Autophony

कभी तेरे दीदार से मचली थी यादें | अब तड़‌पती रहती हैं मसली हुई यादें || कभी तेर आँखों में खो जाती थी साँसें | अब तलाश‌ती रहती हैं मसली हुई यादें || गूँजती जब हँसी तेरी, निखर जाती हवाएँ | अब तरस‌ती रहती हैं मसली हुई यादें || तेरे वायदे तेरे बातों से बान्धे थे सपने | अब बीख़‌र‌ती रहती हैं मसली हुई यादें || मुस्कुराता था रामेश, पनपती आशाएँ | अब सिसक‌ती रहती हैं मसली हुई यादें || (re-edited a bit) यह कृति उमर बहुभाषीय रूपांन्तरक की मदद से देवनागरी में टाइप की गई है|

Tuka mhane: आम्हां घरी धन शब्दांचीच रत्नें | शब्दांचीच शस्त्रें यत्न करुं || शब्द चि आमुच्या जीवांचे जीवन | शब्दें वांटूं धन जनलोकां || तुका म्हणे पाहा शब्द चि हा देव | शब्द चि गौरव पूजा करुं || Translation (by Dilip Chitre, the renowned Marathi poet): Words are the only Jewels I possess Words are the only Clothes that I wear Words are the only food That sustains my life Words are the only wealth I distribute among people Says Tuka Witness the Word He is God I worship Him With my words My own transcreation: If you open my jewel-box, you will only find words If you raid my castle, only my words will defend me All I need to live upon, is the magic of words All my charity is done through my words Behold The Word: The Word is my only God Worship It: it is the beginning, it is the end

Seed pods straining tense, On the first splash shall explode. Summer waits for rain.

December morals: Time dies, time cycles again. New things will happen.

November twilight like the year's forsaken cause. Endings agonise.

October goes from verdant to yellow to brown. All things must decay.

Bappa Morya comes visiting in September. Revelry is peace.

Floods of joy or tears as August rain so chooses. Water: life and death.

Puddles delight me though city folk just plod on. Rain defines July.

It is now time to buy uniforms and raincoats. June explodes in green.

Hot hotter hottest. May vacation trains run full. Home beckons the sick.

Hot hotter hottest. May eagerly seeks rain clouds. Heat boils embarrass.

All Fools' Day begins the new financial year's hopes. April blooms delight.

Many worries plague a sweating tropical March. Income-tax bothers.

Hopes not extinguished flicker in February. Resolutions break.

It's said time cycles anew every January. Beginnings excite.

लोग हमें देखकर हंसते हैं, कहते हैं देखो जा रहा है ज़माने को बदलनेवाला ठेकेदार‌ हम उनसे ख़ैर‌ इतना कहना चाहते हैं शायरों ने भी छोड दिया तो कौन होगा ज़माने का ज़िम्मेदार? यह कृति उमर बहुभाषीय रूपांन्तरक की मदद से देवनागरी में टाइप की गई है|

ना क‌ब्र‌ गाढ़े गढ़‌ती है ना आग जलाये जलती है तेरे मुहिब्ब की इबादत है ना लाख़ मिटाये मिटती है यह कृति उमर बहुभाषीय रूपांन्तरक की मदद से देवनागरी में टाइप की गई है|

Big frightening words Make doctors feel Important. But they are just words.

Joy unshared with you Is a flowerless summer. Incompleteness pricks.

when you are with me Cold loneliness shall vanish. Spring erupts again. (Can haiku have more than one kigo?)

I saw somebody in the train today And the mind immediately started off: Knock! Knock! Who's there? Sabzi. Er...Sabzi Who? Sabzi Gurkha! I suppressed the giggles. But the stereotypes continue to live.

At times it's Zen, but when I wait upon your voice silence always hurts.

She just resembles. This autumn heart skips a beat. Old love always burns.

Silence. Sometimes Zen. A winter of despondence that forever hurts.

बर्फी के घर में शादी है, दुल्हा उसका लड्डू है, माला उसकी किशमिश है, चूडी उसकी काजू है, बादाम उसकी बाली है, चाँदी की उसकी चुनरी है! यह कृति उमर बहुभाषीय रूपांन्तरक की मदद से देवनागरी में टाइप की गई है|

“Remove the Ganpati from main door. Move the god on the left to the right. Move the god on the east to the south. Do this. Do that. It will bring prosperity. Paint your toilet yellow. Keep cupboards on opposite walls. Shift your stamp-cabinet to southwest. That will remove negative energy from house. You are keeping many gods in house. It is good sign. But they will not be happy, because you are keeping dog in house. Do as I am saying. God will shower blessings on you.” Go away. Go far far away. I don't want you and your god. What kind of god is he that will bless a house with yellow toilets only? And if the saints say that He is everywhere, how does it matter whether he be in the south or east or southwest? And by what rules of physics do opposing cupboards remove negative energy? My dog is my god, for he brings me happiness. Is that not a god's task? My idols are my gods. For in them I see Him and adore Him. My toilets, my cupboard, my house, they are my gods. For they give m...