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Today's poetess is Parveen Shakir. The world of Urdu poetry lost one 
of its brightest young stars when she met her untimely death in a car 
accident.

This ghazal has been sung by Tahira Syed.

baadabaa.N khulane se pahale kaa ishaaraa dekhanaa
mai.n sama.ndar dekhatii huu.N tum kinaaraa dekhanaa

yuu.N bichha.Danaa bhii bahut aasaa.N na thaa usase magar
jaate jaate us kaa vo mu.D ke dubaaraa dekhanaa

kis shabaahat ko liye aayaa hai daravaaze pe chaa.Nd
ai shab-e-hijraa.N zaraa apanaa sitaaraa dekhanaa

[shabaahat = form; shab-e-hijraa.N = night of separation]

aa_iine kii aa.Nkh hii kuchh kam na thii mere liye
jaane ab kyaa kyaa dikhaa_egaa tumhaaraa dekhanaa