دامن میں اک پہاڑکے۔۔۔۔۔ (SAMUEL ROGERSکی نظم ’’A WISH ‘‘ کا آزاد ترجمہ) ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔ دامن میں اک پہاڑ کے کٹیا بناؤں گا میں چھوڑ کر نگر، کوئی جنگل بساؤں گا ہر صبح بھیرویں مجھے گا کر سنائے گی کانوں میں رس پڑے گا، مگس بھنبھنائے گی چکّی مری چلائے گی بہتی ہوئی ندی جھرنوںکے نیلے جل سے، ہری گھاس سے بھری اس چھت کے نیچے رہنے ابابیل آئے گی گارے کے گھونسلے میں بہت چہچہائے گی مہمان تحفہ لائے گا اک جانماز کا کھائے گا ساتھ کھانا وہ زائر حجاز…
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The Two Scholars
Once upon a time there were two scholars. One was named Liu Tschen and the other Yuan Dschau. Both were young and handsome. One spring day they went together into the hills of Tian Tai to gather curative herbs. There they came to a little valley where peach-trees blossomed luxuriantly on either side. In the middle of the valley was a cave, where two maidens stood under the blossoming trees, one of them clad in red garments, the other in green. And they were beautiful beyond all telling. They beckoned…
Read MoreA Legend of Confucius
when Confucius came to the earth, the Kilin, that strange beast which is the prince of all four-footed animals, and only appears when there is a great man on earth, sought the child and spat out a jade whereon was written: “Son of the Water crystal you are destined to become an uncrowned king!” And Confucius grew up, studied diligently, learned wisdom and came to be a saint. He did much good on earth, and ever since his death has been reverenced as the greatest of teachers and masters. He…
Read MoreRomans in Dorset: A.D. MDCCCXCV by Louise Imogen Guiney
A stupor on the heath, And wrath along the sky; Space everywhere; beneath A flat and treeless wold for us, and darkest noon on high. Sullen quiet below, But storm in upper air! A wind from long ago, In mouldy chambers of the cloud had ripped an arras there, And singed the triple gloom, And let through, in a flame, Crowned faces of old Rome: Regnant o’er Rome’s abandoned ground, processional they came. Uprisen as any sun Through vistas hollow grey, Aloft, and one by one, In brazen casques the…
Read MoreProut’s Madeleine by Kenneth Rexroth
Somebody has given my Baby daughter a box of Old poker chips to play with. Today she hands me one while I am sitting with my tired Brain at my desk. It is red. On it is a picture of An elk’s head and the letters B.P.O.E.—a chip from A small town Elks’ Club. I flip It idly in the air and Catch it and do a coin trick To amuse my little girl. Suddenly everything slips aside. I see my father Doing the very same thing, Whistling “Beautiful Dreamer,” …
Read MoreFirst Thanks Giving by Sharon Olds
When she comes back, from college, I will see the skin of her upper arms, cool, matte, glossy. She will hug me, my old soupy chest against her breasts, I will smell her hair! She will sleep in this apartment, her sleep like an untamed, good object, like a soul in a body. She came into my life the second great arrival, after him, fresh from the other world—which lay, from within him, within me. Those nights, I fed her to sleep, week after week, the moon rising, and setting,…
Read MoreThey are Hostile Nations by Margaret Atwood
i In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres ii Put down the target of me you guard inside your binoculars, in turn I will surrender this aerial photograph (your vulnerable sections marked in red) I have found so useful…
Read MoreMasaoka Shiki translated by Khawar Ijaz
The Soft breeze And in the green of a thousand hills A single temple ہر سُو نرم ہَوا لا تعداد پہاڑوں میں اِک مندر تنہا A travelling show The banner is wet In the spring rain تم بھی دیکھو تو بارش میں بھیگا بینر چلتا پھرتا شو The peacock Spreading out his tail In the spring breeze پر پھیلائے مور سر سبزی کے موسم کو کر دے ہور دا ہور Going out of the house Ten paces And the vast autumn sea چند ہی قدموں پر گھر کے باہر پھیلا…
Read MoreSol Varm Sunnan by unknown
Sun from the south, Moon’s companion cast her right hand over the sky’s rim. Sun did not see who labored in her shade, a gardener who had no heights to scale. Sun did not know where she had a home, yet the gardener’s hands found certainty in soil. Stars did not know where they belonged, while the gardener’s boots left prints in softened ground. And as the gardener’s work broached heaven’s margin, Moon did not know what strength she held.
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