Love Urdu Poems

No Explanation! (I)
by Ahmad Faraz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Please don't ask me how deeply it hurt!
Her sun shone so bright, even the shadows were...

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These are English translations of Urdu poems by Faiz Ahmad Faiz. 



Speak!
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Speak, while your lips are still...

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It's disgraceful, the way you call it love,
The look you give me when It's not my face you hope to look at.

Petals, you name them...

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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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