RawPods: Creative Thought & Expression (Poetry | Literature | Thought)
Sep 17, 2026 · 24 min · 12 segments
Who I am at 01:00 AM - The Craft of Meter & Sufi Verse \[Shaheryar Mirza - Sohbat - Chashma e Rawaan Ep 7, RawaPods] Episode 7 - Sohbat, Shaheryar Mirza When an award winning musician writes…
I think just the advantage of being a musician was very helpful to me because music, when you approach songwriting, lyrics, actually, it's all about the meter.
So for me, it's why sometimes some of the flowery, embellished words would not make it to inside a pop song.
And it should, for me, it should sound like words falling off, you know, a page like some kind of gunfire almost, you know?
Right.
I was reading a lot of books and the books will completely take you into a, whether it's Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, or it's, you know, mostly Russian literature at the time.
I choose to shape my own narrative.
I question, and I think that's how your poetry approach should be also.
Challenge your ego.
All art needs to slightly tap people on the wrist and all art needs to get people out of their safer puddles.
I mean, with Ravani, I've been able to map out my own sort of journey also in terms of where can I relate to these themes.
And I remember there was this one around faith, resilience, and especially people who write and recite in Urdu.
I'm very, very, very, very, I revere them a lot.
We're talking about the voice of the refugees talking about Palestine and many other issues.
I think that activism is beautiful and that Ravani brings that activism.
I appreciate you for all that you say and don't say.
You speak my language in silence, in a soliloquy.
This is my world.
Satellites don't navigate me.
Maps don't fool me into thinking I'm actually getting somewhere.
I am where I need to be.
So let's appreciate balance.
And even though you're spent, I like what you bring to the table.
Happy to pay the rent.
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I think just the advantage of being a musician was very helpful to me because music, when you approach songwriting, lyrics, actually, it's all about the meter.
So for me, it's why sometimes some of the flowery, embellished words would not make it to inside a pop song.
And it should, for me, it should sound like words falling off, you know, a page like some kind of gunfire almost, you know?
Right.
I was reading a lot of books and the books will completely take you into a, whether it's Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, or it's, you know, mostly Russian literature at the time.
I choose to shape my own narrative.
I question, and I think that's how your poetry approach should be also.
Challenge your ego.
All art needs to slightly tap people on the wrist and all art needs to get people out of their safer puddles.
I mean, with Ravani, I've been able to map out my own sort of journey also in terms of where can I relate to these themes.
And I remember there was this one around faith, resilience, and especially people who write and recite in Urdu.
I'm very, very, very, very, I revere them a lot.
We're talking about the voice of the refugees talking about Palestine and many other issues.
I think that activism is beautiful and that Ravani brings that activism.
I appreciate you for all that you say and don't say.
You speak my language in silence, in a soliloquy.
This is my world.
Satellites don't navigate me.
Maps don't fool me into thinking I'm actually getting somewhere.
I am where I need to be.
So let's appreciate balance.
And even though you're spent, I like what you bring to the table.
Happy to pay the rent.
