Long Sher Poems

Last Night 
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch

Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...

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You were an Afghan, Farid Khan by name,
A name less known to the world today.
You ran away from home,
Because your own step-mother plotted against you.
Now you were runaway-Khan!

You chose to be a knight-errant,
Soon became a...

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O Thou the beauteous lofty fort! 
O ancient manse O royal court! 
O land of beauteous holy dream! 
Thou art a shield of mortal mort

Thou midst of ancient royal mead
A royal shade A royal hand
From...

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Translations of Urdu couplets and poems by Momin Khan Momin

Perhaps
by Momin Khan Momin
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
 
The cohesiveness between us, you may remember, or perhaps not.
Our solemn oaths of faithfulness, you may remember,...

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Sparks of golden quarks
Amazing particles of heart
Pyrotechnic shower
Too fine 
Almost from cloud nine
Rise from the articulation-flood
In the fulfilled flow of fascinated blood
As effusive praise in Aha and Wows
The moment a poet finished an Urdu shayari...

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Don't Trust Your Eye's



Don't trust me.

With every word I believe in you.

How many times have I hurt you?

How many times did you save me?

Your eye's shouldn't trust everything they see.

With my heart,those are my eye's.

Not...

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"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act". Quote by Barbara Sher
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Whispers of disobedience float in the air.
A challenge beyond the conformity snare
An inability or refusal to shift or...

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man cub Mowgli was to life once more,
in our boyish pranks in Kanha Park,
revived memories of Kipling’s lore,
from early dawn until moonless dark.

that joyous kid smiled within our hearts, 
as we drove through thick Sal,...

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The Festival of Lights, Chanukah has arrived
a hopeful time of praise each year revived. 
The Menorah lit, each home becomes a church.
Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe.

Our sister Miriam lights the...

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Tee-hee, I'm here again, jus' meef
          Wit' dimples shining, chub-chub cheeks
               Yous...

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Black scar's
Asian glow
A lost women with a drum
The glow came from her  beating
Her drum
But the scar's came from her being
Beating on
The music from the drums relaxed
Her body
Her wounds are like they don't even exist
Because...

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I woke up and toked,

wrapped up the little jokes,
and led the flow of traffic on down the road...


I'm not Casper but I sher Boo the mood of plaster,

I'd rather stiff at narks to break cards,...

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If sick of self your own, whom to complain,
In crowd if feel alone, whom to complain.

The world has too far gone, whom to complain,
If all have-- yon of yon, whom to complain.

If we’ve evil seeds...

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Words that you come came knocking at
Door, whole house hummed with her fragrance.

The eve, your memories still wet,
Then whole town hummed with her fragrance. 

All night I mused upon the date,
All night heart hummed with...

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I find it hard to find the words for how much I love you, 
For that warm feeling I get in my heart.
For that shiver that waves over me making the hairs on my skin...

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Buja dey garmi ban jaa  Meri jaan
Smile......


   Chod dey caasani chod dey jalabi bakwas dey  mitaas teyre hooto ki Meri jaan 


  Jaan ley jaan ki Tham  ley Hath...

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Against the wall I was his devi
Pressed tight beside his soul
Skin so hot it burned through mine like a fever
Warming my muscles
Warming my pulse
Fueling my movement
Touching my body he was my sher
Braving my imperfections 
Lips...

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A-s I usher you to your seat, 
R-apture you truly feel; 
J-oy brought by your birth
E-ndorses a thousand thrill.
L-et me usher you to your seat, as friends clap their hands; 
Y-es, you are at the...

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