DIL AKHIR TU KYU ROTA HAI by JAVED AKHTAR

jab jab dard ka baadal chhaya
jab gum ka saya lehraye
jab jab aansun palkon tak aya
jab yeh tanha dil ghabaraya
humne dil ko yeh samjhaya dil akhir tu kyu rota hai.... duniya mein yun hi hota hai...
yeh jo gehre sannate hai, waqt ne sabko hi batein hai...
thoda dard hai sabka kissa... thodi dhup hai sabka hissa...
aankh teri bekar hi nam hai... har pal ek naya mausam hai...
kyu tu aise pal khota hai...? dil akhir tu kyu rota hai....?

this one was recited by Farhan Akhtar in the movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, and happens to be my personal favourite out of the four poems he recited in the movie...

DELUSION ANGEL by DAVID JEWELL

Daydream delusion
Limousine eyelash
Oh baby with your pretty face
drop a tear in my wine glass
Look at those big eyes on your face
see what you mean to me -
sweet cakes and milk shakes

I’m a delusion angel
I’m a fantasy parade
I want you to know what I think
don’t want you to guess anymore
You have no idea where I came from
we have no idea where we’re going
Lodged in life

like two branches in a river
Caught in the current
flowing downstream
I’ll carry you, you carry me
that’s how it could be
Don’t you know me
Don’t you know me by now…?







this poem was recited in the movie Before Sunrise, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. one of my all time favourite movies.... the movie also came with a sequel 9 years later, called Before Sunset (in 2004), and with the third sequel Before Midnight this year. 

POEM by STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
    he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"
    because that was the name of his dog
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
    and a gold star
And his mother hung it on the kitchen door
    and read it to his aunts
That was the year Father Tracy
    took all the kids to the zoo
And he let them sing on the bus
And his little sister was born
    with tiny toenails and no hair
And his mother and father kissed a lot
And the girl around the corner sent him a
    Valentine signed with a row of X's
    and he had to ask his father what the X's meant
And his father always tucked him in bed at night
And was always there to do it

Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines
    he wrote a poem
And he called it "Autumn"
    because that was the name of the season
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
    and asked him to write more clearly
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
    because of its new paint
And the kids told him
    that Father Tracy smoked cigars
And left butts on the pews
And sometimes they would burn holes
That was the year his sister got glasses
    with thick lenses and black frames
And the girl around the corner laughed
    when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
And the kids told him why
    his mother and father kissed a lot
And his father never tucked him in bed at night
And his father got mad
    when he cried for him to do it.


Once on a paper torn from his notebook
    he wrote a poem
And he called it "Innocence: A Question"
    because that was the question about his girl
And that's what it was all about
And his professor gave him an A
    and a strange steady look
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
    because he never showed her
That was the year that Father Tracy died
And he forgot how the end
    of the Apostle's Creed went
And he caught his sister
    making out on the back porch
And his mother and father never kissed
    or even talked
And the girl around the corner
    wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her
    but he kissed her anyway
    because that was the thing to do
And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed
    his father snoring soundly

That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
    he tried another poem
And he called it "Absolutely Nothing"
Because that's what it was really all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
    because this time he didn't think
    he could reach the kitchen.