Love, Clouds and Fantasy

Poems are not just creativity let loose. They represent a human's mind that wants to come to terms with life, circumstances in a way that helps others cope with reality. To help them understand their own feelings of the love they hoped for, and never got. Or the love they think they "lost", even though they may not see the Panopticon of Life and Love that takes decades of learning, musing, hoping and conveying through artistic means: the job of a poet, as much as it may be that of a painter or novelist. Here are some poems that are a mix of English ones with western idioms, culture, thoughts, ideas, perspectives that those living in the US or UK or Europe would identify with. Plus those in Hindustani or Urdu (original words of the language put in Roman or 'English' alphabets, with diacritical marks to help pronunciation), but with "full translations" that stand as complete poems in English, in themselves, and not just transliterations. A very different look at poetry from perspectives that span the East and the West...