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| Searching... Author: FAIZ, FAIZ AHMED Matches Found: 84 Faiz, Faiz Ahmed Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad 84 poems available by this author A PRISON DAYBREAK Poem Text First Line: Night wasn't over / when the moon stood beside my bed Last Line: Into each other's arms Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts A PRISON EVENING Poem Text First Line: Each star a rung Last Line: If just one moment anywhere on this earth Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts AN EVENING IN PRISON Poem Text First Line: From intricate clustera of stars Last Line: Snuff out the moon! Subject(s): Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts ANY LOVER TO ANY BELOVED First Line: Today, if the breath of breeze Last Line: If you care to, of course you may say it, %or not, as the case may be AUG-52 First Line: It's still distant, but there are hints of springtime Last Line: Your feet bleed, faiz, something surely will bloom %as you water the desert simply by walking throug BANGLA DESH: 1 Poem Text First Line: The festival of massacre: how make it vivid? Last Line: So beware. Because my heart is thirsting for blood. Subject(s): Bangladesh; Blood; Bodies; Violence BANGLA DESH: 2. THE BLOOD IN MY EYES Poem Text First Line: Layer by layer, the dust of bitterness Last Line: Will be cleansed of blood forever. Subject(s): Bangladesh; Blood; Eyes; Healing; Tears; Cures BANGLA DESH: 3. REVISITED AFTER THE HOLOCUAST, 1973 Poem Text First Line: We who are strangers now, after our years of easy friendship Last Line: After everything else had been said. Subject(s): Bangladesh; Friendship; Reconciliation BE NEAR ME Poem Text First Line: Be near me now, Subject(s): Love BE NEAR ME First Line: You who demolish me, you whom I love Last Line: Be near me, my destroyer, my lover, %be near me BE NEAR ME First Line: Be near me now BEFORE YOU CAME Poem Text Subject(s): Inanimate Objects BEFORE YOU CAME First Line: Before you came, %things were as they should be Last Line: The road a road, %and the glass of wine not a mirror, just a glass of wine BEFORE YOU CAME First Line: Before you came things were just what they were Last Line: The glass of wine, as it should be, the glass of wine BLACK OUT First Line: Ever since the lights failed Last Line: I will then begin a new translation of hope. %I will complete the texts of love BLACKOUT Poem Text First Line: Since our lights were extinguished Subject(s): India - Pakistan (relations) BLACKOUT First Line: Since our lights were extinguished Last Line: My epistles of love CITY FROM HERE First Line: When you look at the city from here Last Line: Whether the color clinging to those distant doors and walls %is that of roses or of blood CITY OF LIGHTS First Line: On each patch of green, from one shade to the next Last Line: So that I may find you, oh city, %my city of many lights DAY DEATH COMES First Line: How will death come? DEDICATION First Line: Abacus of suffering - %frost-edged fields Last Line: That will not last %through the night DESIRE First Line: I have certainly %no faith in miracles, yet I long Last Line: To return, in that final direction, %forever DO NOT ASK OF ME, MY LOVE Last Line: That love I once had for you! DON'T ASK ME FOR THAT LOVE AGAIN Poem Text First Line: That which then was ours, my love Last Line: Don’t ask me, my love, for that love again Subject(s): Love DON'T ASK ME FOR THAT LOVE AGAIN First Line: That which then was ours, my love Last Line: Comforts other than love. %don't ask me, my love, for that love again Subject(s): Love ELEGY FOR HASSAN NASIR; KILLED BY TORTURE IN THE LAHORE FORT, 1959 Poem Text First Line: Today, all at once, when the thread of my vision snapped Last Line: The cry heard again on the lips of the saqi, when I am gone. Subject(s): Grief; Lahore, Pakistan; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness EVENING First Line: The trees are dark ruins of temples Last Line: And a beautiful, dark goddess, %her anklets echoing, may unveil herself EVENING IN ASHKABAAD First Line: When the sun, %just as it was leaving Last Line: And on the blue horizon of this city %the evening burned itself completely to ash FRAGRANT HANDS Poem Text First Line: A strange arrangement to comfort the heart Last Line: Except love, but only when it begins Subject(s): Flowers; Hafez (1326-1390); Prisons & Prisoners; Smells; Hafiz (1326-139); Convicts; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FRAGRANT HANDS First Line: A strange arrangement to comfort the heart Last Line: Nothing in this world is without terrible barriers- %except love, but only when it begins.' Subject(s): Flowers; Hafez (1326-1390); Prisons And Prisoners; Smells GHAZAL: 1 First Line: You haven't come %I've spent the night waiting Last Line: The breeze passed %a restless wind through the cages GHAZAL: 2 First Line: The heart a desecrated temple Last Line: Already my memory is beginning to blur %at any moment I may forget her GHAZAL: 3 First Line: In the sun's last embers, the evening star burns to ash Last Line: Once again the breeze knocks on the priosn door. %it whispers, don't give up, wait a little, dawn is GHAZAL: 4 First Line: We all were killed Last Line: Its custom to announce thus %that it will surely come GHAZAL: 5 First Line: Ask no more about separation Last Line: And where on those last miles %the dawn? GHAZAL: 6 First Line: Let the breeze pour colors Last Line: You climbed the steps to the gallows %lost yourself in the hangman's arms GHAZAL: 7 First Line: Your sorrow is in search of someone Last Line: Those once proud to be accused of love %they all have vanished GHAZAL: 8 First Line: He bet both this life and the next Last Line: Oh faiz how it broke once again %into hopeless longing HEART GIVES UP First Line: Such was its pain that night Last Line: Something told me, 'linger, don't leave,' %but the heart didn't waver, it didn't wish to stay HOUR OF FAITHLESSNESS First Line: In a little while the moon will be in IF I WERE CERTAIN Poem Text First Line: If I were certain, o my dear companion Last Line: Except yourself, except yourself, except yourself. Subject(s): Beauty; Love IN SEARCH OF VANISHED BLOOD First Line: There's no sign of blood, not anywhere Last Line: From the beginning this blood was nourished only by dust. %then it turned to ashes, left no trace, b INTRODUCTION First Line: Someday perhaps, the poem Last Line: That is an abandoned heart on the verge %will pierce you with its living vein IT IS SPRING AGAIN First Line: It is spring. And the ledger is opened again Last Line: And spring has come once again asking %the same questions, reopening account after account LAST NIGHT First Line: At night my lost memory of you returned Last Line: I was like the dying patient %who, for no reason, smiles LET ME THINK First Line: Let me think %just for a while Last Line: So don't question me about the heart. %just let me think MY VISITORS First Line: The door of my sorrowing house opens against its will Last Line: Fears, questions, forebodings NO SIGN OF BLOOD Poem Text First Line: Nowhere, nowhere is there any trace of blood Last Line: Blood that in the end became the nourishment for dust Subject(s): Blood NO SIGN OF BLOOD First Line: Nowhere, nowhere is there any trace of blood Last Line: Blood that in the end became the nourishment for dust Subject(s): Blood NO TRACE OF BLOOD First Line: There's no sign of blood, not anywhere Last Line: Had been nourished only by dust. %in the end, still crying, it hid itself in dust ON MY RETURN FROM DHAKA (BANGLADESH 3.) First Line: After those many encounters, that easy intimacy Last Line: Those healing words remained unspoken after all else had %been said ONCE AGAIN THE MIND First Line: Today, as usual, the mind goes hunting for a word Last Line: Even a scream of anguish, %or the last trump crying the hou r of doom PARIS First Line: It is like this: the day declines POEM First Line: You who wear shirts Last Line: Of wounds, %some roses may also PRISON DAYBREAK First Line: Night wasn't over %when the moon stood beside my bed Last Line: With burning arrows, ready to pierce %these tyrant hearts of stone and steel Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners PRISON DAYBREAK First Line: Though it was still night Last Line: Ready to let them fly PRISON EVENING First Line: Each star a rung Last Line: Can be so strangely sweet, %if just one moment anywhere on this earth Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners PRISON NIGHTFALL First Line: The night descends Last Line: They cannot blind the moon! Subject(s): Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Prisons And Prisoners SO BRING THE ORDER FOR MY EXECUTION First Line: The day of judgment is here Last Line: I must see with whose seals the margins are stamped, %recognize the signatures on the scroll SOLITARY CONFINEMENT First Line: Wave of light on the horizon Last Line: To this planet %and to the beauty of woman SOLITUDE First Line: Someone, finally, is here! No, unhappy heart, no one Last Line: Tell every dream that knocks to go away. %no one, now no one will ever return SOUTHERN GHAZAL First Line: What, sometime, did not pass before these eyes? Last Line: Of a glance, worlds passed by at the lifting of these eyes STAY AWAY FROM ME (BANGLADESH 1.) First Line: How can I embellish this carnival of slaughter Last Line: The dust of my seaared soul. %so stay away from me. Because I'm thirsting for blood STAY AWAY FROM ME (BANGLADESH 2.) First Line: This is how my sorrow became visible Last Line: A flood to purify my dust-filled eyes, %to wash this blood forever from my eyes THE EVENING STAR Poem Text First Line: In sunset ash the evening star has burnt out its light THE TYRANT Poem Text First Line: This is the festival; we will inter hope Last Line: Will cover you with dust and ashes Subject(s): Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Theology TRAVELOGUE First Line: No drum will roll now; morning will not bring TWO ELEGIES: 1. APPOINTMENTS First Line: The walls, each inch of them, have turned black Last Line: My enemy who erases sorrows like a friend, %my murderer who's also my lover TWO ELEGIES: 2. THE RAIN OF STONES IS FINISHED First Line: Today as I stared, suddenly a string snapped Last Line: That is blood and poison? Who? %this is the cry in the tavern after I'm gone TYRANT First Line: This is the festival; we will inter hope Last Line: Every gate of prayer throughout heaven %is slammed shut today Subject(s): Religion TYRANT First Line: Come, let us rejoice! Last Line: And in heaven the gates of sanctity have been sealed Subject(s): Muslims VICTIM First Line: Night is the harbinger of pain Last Line: Or should I believe you? Subject(s): Muslims VISITORS First Line: My doors are open Last Line: Bruised, bleeding-- %my land, my home VISTA Poem Text First Line: Deserted street, shadows of trees and houses Last Line: More, yet more softly Subject(s): Love VISTA First Line: Deserted street, shadows of trees and houses Last Line: The moon, breathing as it went down, said, %'more, yet more softly.' Subject(s): Love VOICE FROM THE UNKNOWN First Line: Warn all in authority Last Line: Here and now will be the day of judgement Subject(s): Muslims WASH THE BLOOD OFF YOUR FEET First Line: What could I have done, gone where? Last Line: Break open into a thousand different wounds. %it still has to know knife after knife after knife WE WERE COMMANDED BY THIS HEART First Line: When blood running wild through the veins Last Line: It is prepared for terifying agonies, %and adamant against the comfort of death WE WHO WERE EXECUTED Poem Text First Line: I longed for your lips, dreamed of their roses Last Line: We who were murdered in the darkest lanes Subject(s): Longing; Revolutions WE WHO WERE EXECUTED First Line: I longed for your lips, dreamed of their roses Last Line: It's because of them that we went out to make the world our own, %we who were murdered in the darkes Subject(s): Longing; Revolutions WHEN AUTUMN CAME Poem Text First Line: This is the way that autumn came to the trees: Subject(s): Autumn; Fall WHEN AUTUMN CAME First Line: This is the way that autumn came to the trees Last Line: Let one bird sing YOU TELL US WHAT TO DO Poem Text First Line: When we launched life YOU TELL US WHAT TO DO First Line: When we launched life Last Line: Now tell us what we should do, %you tell us how to heal these wounds |
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