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nida sayed \ The Kashmir Walla \ the kashmir walla poetry
Ode to the rains
A splendid beauty from the skies descends. Embracing the Earth quenches its long thirst. Down hilltops, meadows and rivers it sends. Its stroke and shine in watery outburst.
Afzal Guru \ india lenin \ Kashmir \ Russia
You don’t cry: a poem on Afzal Guru
I didn’t cry
perhaps, I had no reason to cry
Afzal Guru was a Kashmiri
and I am from India
Afzal Guru was a Muslim by faith
and I was born a Hindu
From Afzal, to Kashmir
By Mahi Farxana Munshi I walked above the dusty roads. The untrodden ways in the morning. The blood was dripping down from the sore skies. I knew it was going to end the air in my lungs. The curve on my lips just broadened more. The echo of the eternal bliss was calling my name. [...]
Transcreation: Yeh jau raig-e-dasht-e-firaaq hai
By Huzaifa Pandit Zindagi jabr-e-musalsal ki tarah kaati hai Jaanay kis jurm ki paayi hai saza yaad nahee!! (Life meanders on stooped under a perpetual tyranny What heinous crime begot such punishment? – Devoured by the misty mires of my memory) yeh jo raig-e-dasht-e-firaq hai yeh ruke agar yeh ruke agar to nishaaN mile, yeh [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kashmir \ kashmiri poets
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By Ather Zia Our wounds are labeled forgettable, Shahid Our life before death is imperceptible, Shahid Billboards proclaim, Kashmir: A Paradise God has a reason to be chimerical, Shahid Memory threads tied to wooden roses at Khankah Even simple prayers are incomprehensible, Shahid At Naseem Bagh, your presence was ephemeral Now, your absence is a [...]
Mother
By Farzana Munshi Her hands are stretched out to the lap of cliffs She’s climbing to heaven by treading falls Her eyes are sapphire Hair woven in gold silk threads Her soul is the pearl harboured in heaven Body’s scent pure as a new born Alas! Why is she drowned in thought? Why are you [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kashmir \ kashmiri poets
I belong to a Valley
By Ikram Ullah I belong to a valley grand Himalayas the Pir Panchal Jehlum’s mystifying tranquility Lidder’s restlessness I belong to a valley forlorn a Stalingrad The Red Square without a Kremlin Wall imperialistic want I belong to a valley so bereft traitors sit on res publica thrones My valley echoes Shurkhs of Nund Reshi [...]
Home
By Furqan Fazili A bird weeps alone in a fruitless tree Sun crosses the horizon Moist graves don’t level Unaltered shadows glimmer in smoky air Unwritten lines on hands hide wails A prayer goes unanswered again A garden of corpses floats on a lake A boatman rows on saffron water Red bark of Chinar nailed [...]
Where are you?
By Mohammad Tabish Once again night falls I haven’t slept for decades Don’t call it a nightmare I am already dead The stones I throw used to be my home once This hunger is no humor I have taken abode amidst yellow stones My voice froze trying to reach you No archangel fell to witness [...]
RAP
By Mehraj Dar I’ve a right I’ve a choice I’ve a reason I’ve a voice I cried & screamed They deaf & blind I’m Kashmir My soil is drenched Colour is red I was tortured I was burnt I was stormed I was raided I was murdered I was hanged I’m Kashmir My soil is [...]
kashmiri language \ kashmiri poetry \ kashmiri poets \ Poetry \ poetry in kashmir
ہانٹھ
سمیہ فردوس ہانٹھ سورُۓ شہر چھُ دارِ بَر ترؤپرِتھ ژء تہِ جانانا ہانکل تھاو یَنۂ کالۂ ؤنل پشپےیۂ میاٰنس سینس مَنز تنۂ وآنجہ ِ لؤگم شُشر بچہ دانہِ گوم وَٹھ شَہَس ژام وَرَ میون یہ ماجُت تھر تھرِء لَد پریْتھ جمعہ نیْمازِ پتۂ بانبرِ، تنبلہِ، تیلہِ تۂ وؤشلہِ بَجۂ مشیدِ ہنزِ ڈیڈِ تَل ٹئیر گیسچ [...]
Kashmir \ kashmir poetry \ Poetry
Festered wound
By Shubhrastha Cultivated love withers with weather-ed change. Just as the radios distributed have withered away in rust, in want of signals- that hang limply in desperate search. The tendons of snapped cables, doctored channels, filtered news. News freeze in memory too curfewed to kiss the caskets called brain sockets- just as my neighbor’s blood [...]
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