Mystery Urdu Poems

The Condition of My Heart
by Munir Niazi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
 
There's no need for anyone else to get excited:
The condition of my heart...

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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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I HEAR HER SCREAMING FROM A DISTANCE TRAPPED WOMEN
SLOWLY OVERLAPPED BY MANY DRIPS STAMPED WOMEN

DOWN SHE GO TRY NOT TO HARD TO STRUGGLE
YOUR LOSING BALANCE...

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Life is a bag of jilly beans
Never in a separate bowl
Fruity, exquisite, spooned by Ian.

PiCk
and 
MiX

Crouching, the tiger 
amalgamated the prism of daL.

Floating, the petal
never...

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Behold the NIGHT of dread is upon us
          No one knows the route of this scary...

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    "Ebony Embers of Wallowing Ash"


flames of fire fuel black smoke
walls tumble to ground like dark cloak
Egypt burns in savage rebellion
as human...

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As lovers walk hand in hand, with each step their world becomes smaller under the moonlight
Cocooned in their embrace, lips on lips trace, as passion...

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Deep darkness fears me at night, 
Sable thoughts surround me tight, 
Run I to the dark corners to escape, 
Wrestle against inner self and fight,...

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