Perhaps a better last line.
Dard di Raunaq
Ki pata-thikana puchde ho -
Mere sheher da na Tanhai ey
Zila: Sukhan-navaz
Tehseel:Hijar
Jeda daak khana Rusvaai ey
Oda rasta Gehrian Sochan han, te mashoor makam Judaai ey
Othay aaj kal Abid mil sakda ey -
Betha dard di raunaq laai ey.
The bright spectacle of pain
What address do you ask for?
My town is called Loneliness.
District: Lover of poetry.
Sub-district: Loss and longing.
The Post Office is Disgrace, and
The way there is to get lost in thought.
Its famous monument is Separation.
Abid can be found there these days
Making his pain shine bright.
On 5/11/05, Anand Vivek Taneja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is a short poem by Abid Tamimi,and my translation of it.
A poem in Punjabi, a language which I have no claims to, read in the Roman script.
Translated via an Urdu-English dictionary.
Dard di Raunaq
Ki pata-thikana puchde ho -
Mere sheher da na Tanhai ey
Zila: Sukhan-navaz
Tehseel:Hijar
Jeda daak khana Rusvaai ey
Oda rasta Gehrian Sochan han, te mashoor makam Judaai ey
Othay aaj kal Abid mil sakda ey -
Betha dard di raunaq laai ey.
The lively spectacle of pain
What address do you ask for?
My town is called Loneliness.
District: Lover of poetry.
Sub-district: Loss and longing.
The Post Office is Disgrace, and
The way there is to get lost in thought.
Its famous monument is Separation.
Abid can be found there these days
Sitting, and making pain a lively spectacle.
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
(with apologies to Dilbert)
http://www.synchroni-cities.blogspot.com/
Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that without a sense of humour you're basically pretty f***ed anyway.
(with apologies to Walter Benjamin)
http://www.chapatimystery.com/
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
(with apologies to Dilbert)
http://www.synchroni-cities.blogspot.com/
Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that without a sense of humour you're basically pretty f***ed anyway.
(with apologies to Walter Benjamin)
http://www.chapatimystery.com/
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