mere jaise ban jaaoge ..

Another one from Jagjit singh but with Chitra singh
lyrics by Gulzaar saab ..
Like the melody of this one ...


Mere jaise ban jaoge
jab ishq tumhe ho jayega
Deewaron se takaraooge
Jab ishq tumhe ho jayega

Har baat gawara kar loge
Mannat bhi utara kar loge
Taabeezein bhi bandhwaoge
Jab ishq tumhe ho jayega

Tanhai ke jhulle jhoologe
Haar baat purani bhoologe
Aaine se tum ghabaraoge
Jab ishq tumhe ho jayega

mere jaise ban jaaoge ..

Jab suraj bhi kho jayega
Aur chand kahin soo jayega
Tum bhi ghar der se aaooge
Jab ishq tumhe ho jayega

Bechaini jab badh jayege
Aur yaad kisi ki ayegi
Tum meri ghazalein gaaoge
Jab ishq tumhe ho jayega

Mere jaise ban jaoge
Tab ishq tumhe ho jayega
Deewaron se takarooge
Jab ishq tumhe ho jayega

tumne ...

I Don't have an appropriate title for this one ..will update it once i find one !

tumne hasaya tha bahut mujhe har din
par ab roz rulate bhi to ho...

kehte ho ki tum yeh nahin chahte
phir bhi kahin na kahin dil dukhate to ho ..

aaj kehete ho ki man lun main haar
kar lun yeh sweekaar...
kar lun samjhota kismat ke
maan lun isse vidhi ka vidhaan ..

jhoojna bhi tumhi ne sikhaya tha ..
aaj hatyaar daalne ko bhi tumhi kehte ho ..

Pyaar ki duhai de kar
kamzoor mujhe nit karte ho ..

kitne aasun hai bahahe
kya yeh tum jante bhi ho...

kabhi jaan lo agar tum yeh sab
to kahan seh paaoge..

duniya ke bhi hain khel ajeeb ..
kal jo thee kareeb, aaj nahin hain woh shayad naseeb
aaj ho hain kareeb, naa jaane kahan le jaye unhe naseeb
kal ho hongee kareeb, kya pata kahan hain woh khush naseeb !


Wandering soul is in serious mood of attempting to write some poetry ..
this day when the soul was stirred without wandering in dream lands as it couldnt qualify the primary critea of falling to sleep ..

These words formed the sentences and fell into a pattern ..

Attempt to scribble is a past now (specially for this one .. might go back to my roots soon)

For this one , i would say , its an attempt to write ...

Sunday 27 may 2007
2.30 am

i am not me ..

I am not me anymore ...

The things that i do sometimes
Aren't the ones which i would have ever done before

and still i do it and wonder how could i do this

i wasnt always like this ..
i was usually in control and knew my way..

Its just the present times which make me fray ..

one friday .. part 2

25 may 2007
friday evening

Yes, i am with pen and paper again .. second time in a day. My friend gave it to me, as i expressed the desire to write something, in my words it was, " i wish i could write .. i could write well.. could write poems "

Is creative writing a gift or one works on it and gets it right ?
Here i am on a couch, eating hershey's chocolate
waiting for a cup of cofee and watching a movie ...
heard the beep of microwave.. seems like its ready :)

Friday dinner routine is cancelled, as i dont feel like going out
i guess i am being a spoilspot .. but i just dont feel like going out ...



Music and lyrics
lyrics and music
together make a song

But .....

Pen and paper
paper and pen
doesn't always make a poem !

one friday ..

Its friday afternoon, before a long weekend in school
my silent corridor sounds awfully quiet
no sounds of footsteps and no sounds of the closing labdoors

i peeped outside the door saw no one ..and then looked outside the window
i didnt see a single person but i saw marching of the raindrops ..
yes once again rain is falling cham chama cham !


The sight is beautiful, i wish i could write poetry and capture this all in a poem
still something inside me .. made me leave all that i was doing
and here i am sitting almost on a floor gazing outside the window

with a pen and writing pad replacing the keyboard and computer screen
watching the rain drops touch the surface of the pond,
raindrops which make beautiful patterns ..

This takes me back to the wonderful memory lanes of my childhood
My vacations in the valleys ..where there was a pond .. not as sofisticated as this one
but
the pond across the road from the house where i stayed, filled with lotus and surrounded by the kids who dreamt of flying helicopters high in sky...
some just played with pebbles to see the ripples created in the pond .
Flash back over !
back to the patterns .. and back to the work ..as i had to ...

pyaar mujhse jo kiya tumne

Another gazhal from Jagjit Singh ...
i dont remember when or where i heard it for the first time ..
but it touched me somewhere ...and listen to it often ...
dont know if its an album or movie or who wrote it ...
i cant write that anymore ...will find the info in a min ...
okay so its from a movie : Saath Saath (1982)
Music Director: Kuldip Singh
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
well now that i know that... i see that this movie had many other gazhals ..should catch up with the movie .. its a deepti naval and farooq sheikh starrer .. must have watched it sometime somewhere .. and must have heard the song then .. and its now that after years i appreciate the words and the music much more .....

प्यार मुझ से जो किया तुमने तो क्या पाओगी
मेरे हालात की आँधी मॆं बिखर जाओगी

रंज ओर दर्द की बस्ती का मैं बाशिन्दा हूँ
ये तो बस मैं हूँ के इस हाल में भी ज़िंदा हुँ
ख़्वाब क्युँ देखुँ वो कल जिस पे मैं शर्मिन्दा हुँ
मैं जो शर्मिन्दा हुआ तुम भी तो शर्माओगी

प्यार मुझ से जो किया ..

क्युँ मेरे साथ कोई ओर परेशान रहे
मेरी दुनिया है जो विरान तो विरान रहे
ज़िंदगी का यह सफ़र तुम पे तो आसान रहे
हमसफ़र मुझको बनाओगी तो पछताओगी

प्यार मुझ से जो किया ...

एक मैं क्या अभी आयेंगे दीवाने कितने
अभी गुंजेंगे मुहब्बत के तराने कितने
ज़िंदगी तुमको सुनायेगी फ़साने कितने
क्यूँ समझाती हो मुझे भूल नहीं पाओगी

प्यार मुझ से जो किया ....

Memories

memories of you
memories of me
memories of you and me

memories that burst out from no where
memories which then follow me everywhere

sometimes they are like subtle visitor
which knocks at my door everyday
then they fill me with life
as they are the memories which make me smile

sometimes they are like unwanted visitors
banging at my door like howling winds
memories which make me cry
and then they take me over for a while

memories that burst out from no where
memories which then follow me everywhere

Ah!
memories of you
memories of me
memories of you and me



wednesday 23 May 2007
after a long day .. in this warm summer night
here i am .. on my couch with my laptop
seriously attempting to scribble something
inspired by this word " memory".
wandering soul scribbles few lines
before going to wander in the sweet world of dreams..

true colors are beautiful ...sometimes ignorance is bliss !

You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you
Can make you feel so small

But I see your true colors
Shining through I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

Show me a smile then,
Don't be unhappy,
can't rememberWhen I last saw you laughing
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

One of my friends emailed me this and it made me feel so good ..coz i have been craving for somekind of poem or something of that kind ..to be written for me .. and i was so happy to receive this ..only till i came to know that its a song by Cindy Lauper ...

sometimes ignorance is bliss .. and today i actually saw it ...

well even after knowing that its a song .. it did make me smile ...

दिन कुछ ऐसे ..

Another favorite ghazal from the fav combination who else
Jagjit Singh and Gulzar

दिन कुछ ऐसे गुजारता है कोई - २
जैसे एहसान उतारता है कोई
दिन कुछ ऐसे गुजारता है कोई

आइना देखकर तस्सली हुई - २
हमको इस घर में जानता है कोई - ४

पक गया है शेहर पे फल शायद - २
फिर से पत्थर उछालता है कोई - २

जैसे एहसान उतारता है कोई
दिन कुछ ऐसे गुजारता है कोई

तुम्हारे गम की दली उठाकर
जबाँ पे रख ली है देखो मैंने
ये कतरा कतरा पिघल रही है
मैं कतरा कतरा ही जी रहा हूँ

देर से गूँजते है सन्नाटे - २
जैसे हमको पुकारता है कोई - ३

दिन कुछ ऐसे गुजारता है कोई
जैसे एहसान उतारता है कोई

I dont understand the line
"pak gaya hai sehar main phal shayad" in the ghazal and also
the meaning of "dali " completely .. what does it exactly mean ...
does dali refer to something that goes away with time ???

i have listenned to it many times and it is today that i paid attention to every single word while writing the lyrics and thats when realized that i dont understand everyword in it ..

kuch nanha sa ...

This so called attempt to write, was a spontaneous one ..The situation was real and i wrote it in the seminar room where some lecture was going on .. God knows how boring it was, people on both side of me were either dozing off or were looking as if they were bored enough to kill the speaker or themselves for showing up ;)

The talk was going over my head too but i wasn't sleepy for a change. Thank god i had a peice of paper and a pen ..and some imagination and some reality ..." kuch nanha sa" .. originated there

i cant decide how should i start it .. i have two ways to start it.. but cant pick one over the other .. so i have both the verses here...

(चलते चलते कुछ दूर तक
अम्बर घिर आया था बादलों से )

अभी चले ही थे कदम कुछ दूर तक
कि घिर आया था अम्बर बादलों से

गिरने लगी थी बूँदें कुछ अम्बर से..धरती की ओर
नन्ही नन्ही प्यारी बूँदें
आई थी शायद मुझी से मिलने

बारिश मॆं भीगने का मज़ा ही कुछ और है,
भर गया था मेरा मन, ख़ुशी से
वोह ख़ुशी जो सालों से दूर थी मुझ से
आज फिर वही इह्सास जागा है मन मॆं

बारिश ले आयी थी कुछ उथल पुथल मेरे आस पास
सब लोग दौड़ रहे थे बारिश से बचने के लिए

और यहाँ थी मैं चली... अपनी धुन मॆं .. अपनी खुशी मॆं .. अपनी दुनिया मॆं
हाँ, उन नन्हीं बूँदों ने बना जो दिया था, मुझे भी कुछ नन्हा सा ...

april २७'२००७
ek rachna ..
by wandering soul ...


Chalte chalte kuch door tak
Ambar ghir aaya tha badaloon se )

Abhi chale hi thee kadam kuch door tak
ki ghir aaya tha ambar badaloon se

Girne lagi thi boondein kuch ambar se..dharti ki aur
nanhi nanhi pyaari boondein
aayein thi shayad mujhi se milne

Baarish main bheegne ka mazza hi kuch aur hai ..
bhar gaya tha mera mann, khushi se
woh khushi jo saloon se door thi mujh se
Aaaj phir wahin ihsaas jagga hai mann main

Baaish le aayi thi kuch uthal puthal mere aas pass
sab log daud rahe the baarish se bachne ke liye

Aur yahan thi main chali... apni dun main .. apni khushi main .. apni duniya main
haan, un nanhin boondoon ne bana jo diya tha diya tha mujhe kuch nanha saa ...

Scribbled my wandering soul ...
27 april 2007
At a place where most of the people were sleeping or yawning :)

one has to move on ..

One has to move on, if they want to be happy
Being in the past, doesn’t help anybody

Wasting so much time and energy on something that no longer exists
Causes only pain and lead to despair

Everyone knows this...
Then why can’t one get out of it?

Days after days
Weeks after weeks
Months after months

Same story repeats…

The memories of you burst out, from no where
With slightest resemblance of you,
Sometimes its words, laughter, nose, smile with crooked teeth, twinkling eyes
Sometimes its sun, wind, rain, night, stars
Sometimes its nothing but my perception of you

What you said, how you said, how u felt, how i felt..
But it’s all a past now and it’s the time for closure …

So it might have been
Weeks after weeks
Months after months
Don’t let it be years after years..
Windows and doors to the past needs to be closed ...to move into the new life

When u have given it your best, but things still does not work ...
Close the chapter .....
God's got some other , maybe much better plans for you

One lazy sunday
may 6' 2007

pyaar ka pehla khat likhne mein

Here comes one of my favourites again ..
i have listenned to it many many times, but i never get bored of this..
i like each and everyword of this one, every word has a deep meaning,
though i love the second verse the most...

Title: Pyar Ka Pehla Khat Likhne Mein
Album : Face to Face
Singer(s): JAGJIT SINGH

प्यार का पहला ख़त लिखने में वक़्त तो लगता है,
नये परिंदों को उड़ने में वक़्त तो लगता है...

जिस्म की बात नही थी उन् के दिल तक जाना था,
लम्बी दूरी तेह करने में, वक़्त तो लगता है..

गाँठ अगर लग जाये तो फिर, रिश्ते हों या दूरी,
लाख करे कोशिश खुलने में, वक़्त तो लगता है..

हमने इलाज़- ए- ज़खामैं दिल का, ढून्ढ लिया लेकिन,
गहरे ज़ख्मो को भरने में, वक़्त तो लगता है.

gloomy weather.. gloomy ??

Its about to be 12.oo in the night, remember seeing this time before too not so long ago ..
The day started dull.. very dull .. and the rain added to it ..

what can be better way of gettin up from the sleep than by the tipper tapper rain drops,
Scence from the window, looked beautiful too but the laziness had already filled in...

....not in mood to write anything more ....