Jaun Elia English Translations II
...These are English translations of Urdu poems by Jaun Elia with themes of solitude, loneliness, alienation, love, life, death and loss.
When you come, you will find me lost,
for in my solitude the...
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Categories:
intellects, dream, life, loneliness, loss,
Form: Free verse
immersed
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oh …
imagine the hues …
the shades and shapes and colors -
the breadth of light and exquisite beauty
that blind people …
SEE …
think of the music, untranscribed and emotive,
that those wit...
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Categories:
intellects, analogy, life, senses,
Form: Free verse
My Thing Is This
...As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in sha...
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Categories:
intellects, corruption, education, environment, extended
Form: Free verse
Eternal impermanence
...Eternal impermanence
Walking in the past lives’ gardens is a kind gift from life
Yes, this is a blessing from the life of fate. Benediction
It’s just only I know what I mean about death, past, l...
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Categories:
intellects, fate, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
EV shock therapy
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I went to my car dealer, I hoped to save the planet
The saleslady told me EVs were cheap, and to call her Janet
She said we've got so many subsidies, and they're a great deal
I bought a F-150 Li...
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Categories:
intellects, car, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Lyric
AI, A CURSE OR A BLESSING?
...Could a blessing be a curse?
In the devil's hands, it's worse!
AI, a tool of boundless might,
Ensures our tasks are done just right.
Yet intellects tremble, not quite steady,
To steer this s...
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Categories:
intellects, art,
Form: Rhyme
Song of The Silversword No 1: ABAB
...A mountain of some measure aligned slopes,
Silversword's statuesque uncommonness,
bikers and skiers, youth urban slang, 'dopes,'
pics of height's flowering tower upness.
Centuries of swordplay, T...
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Categories:
intellects, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fate,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Twyla Tharp and Interstate 81
...TWYLA THARP AND
INTERSTATE 81
I had been watching a documentary
about a white-haired woman, a legendary
master of creative processes whose intensity
of focus was a cautionary tale of explosi...
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Categories:
intellects, memory, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Dialectic
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If there’s no god, why show respect
for pain that’s felt by an insect,
for doesn’t that in part deflect
from order’s natural select
which did from soup somehow infect,
cajole or otherw...
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Categories:
intellects, life, meaningful, pain,
Form: Monorhyme
Growing Horizons
...Blithering idiots abound
Where intellects don't make a sound
You must speak your mind
Or else you will find
There really is no common ground...
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Categories:
intellects, philosophy, political,
Form: Limerick
Autopsy
...This is what happens when blade meets flesh?
When your insides breathe more air than you...
Lately I've lost muse to write, love to praise and words of hope,
Instead my pen is but a riotous menace...
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Categories:
intellects, adventure, age, allegory, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Suction and Phantom
...People are running for the illusion, I observe.
And believe what the crow says and swerve.
It can be found on the back of a military vehicle.
The country will soar to the hump of ...
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Categories:
intellects, analogy, anger, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Couplet
Bookshop
...neatly bound, so neatly aligned,
glistening blue, in perfect rows,
labelled in gilded gold letters,
wisdom packed many printed books,
from left to right a thousand years,
travel time, fl...
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Categories:
intellects, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
No More Time For Talk
...People are saying
That would violate our rights!
Let's talk about it...
The "intellects" say
Let's analyze the problem
There's a better way...
The "experts" relate
Their knowledge on the problem
How to deal with it
While these people talk
The terrorists make new pl...
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Categories:
intellects, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Haiku
What Would Our Forefathers Say
...te of time
If our Forefathers
Could see us now, they would say,
"Destroy them all!"
Then we will have time
To live, to talk, to argue
To enjoy our rights
They fought for freedom
They gave us our civil rights
We can't let them down!
So called "intellects"
Who have over analyzed
The Constitution
Have caused us to doubt
What should be plain common sense
Thomas Payne would cry...
George Washington would
Be dismayed at how slow our
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Categories:
intellects, age, allegory, america, conflict,
Form: Haiku
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