1. Accepting a hundred wounds from your hand, now I seek fearless refuge only in death.
2. Searching and searching for water to quench my thirst, when I found it at last, I saw— thirst itself had died!
3. : Why does our conversation never end? : Does one's conversation with oneself ever end?
4. Laugh if you must, but don't hold that laughter captive at the corner of your lips— it looks so terribly disheveled!
5. Many have given love in this lifetime; if you could ever give peace... come.
6. When dreams lie shattered, how much of them survives for a person to go on living?
7. The night won't end, yet life slips away!
8. I am not alive, beloved— I exist only for the lifespan of one glimpse of you!
9. Even the moon seems pale when I think of you! Tell me, what other meaning could splendor possibly have?
10. You fled at the sight of battle! Then why did you come to claim the prize?
11. The pain of losing faith is far greater than the pain of losing love.
12. A lifetime spent lighting lamp after lamp, yet I never found the light!
13. Rain and more rain! Winter or monsoon... day or night... rain and more rain!
14. Whose footprints are these on water? Will they ever return this way?
15. Here lies a young man's tombstone! A hundred years are about to pass, yet his age never increased.
16. Calling out to God with all that shouting— what if He gets frightened and actually appears?
17. What a dreamer! Sleeps all day long and dreams!
18. Ice cream, falooda; fever, cold... ah, what a celebration of winter in this spring!
19. He listens to gossip, poor soul has no head of his own!
20. The yellow bird says to the red bird, "Come, let's become a rainbow together!"