un-just like that! -
Until…
Posted on December 20, 2012 | 1 CommentA poem written en route from Alexandria, Egypt , after visiting tomb of Imam Busiri -
The Scent of Civilization
Posted on December 13, 2012 | No CommentsFrom the womb of Time came a cry- It seemed the decree was to be now or never The cry reached upto the sky and beyond Stars and meteorites wondered about its fate -
Gaza : A Prank of Blood and Bank
Posted on November 21, 2012 | No CommentsGaza is the shame on our times and thoughts Blood-thirsty Ma-Gogs has yet to be quenched Gaza is the work of blood and bank Of Qabeel and Qarun an evil prank -
Not a scar on Beloved’s House
Posted on October 26, 2012 | 1 Comment... Even as HE let His House be destroyed Swore He to have His Beloved’s preserved Neither Tyrants nor Imposters can dare To stain His Beloved’s House even by a scar -
Curiosity in Love is Forgiven
Posted on September 1, 2012 | No CommentsHow could I then ask? How could I not ask? To ask or not ask- Was the question to my self I asked! As I fell asleep in the bed of doubt And wrapped I my heart in shame Loomed then in my dream The Immortal Love-Saint of Rum... -
HIS Abode, My SourceCode
Posted on August 27, 2012 | 1 CommentI’m a lifeless rock HIS Rain causes it to break And then the Spring of Love flows The Breeze of Poetry in me blows -
Thy name is Love!
Posted on August 26, 2012 | No CommentsPortion of Magic Passion of Mind Poison of Body. Ah! Thy name is Love! -
Love Loquacious
Posted on August 1, 2012 | No CommentsI’m a tongue on my own My speech is for all one When I appear on the lips Language elsewhere runs -
The Merciful Tyrant
Posted on July 17, 2012 | No CommentsI feel safer in the prison of your fear Scared I’m of freedom of my own desires Restrain me with your Love Set me not free to perish... gearing up for the Holy Month -
Destination Madina of My Poetic Buraq
Posted on June 14, 2012 | 1 CommentMy pen can write about Mim alone Any else, its face shall away frown I’ll be abased if I attempt to praise any other My Poetic Buraq obeys not if I ride it elsewhere -
How could then his Lord NOT exist?
Posted on April 23, 2012 | 1 CommentIt is inevitable for Allah to exist as no one else could create a magnificent creation like the Holy Prophet -
Love: The Key & Plea to GOD
Posted on April 1, 2012 | No Comments“A Seeker needs no boat or bridge Time and Space cannot him hedge Time may get old, but- A seeker only gets bold Love is his key To God his plea". Khidr the eternal traveler's advice to a eager seeker. -
My Sayyid Shihab Deserves the Real Clap
Posted on March 12, 2012 | 2 CommentsSuch is the job that deserve the real clap, True, not everyone can match my Sayyid Shihab -
The Self has no place in Love
Posted on February 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe Self has no place in Love On selfish soil its seed’s forbidden to sow Every precious thing in life has a price to be paid Love, the greatest, demands your Self be low-laid -
Rainbows that Withstand the Rain of Time
Posted on February 21, 2012 | No CommentsYa Rabb! What is that you grant your friends Their tales bring in us these tears The wind of a single moment in their lives Causes the fall of our sense’s leaves -
Truth : Share if you Care
Posted on February 21, 2012 | No CommentsShare the heavenly wine Think not it is ‘only mine’ If you love your enemy like Hussein Then utter it to save the people and king True is indeed a wonderful thing To share and care is no other such a thing -
The Sufi Booklover who waited on the Roadside
Posted on January 1, 2012 | 1 CommentHe walked daily across corridors of dominion Yet not for once he craved ever for a position Books were truly his dearest friends He took them along while on long distance -
The Eternal Connection
Posted on December 24, 2011 | No CommentsNeither cables nor batteries Neither light nor aiwaves Even in my dead sleep YOU are a call away -
The Carnival of my Solitary Market
Posted on December 24, 2011 | No CommentsYour love, the tag on my soul Your desire, the weapon in my battle Be it on earth or paradise, For sure, I shall not be driven away -
The Old Lady Merchant who Purchased Paradise
Posted on December 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe pebbles under her feet worth more Than the pearls on paradise’ shore With love and wealth for his beloved The old lady Merchant bought the paradise A tribute to Lady Khadija (ra), the wife of Holy Prophet, and the first believer in Islam. -
For The First Time
Posted on December 10, 2011 | No CommentsMajnun kept his senses aside When he saw Leila for the first time The sky began to cry with excitement When Moon appeared for the first time Alas! The first time is indeed the testing time Of Love and Loyalty, only time’s the first time -
Justify my Worship
Posted on October 2, 2011 | No CommentsWe have continued to worship the Lord from our early days. However, the personal reason for doing so is often not discussed -
A Love-Note
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No CommentsYour love, most precious, No other dish, so delicious This life, too less, My love, to you confess Since I drank from your river, Healed I am of my solitary fever -
Yes, in Muhammad is my belief
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 1 CommentThe only proof for our belief in the hereafter is that they were told by the Trustworthy Prophet. -
A Distant Bosom
Posted on July 2, 2011 | No CommentsEach finds its abode near Close-by for each other to hear But O my restless heart Why beat you in a distant bosom? -
LORD’s the Limit of Man
Posted on June 24, 2011 | No CommentsHumanity is in constant search for the ultimate to quench his unending thirst for the Perfect. Each invention of Man has made him feel superior. Landing on the moon or demystifying the secrets of atom were seen with pride. Yet, there are other possibilities far greater than ever imagined. -
Beloved, the Inevitable
Posted on June 20, 2011 | No CommentsThis world is as good as naught Had not his Light been naught He is ultimate brick in the Tower of Life He is the Gem in the Ocean of Existence -
For Her Patient Love
Posted on May 26, 2011 | No CommentsRealized I not your affection Inflicted upon you the solitary affliction You kept open your eyes in longing For my single glimpse you kept staring Yet, I threw upon you thorns of pain And you gifted me with roses of love... -
Death is her name, Separation is her game
Posted on May 19, 2011 | No CommentsShe comes uninvited/To have lovers frightened/Nightmare of life is she,/Pirate of Lovers’ sea is she/Ridicule of love, her hobby/She cares not for any lobby -
Mim: My Weapon, My Slogan, My Revolution
Posted on March 15, 2011 | No CommentsYour love is my weapon My slogan, my revolution I have exhausted my words My throat is dry in your praise But to tell my love Have I no other choice... -
Forbidden Promises
Posted on March 9, 2011 | 1 CommentTo escape from one Rose I ran into thousand thorns To keep a single oath I belied a hundred truths I swore to not swear at all Loyalty to her is betrayal of all... -
i & YOU
Posted on March 5, 2011 | 1 CommentI am the Eye, You are my vision / I am the Cloud, You are my Rain / I am the Candle, You are my Light/ I am the Song, You are my Melody -
Twice Bitten: The Kabul Deaths & Mosul Funerals
Posted on February 23, 2011 | No CommentsOn the atrocities and betrayal by neo imperialist forces. After the devastation is complete, the Imperialists, ironically, then call on other nations for rebuilding the destroyed nation. -
Who then is your true ally? Asks Tombstone to the Corpse
Posted on January 26, 2011 | No CommentsYou lived with her for decades six or more You shall lie beneath me for 100s of years Who then is your true ally? I or she – Realize, be not shy -
A Reason to Love
Posted on January 13, 2011 | No CommentsYou do have a reason For my love and liaison Yet she is for me the dearest With every good is she fairest -
The Mirror for Truth
Posted on January 9, 2011 | 1 CommentMustafa is the Majestic Mirror / Where Truth reflects sans any error / He bears witness / For Truth’s essence / It could only be Truth / If flows from his sweet mouth -
Prayer for an Atheist
Posted on January 9, 2011 | 2 CommentsYour road is less than ten decades Mine is infinite in number of days Hell and heaven are for you naught All my actions are by its strings caught -
Thus Warned The Puppet Master
Posted on January 9, 2011 | No CommentsWhen we 'leak', It's threat of state security When you 'leak' It's right to information... On the one sided justice of Neo-Imperialists -
If you saw me, you have seen her too
Posted on December 28, 2010 | 2 CommentsOne day to my heart made I an appeal, ‘Tell me about the one you did conceal. It replied... -
The Lighthouse of my Reason
Posted on December 9, 2010 | 1 CommentIt is from ‘You’ / My ‘I’ springs its existence / It is your Light / Locked in the vault of my being... -
UAE : Like her, no mother other
Posted on December 1, 2010 | No CommentsThey say love has no scent or hue/ And this say is indeed true/ But truths are to experience/Not to be taken in ignorance/Yes, UAE is my Foster Mother/Like her, no mother other.. -
A Sin to Count Love
Posted on November 27, 2010 | No CommentsOnly a thing which ends has numbers Love, but, burns ever without embers Love began before we were ‘being’ It extends even after we go ‘un-being’ -
Bless not, if You are not
Posted on November 8, 2010 | No CommentsThe slave is not comfortable with the blessings if they are diverting his heart from the Giver -
Love is such a thing
Posted on November 7, 2010 | No CommentsLovers are ready to suffer and sacrifice anything and everything for their loved ones. This makes love the rarest of all feelings on earth -
KNOW Thy Beloved [The Secret of Abu Bakr’s faith]
Posted on October 10, 2010 | No CommentsKnow thy Beloved/‘Tis what I say/To Love thy Beloved/Every single day... says Abu Bakr asSiddiq in a dream
