Fierce Battle

It's not a war of nerves, but,
of words
words - abandon me to see, just how
I react
I have picked their move, and I
do not care about them much, as I feel
it's not war of words, but
of thoughts
thoughts are playing with me, a game
of chess
how naive they are and wrong, in measuring
all my strengths, skills, strategies, and assume
I'll die in saving knights, rooks, bishops, and the queen
what they do not realize, is that I
am a mastermind of playing with pawns, and
positive thinking, obduracy are my pawns, for they never
never yield, in this war
we are all a unified single force, that is going to win
this bloody fierce battle.

States of Mind

Clouds gather,

winds stop - no rain,

- clouds gather,

stormy winds, torrential rain

- states of mind!

Saalik Siddikki

10:32 a.m.  -  23-02-11

Village in Punjab

Vivid and expanding view,

like a landscape painter's canvas

- unpolluted peace

09:00 p.m. - 21-02-11

Dedicated to Ali Imran Amir's Chak 33-2L

Positive Thinker

Tired, staggering, falling,

walking, crawling, creeping, moving ahead,

- overwhelming obduracy

09:30 p.m.  -  21-02-11

Red Carpet

Watching mirror  

-  on scarlet lips

she spreads a smile

02:22 p.m.  -  21-02-11

Cell Phone Virtue

Late midnight

Sleepless, lonely, tense -

SMS rescues

12:20 p.m.  -  21-02-11

Cell Phone Curse

Twilight phase

Lost in thoughts, catharsis

-         shattered by an SMS

12:10 p.m.  -  21-02-11

Prayer Honoured

I prayed aloud,

in midnight walk

-O'Gracious Lord!

I need company of a selfless friend

and I kept walking

on the circular track.

Then, I heard footsteps

right behind me -

head bent down,

a black dog followed!

16:38 p.m.   -  20-02-11

A Darwesh to God

On my heart's media player,

I've been listening - since long:

instrumentals of your love

- send me please,

copy of the video song

- O'my Lord!

4:55 p.m. - 20-02-11

Point of View

Groom in genes -

bacteria of love

- not in heart!

11:01 a.m.  -  20-02-11

Cul-de-sac

The last drops of milk :

lethargic fly sucks, in my cup

- Autumn leaf lands atop

08:30 a.m.  -  19-02-11

Abrar Salik's Photo to Ahmad Kamran

Cries in pain and yearns - 

Hang me on your wall of heart :

rest your friend in peace

18-02-11

(Yesterday I got a message from Ahmad Kamran about the death of his friend Abrar Salik. I don't know who this gentleman was but he was my half name-sake.  So, the poem occurred without any thinking.)

On Namita Gupta's Status

Floating with the waves:

in the river of spiritual peace -

lost, to find her SELF!

06:22  -  17-02-11

(The poem just occurred at the moment of first sight of the profile picture of Namita Gupta with the so thought-provoking status 'Lost'.)

Cosmic Thought

SMS from space -

in this universe, we are : 

neighbours, aliens not!

01:36 p.m. - 17-02-11

Kitchen Tv

Chopping onion -

Break-up after arguments 

- She cuts her finger!

01:03 p.m. - 17-02-11

Haiku 13 - Spring

Landscape changes,

shoots, leaves, blooms, sky, warm ambiance-

Spring festivity!

11:55 a.m. - 17-02-11

Haiku - 12 - Nature's Art

Raindrops on windscreen,

nature's perfect abstract art

- tasteless people frown!

03:30 p.m. - 15-02-11

Haiku - 11 - Deception?

Day, in hectic job,

laughs, jokes, joy, pretence . . . night? . . . 

pains of solitude!

Saalik Siddikki - 12:50 p.m. - 15-02-11

Dedicated to Shiraz Hassan (Daily Waqt)

Haiku - 10 - Killing time

Waiting in the queue

Platos, Socrates, Bernard Shaws

Ah! These tax returns!

Saalik Siddikki - 11:50 - 15-02-11

Haiku - 9 - Midnight Walker

Why he walks alone?

midnight puzzled, silence dumb,

footsteps whisper, O'man!

Saalik Siddikki - 3:35 a.m. - 15-02-11

Haiku - 8 - Shadow

Dim scary shadow,

when I stop and turn around,

looks afraid and stunned!

Saalik Siddikki -  02:57 a.m. - 15-02-11

Haiku - 7 - Walking Mate

Edited. Now read as :

midnight walker's mate
 floating beyond clouds, moon-

chilling silence smiles

(Floating beyond clouds, moon!

midnight walker's lonely mate:

chilling silence haunts)

13-02-11

Haiku - 6 - Egos

In the scorching sun

friends and shadowy trees alike:

egos deeply hurt

13-02-11

Haiku - 5 - Compulsions

Cloudy cool weather:

outing still a wishful thought,
chains of compulsions!

Saalik Siddikki - 11:10 a.m. - 12-02-11

Haiku - 4 - Nostalgia

Driving kids to school

summons childhood memories

- walking miles and miles

Saalik Siddikki - 07:45 a.m. - 11-02-2011

Haiku - 3 - Morning Call

Sun explodes in clouds:
birds and breeze, call on terrace
- nasty sleepless night

Saalik Siddikki - 10-02-2003

Haiku - 2 - Keeping Awake

Not being smoker

curse or virtue to keep awake?

-searching haiku blogs


10-02-2001

Haiku - 1 - Noisy Roads

Riding bike, thinking

on the noisy, bumpy roads 

-my virgin haiku!

09-02-2011