Archive for the ‘Poetry’ category

No Danger of Dictatorship in Country: Anwar Masood

December 20th, 2011

Anwar Masood is one of the most famous poets of Pakistan that belongs to the most difficult genre of the poetry that is Comic Poetry. This past October he visited Copenhagen where he shared some of his poetic lines that made people laugh like anything. i got these videos from my Friend Hassan Mubarik. Sharing some of the master pieces of that sitting find them below:

 

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Parvin Shakir – Documentary

August 20th, 2011

Apne Watan k liay dua karen k

August 21st, 2010

Apne Watan k liay dua karen k

Dua ki sorat me us ki khatir

Jo merre honto se lafz niklay

Jo meri ankhoon se ashk niklay

Onhe k badle me ay Khudaya

Tu jab bhe us ka naeeb likhna

Urooj likhna, Kamal likhna

Kabhi na lafz – e – zawal likhna

Aur us k nam ab k ane wale

Tama khushion kay saal likhna

Such Boom and Such Lowness

June 15th, 2010

Faisal Auditorum, Punjab University

Yesterday I was at one of my favorite places in this city and once this place was my second home. I am talking about Punjab University, Quaid e Azam Campus. The reason of my presence in the university was the program which was arranged by the department of student affairs in honor of Freedom Flotilla returned Mr. Tallat Husain. It was a great event and I had a great time sitting in Faisal Auditorium, let me confess I have never been in that hall when I was a student there in Punjab University.
All the speakers were amazing but this blog post is not completely about the event. Well I will definitely blog about the event later but for now I am sharing the Poem which was presented by the poet himself. Mr. Amjad Islam Amjad was one of the speakers at the event and he read this poem. He dedicated this poem to the people of Gaza, the campaign of Freedom Flotilla, and Tallat Husain. » Read more: Such Boom and Such Lowness

Two of my favorite Punjabi poetry pieces

April 4th, 2010

here are two of the very best punjabi poetry pieces i ever read one of them is with the translated version but after seein that the crisp which origional has was ruined in transaltion therefore decided not to translate the other one if there is some problem in understanding feel free to ask.

so here it goes.  


او وقت بڑا اچھا سی
جدوں مے نکا بچہ سی.

گولیاں ٹافیاں کھاندا سی.
نیکر کچھے پاندا سی.

نہ لوکاں دی کوئی  tension سی.
نہ ابے دی لگی pension سی.

نہ کڑ یاں د کوئی رولا سی. 
عشق دا کم وی ہولا سی.

آلو چھولے کھا ندا سی. 
Juampan shampan لاندا سی.

لوکاں دے بوہے پن دا سی.
سکون نال سو ندا سی.

ابے کولوں کٹ وی خندہ سی. 
تے فیر وی حسدا رندہ سی.

او وقت وی بڑا اچھا سی .
جدوں میں نکا بچہ سی.






it says: that time was great when i was a little kid, i used to eat sweets and tofees and used to wear nickers and shorts, at that time i had no tensoon of people and my dad was also not on pension then, i did not bother girls than and something like love and flirt was out of question, i used to eat patato and chick pea chat and jump withjoy, used to knock people door to disturb them and sleep with great calm, used to be beaten by dad but still the smile was there on my face as that time was great when i was a small kid.






میں ادی راتی نہا بیٹھا 
گل آپ سیاپا پا بیٹھا.

صابن مل ک پنڈے تے.
پانی د ا دونگا گوا بیٹھا. 

میں آکھاں تے صابن مل کے.
بلدے بلب نو ہاتھ پا بیٹھا.

میں کھرے دے وچ انج ڈگا،
کہ متھے سٹ لوا بیٹھا.

ٹوٹی وجی منہ دے وچ.
ناسان وی پروا بیٹھا.

کی دساں میں نہا ندے نہا ندے،
چودہ ٹانکے لوا بیٹھا. 

میں ادی راتی نہا بیٹھا 


گل آپ سیاپا پا بیٹھا.