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142 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1994
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About the author
Parveen Shakir
35 books67 followersParveen Shakir was an Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan.
Parveen started writing at an early age and published her first volume of poetry, Khushbu [Fragrance], in 1976 to great acclaim. She subsequently published other volumes of poetry; all well-received.
Shakir employed mainly two forms of poetry in her work, one being the prevalent Ghazal, and the other being free verse. The most prominent themes in Shakir's poetry are love, feminism, and social stigmas, though she occasionally wrote on other topics as well. Her work was often based on romanticism, exploring the concepts of love, beauty and their contradictions, and heavily integrated the use of metaphors, similes and personifications.
Arguably, Shakir can be termed the first female poet to use the word larki (girl) in her works. The male-dominated Urdu poetry scene seldom employs that word, and uses masculine syntax when talking about the 'lover'. Similarly, she often made use of the Urdu first-person, feminine pronoun in her verses which, though extremely common in prose, was rarely used in poetry, even by female poets, before her.
On 26 December 1994, Shakir's car collided with a bus while she was on her way to work in Islamabad. The accident resulted in her death, a great loss to the Urdu poetry world. The road on which the accident took place is named after her.
Parveen started writing at an early age and published her first volume of poetry, Khushbu [Fragrance], in 1976 to great acclaim. She subsequently published other volumes of poetry; all well-received.
Shakir employed mainly two forms of poetry in her work, one being the prevalent Ghazal, and the other being free verse. The most prominent themes in Shakir's poetry are love, feminism, and social stigmas, though she occasionally wrote on other topics as well. Her work was often based on romanticism, exploring the concepts of love, beauty and their contradictions, and heavily integrated the use of metaphors, similes and personifications.
Arguably, Shakir can be termed the first female poet to use the word larki (girl) in her works. The male-dominated Urdu poetry scene seldom employs that word, and uses masculine syntax when talking about the 'lover'. Similarly, she often made use of the Urdu first-person, feminine pronoun in her verses which, though extremely common in prose, was rarely used in poetry, even by female poets, before her.
On 26 December 1994, Shakir's car collided with a bus while she was on her way to work in Islamabad. The accident resulted in her death, a great loss to the Urdu poetry world. The road on which the accident took place is named after her.
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April 19, 2024
पाकिस्तान की उर्दू शायरी में परवीन के अशआर नर्म सुखन बनकर फूटे हैं और अपनी खुशबू से उर्दू शायरी की दुनिया को सराबोर किया है। उनके शेरों में लोकगीतों की सादगी है और क्लासिक मौसिकि की नफासत और नजाकत भी।
उनकी शायरी स्त्री प्रधान है और रचनाओं में रूमानियत के साथ यथार्थपरकता भी है। इसीलिए स्त्री और प्रेम को आधार बनाकर लिखी उनकी लेखनी अनुभूति के बहुत करीब है। १९५२ में कराची में जन्मी परवीन सिविल सेवा में एक अधिकारी भी थी और शायद इसलिए उन्होंने जिंदगी को ज्यादा करीबी और व्यापक नजर से देखा। उनकी नज्में और गजलें भोलेपन और सोफस्टीकेशन का दिल-आवेज संगम है।
खुली आंखों से सपना झांकता है,
वो सोया है कि कुछ-कुछ जागता है
तेरी चाहत के भीगे जंगलों में
मेरा तन मोर बनकर नाचता है
मैं उसकी दस्तरस में हूं मगर वो,
मुझे मेरी रजा से मांगता है।
उनकी शायरी स्त्री प्रधान है और रचनाओं में रूमानियत के साथ यथार्थपरकता भी है। इसीलिए स्त्री और प्रेम को आधार बनाकर लिखी उनकी लेखनी अनुभूति के बहुत करीब है। १९५२ में कराची में जन्मी परवीन सिविल सेवा में एक अधिकारी भी थी और शायद इसलिए उन्होंने जिंदगी को ज्यादा करीबी और व्यापक नजर से देखा। उनकी नज्में और गजलें भोलेपन और सोफस्टीकेशन का दिल-आवेज संगम है।
खुली आंखों से सपना झांकता है,
वो सोया है कि कुछ-कुछ जागता है
तेरी चाहत के भीगे जंगलों में
मेरा तन मोर बनकर नाचता है
मैं उसकी दस्तरस में हूं मगर वो,
मुझे मेरी रजा से मांगता है।
November 21, 2025
“वो हवाओं की तरह खाना-बजां फिरता है
एक झोंका है जो आएगा, गुज़र जाएगा” 🍃
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Parveen Shakir’s poetry holds an important place in Urdu literature. Her Shayari has a combination of indifference and deep sentiments. Her words speak of pain, love, and self-esteem. She highlighted women’s sentiments and self-reliance through her Shayari.
In Parveen Shakir’s poetry, both sweetness and depth of words are found together. Her every word comes out of the heart and settles in the heart.
Her shayari, such as:
“Your words are scattered like fragrance,
which you could not understand, how is that close one?”
Parveen Shakir’s poetry gives a glimpse of indifference, simplicity and deep thinking, which makes him a precious gem in Urdu literature.
Review- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
एक झोंका है जो आएगा, गुज़र जाएगा” 🍃
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Parveen Shakir’s poetry holds an important place in Urdu literature. Her Shayari has a combination of indifference and deep sentiments. Her words speak of pain, love, and self-esteem. She highlighted women’s sentiments and self-reliance through her Shayari.
In Parveen Shakir’s poetry, both sweetness and depth of words are found together. Her every word comes out of the heart and settles in the heart.
Her shayari, such as:
“Your words are scattered like fragrance,
which you could not understand, how is that close one?”
Parveen Shakir’s poetry gives a glimpse of indifference, simplicity and deep thinking, which makes him a precious gem in Urdu literature.
Review- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 15, 2024
The rare female poet who wrote for females. I loved so many shers and nazms from this collection , the Urdu at places was tough but it's good to learn and grow for the love of poetry . The poem specially deals with themes of seperation, heartbreaks and pain of life.
January 15, 2021
Speechless ... Fall in love.... Thanks for sharing great poems..
September 10, 2014
The book is a pioneer of 'New Age' in Urdu Shayari. Love has never been portrayed more delicately. Shakir's poems have folk-songs like simplicity and rhythm and the nicety and sophistication of classical music. I fell in love with her ghazals and nazms because of their innocent worldliness.
Woman- is the central point of her work. A broken, shattered by love and yet a self respecting woman. A sensitive yet courageous woman. With this woman as her voice, her shayari isn't a love song but a soft love lullaby. Irony is that this lullaby is a medium of awakening!
Whatever she writes is romantic and deeply sensual, still at no point it comes across as dreamy. Unlike most Pakistani poets, at no point Shakir gets involved with Sufism. Yes, she talks about love, memories, separation, dreams- whatever it is, it belongs to this world, this life.
Woman- is the central point of her work. A broken, shattered by love and yet a self respecting woman. A sensitive yet courageous woman. With this woman as her voice, her shayari isn't a love song but a soft love lullaby. Irony is that this lullaby is a medium of awakening!
Whatever she writes is romantic and deeply sensual, still at no point it comes across as dreamy. Unlike most Pakistani poets, at no point Shakir gets involved with Sufism. Yes, she talks about love, memories, separation, dreams- whatever it is, it belongs to this world, this life.
April 1, 2020
Parveen Shakir was one of the best poets of 20th century. Unfortunately, we still don't have a complete collection of her works in Devnagari. Until the 'Collected Poems' is published, we'll have to make do with the 'Representative Poems'.
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