Memory Urdu Poems

Ye jantar mantar ki tasverain bhej Kar
Hamain phansanay ka chakar chor do
Jin logon ki ema pay ye kaam kartay ho
Un ki kali neyat ka bhanda...

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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,...

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I am strange—so strange
that I self-destructed and don't regret it.
—Jaun Elia, translation by Michael R. Burch

The wound is deep—companions, friends—embrace me!
What, did you not even...

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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...

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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...

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it is five a.m and his voice is a hymn i composed to honour my body. 
his history is now mine, and I have sewn...

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We lost more than just a Dad that day
We lost half of how we came to be
We lost we four girls first love
We lost our...

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I'm lost hurt and angry
Why did you take his life
I want, No I need to know
Tell me, Tell me why
I deserve to know

Haven't you done...

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I’m tired
I’m Physically and Emotionally tired
I don’t want to be the strong one anymore
I can’t this time
I don’t know what to do Daddy
I need your...

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The word is foreign in my tongue,
The meaning is clear in your heart.

When we were as close as one,
A severed nerve now throbs, and aches.

Memory...

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I know how it feels, I been there before.
Don't wanna go to sleep, don't wanna wake up all alone.
I still want you.
The nights seem to...

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I dread the day when I get "the call"
When they tell me that you've gently slipped away
Well, at least I hope it will be gentle
As...

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The dark muddy puddles on road, by rain
can’t bring, I thought, the times bygone again.
My latest home in town’s posh colony
has well buried my past...

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The Other Shore 
 

 
Oh my dear little precious
One
Your life was short upon
This planet
But I know you will go so
Very far
Within the openness of
Your...

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Always and forever, I think
Of you..

Every morning I raise its like
The dawn golden light..

You are in my mind

My heart..

My soul..

I carry you where ever my
Mind...

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