Love Urdu Poems

MY HEART WITHOUT YOU .......


YOUR LONG HAIR STILL LINGERS UPON MY COLD FACE 
TOUCHING MY FINGERS SKIN AND SOULS
CANNOT FORGET YOUR OPEN HAIR ON MY...

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Oh! Black Americans,  
Africa is your motherland 
And most Africans love you 
Not because you are called African Americans 
And lost your African mother tongues
And...

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I hail Thee
For the life you give me
I hail Thee
For the love you shower me
I hail Thee for the message you send me
I thank you
For...

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Mar jaain gay mar jaain gay
Tujhay phir ham yad ain gay.....

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Teri Ma ko ma na kahun to kia kahun?
Teri behan ko baji ka darja dayta hun.
Chawal Khan meri behan kay taboot mein keel(maik)thook.
Tere sonay(gold)ko clean...

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Soft whisper cuts through the silence.
       Priya's response into Prem's waiting ear...
       ...

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Look at this sky,
Birds are flying, 
A sound of wind touches our ears.. 
That slow and hard rain..
The fresh and cool atmosphere.. 
After the rain...

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Excerpts from "Cordoba"
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch



Withered Roses
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

What shall I call you,
but the nightingale's desire?

The...

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Excerpts from "The Tulip of Sinai"
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch



Withered Roses
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

What shall I call you,
but...

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ALLAMA IQBAL TRANSLATIONS INTO MODERN ENGLISH



Ehad-e-Tifli (“The Age of Infancy”)
by Allama Iqbal aka Muhammad Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

The earth and the heavens remained...

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WARNING: THE CONTENTS OF THS POEM MAY BE
DANGEROUS TO YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING

(Photo of the Two Lovers is available on contest site),

As any physical...

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Majrooh Sultanpuri translations of Urdu poems into English

I'm like a commodity being priced in the market-place:
every eye ogles me like a buyer's.
—Majrooh Sultanpuri, loose translation...

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Picnic
by Parveen Shakir
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

My friends laugh elsewhere on the beach
while I sit here, alone, counting the waves,
writing and rewriting your name...

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What Happened to Them?
by Nasir Kazmi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Those who came ashore, what happened to them?
Those who sailed away, what happened to them?

Those...

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 Chalo Yeh Zindagi Ab Hum Tumhary Naam Karty Hain,
Sunna Ha Be-Wafa Ki, Be-Wafa Sey Khoob Banti ha..! ...

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