Jahan Dekho Tahan Kapat Hai

A Shah Hussain poem lamenting the deceit and treachery found everywhere in the world and urging withdrawal from it.

Albeli Kion Katte

A Shah Hussain poem about a woman so consumed by love that she neglects her spinning and daily duties.

A Shah Hussain poem warning that true love demands fear, sacrifice, and endurance, and should not be entered into lightly.

A Shah Hussain poem contrasting the eternal love of mendicants with worldly vanity, youth, and beauty that fade with mortality.

A Shah Hussain poem on steadfast devotion, vowing to endure blame and suffering in silence, dying to the self while staying with the beloved.

A Shah Hussain poem warning that life’s night is nearly spent, urging the soul to wake and remember God before death takes it unaware.

A Shah Hussain poem picturing the body as a courtyard with rivers, doors, and a bed, symbolizing the soul’s intimate union with the divine.

A Punjabi Sufi kafi in the voice of Heer, longing to journey alone to Ranjha despite dangers, expressing the pain of separation.

A short Shah Hussain kafi mourning a night that passed without play or union, reflecting on the humble, childlike station of faqirs.

Translated poems by Lal Singh Dil about caste oppression, labor, and the enduring power of songs and words.

A Sufi poem by Bulle Shah on how speaking the truth invites persecution, so lovers of truth must bear it silently.

A Punjabi poem by revolutionary poet Paash describing love as inseparable from struggle against oppression.

A Punjabi translation of Bertolt Brecht’s short poem about unrequited, one-sided love.

A bilingual Punjabi-English poem about rain, memory, and longing for words and feelings that were never expressed.

Shares a fellow blogger’s guitar and vocal musical composition set to the author’s earlier poem about caste prejudice in relationships.

A poem reflecting on how a brief romantic bond was reduced to a fleeting acquaintance because of caste differences.

A poem likening life and love to a heap of dust scattered by successive storms, evoking loss and uncertain belonging.

A short poem expressing love for one’s mother, cherished not for birth or upbringing but for their wordless understanding.

A poem about two people who drifted apart in life but who still carry a lingering, unspoken memory of what once was between them.

A tribute poem to Lal Singh Dil mourning lost love and the simplicity that departed with him.

A poem by Amarjit Chandan about the shame and hesitation of not being able to voice deep, consuming love to the beloved.