Dear all,
some very prominent poetic expressions from Pakistani Urdu poetry....
'Dedication ' by Ishrat Afreen
I grew
Taller than my father
And my mother won
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'Introduction' by Ishrat Afreen
Who am I
don't scratch old wounds
Who am I
Not what you think I am.
I have grown up playing in the dust of my alleyways
I lerant to fight for myself at an age when others dream dreams
I am that winsome bud which blooms on my forefathers graves
Ans must smilingly endure every punishment merely because it exists
I have no name
Call me by the name
Of the great Ghalib who came before me
By the name of Mir
Mir, who was hailed as the god of poetics and verse
But who died in poverty
The Great Ghalib
who had to beg for his wine
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'Surah-e- Yaaseen' by Fahmida Riyaz
Late at night, this eerie silence!
in this dimly dark pathway,
with hurriedly advancing footsteps,
I am a lone woman.
For a long time now I have heard
for the sound of footsteps following me
Home!
My Home!
How do I get to my home?
With parched throat and a sinking heart I think.
Perhaps I have forgotten my way,
this way is not my way,
all the alleyways are marked here
that alley has no name
and for the miles, holding their breath,
all these houses are unfamiliar.
There! Even the fragmented yellow moon
has drowned in the dark leaves.
No there is nothing
Except in my mouth, heavy with fear and paralysed my tongue.
Or, rising upwards, through the soles my feet,
suffering each and every pore of my body,
a certain dampness
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