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Ghalib[0], whose every poem is like a heartbreaking Koan, although it's very hard to find good English translations: Let awareness spread wide its net of c
by nsns 12y ago
Ghalib[0], whose every poem is like a heartbreaking Koan, although it's very hard to find good English translations:
Let awareness spread wide its net of comprehension,
In my world of words, meaning is a bird of dreams.
A thousand wishes thus, that each demands a life,
I've done the best I could, but couldn't do too much.
(My translations)
[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghalib http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghalib,
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/index.html?#index http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/index....
- sharjeel 12y agoAnd here is a famous one from Ghalib: Rekhta k tum he nahi ustaad Ghalib Kehte hain Aglay Zamanay mein koi Mir[1] bhi tha Rough translation: You aren't alone the master of Rekhta, Ghalib It is said that there was also someone called Mir[1] in the previous era [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Taqi_Mir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Taqi_Mir
- lubujackson 12y agoNot the blossom of song not the veil of music I am the sound of my own breaking You toy with the length of your dark curls I am captive to my own dark thoughts We brag to ourselves that we are different this weakness has burdened our simple grief Now you have come and I find myself bowing this blessing a sadness this prayer a longing I am a fragment sounding the dawn you are the walls of my every echo