Couplet poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar, Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar. English Translation. Oh Khusrau, the river of love Runs in strange directions. One who jumps into it drowns, And one who drowns, gets across.

Couplet 5 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Farsi Couplet: Zabaan-e yaar-e mun Turkie, wa mun Turkie nami daanum, Che khush boodi agar boodi zabaanash dar dahanay mun. English Translation: My beloved speaks Turkish, and Turkish I do not know; How I wish if her tongue would have been in my mouth.

Couplet 4 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Farsi Couplet: Gar khalq jahaan zinda bajaanand wa lekin, Mun zinda-e ishqam ki shaheed-e gham-e yaaram. English Translation: People think they are alive because they have soul in them, But I am alive because I have love in myself, And I’m a martyr due to the beloved’s affliction, (for, to a lover, nothing […]

Couplet 3 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Farsi Couplet: Dilam dar aashiqui aawareh shud aawareh tar baada, Tanam az bedilee beechareh shud beechareh tar baada. English Translation: My heart is a wanderer in love, may it ever remain so. My life’s been rendered miserable in love, may it grow more and more miserable.

Couplet 2 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Farsi Couplet: Gar jamaal-e yaar nabuad baa khayalash hum khusham, Khaana-e darvesh ra sham’ee ba az mehtaab neest. English Translation: If I cannot see her, at least I can think of her, and so be happy; To light the beggar’s hut no candle is better than moonlight.

Couplet 11 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Farsi Couplet: Mun tu shudam tu mun shudi,mun tun shudam tu jaan shudi Taakas na guyad baad azeen, mun deegaram tu deegari English Translation: I have become you, and you me, I am the body, you soul; So that no one can say hereafter, That you are someone, and me someone else. […]

Couplet 10 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Farsi Couplet: Ze shab bedaariye mun taa seher chashmash kujaa daanad? Ki O shab taa seher kaaray bajuz khuftan nami daanad. English Translation: How can her eyes reflect any sympathy With my night-long wakefulness? For she herself knows of nothing In the night, except sleeping.

Couplet 1 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Farsi Couplet: Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanast Zauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neest English Translation: The creaking of the chain of Majnun is the orchestra of the lovers, To appreciate its music is quite beyond the ears of the wise.

O Wondrous Ecstatic Eyes – Chashmay Mastay poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Chashmay mastay ajabay zulf daraazay ajabay, Mai parastay ajabay fitna tarazay ajabay, Behray qatlam chu kushad taighe-nihaan sar basajud, Oo ba-naazay ajabay mun be-neyaazay ajabay, Turk taazay ajabay sho’bada baazay ajabay; Kajkulahay ajabay arbada saazay ajabay; Haq mago kalma-e kufr ast darein ja Khusrau; Raaz daanay ajabay saaheb-e raaz-e ajabay. Translation- O wondrous ecstatic […]

Chaap Tilak poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay Prem bhatee ka madhva pilaikay Matvali kar leeni ray mosay naina milaikay Gori gori bayyan, hari hari churiyan Bayyan pakar dhar leeni ray mosay naina milaikay Bal bal jaaon mein toray rang rajwa Apni see kar leeni […]

Celebrate Spring Today poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Aaj basant manaalay suhaagun, Aaj basant manaalay; Anjan manjan kar piya mori, Lambay neher lagaaye; Tu kya sovay neend ki maasi, So jaagay teray bhaag, suhaagun, Aaj basant manalay…..; Oonchi naar kay oonchay chitvan, Ayso diyo hai banaaye; Shaah-e Amir tohay dekhan ko, Nainon say naina milaaye, Suhaagun, aaj basant manaalay. TRANSLATION- Rejoice, my […]

Bahut Kathin Hai poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Bahut Kathin hai dagar panghat ki, Kaisay main bhar laaun madhva say matki? Paniya bharan ko main jo gayi thi, Daud jhapat mori matki patki. Bahut kathin hai dagar panghat ki. Khusrau Nijaam kay bal bal jayyiye Laaj rakho moray ghoonghat pat ki. Bahut kathin hai dagar panghat ki. TRANSLATION- The road to […]

Babul poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Kaahay ko biyaahi bides, ray, lakhi baabul moray, Kaahay ko biyaahi bides…….. Bhayiyon ko diye babul mehlay do-mehlay, Hum ko diya pardes, ray, lakhi babul…… Hum to hain babul teray khoontay ki gayyan, Jid haankay hank jaayen, ray, lakhi babul…… Hum to hain babul teray belay ki kaliyan, Ghar ghar maangi jaayen, ray lakhi […]

Celebrate Spring Today poem with a translation – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry

Aaj basant manaalay suhaagun, Aaj basant manaalay; Anjan manjan kar piya mori, Lambay neher lagaaye; Tu kya sovay neend ki maasi, So jaagay teray bhaag, suhaagun, Aaj basant manalay…..; Oonchi naar kay oonchay chitvan, Ayso diyo hai banaaye; Shaah-e Amir tohay dekhan ko, Nainon say naina milaaye, Suhaagun, aaj basant manaalay. TRANSLATION- Rejoice, my love, […]

Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry

Remember when we played? Really was lots of fun Though that moment hasn’t stayed It’s gone; new ones have come I hold my head, rub my eye Those words you said encourage me to try Try to fulfill them By what I choose to do My hearts’ treasured gem “You’re strong […]

Sexual eyes poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry

I notice you wanting me, needing and lowering me with the passions in your lusting eyes, I see as I look through your eyes as you extract the content and emotions of my sex. How extremely physically sweet you feel but how your taste to me enhance a more uniquely mental feel […]

Satisfaction of my eyes poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry

Stimulant art of my eyes, your image entices my sight. Gloomily lost in your world, a tranquil sight ever seen in a girl. This physical lust in you I feel, my eyes must be fulfilling it’s own dreams. Measured by my heavenly desires, a satisfaction of my depiction. Seduced by her eyes I’m […]

Praying Drunk poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry

  Our Father who art in heaven, I am drunk. Again. Red wine. For which I offer thanks. I ought to start with praise, but praise comes hard to me. I stutter. Did I tell you about the woman, whom I taught, in bed, this prayer? It starts with praise; the simple form keeps things […]

In The Well poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry

My father cinched the rope, a noose around my waist, and lowered me into the darkness. I could taste my fear. It tasted first of dark, then earth, then rot. I swung and struck my head and at that moment got another then: then blood, which spiked my mouth with iron. Hand […]

Hawk poem – Andrew Demcak poems | Poems and Poetry

Wings open, wind-carried, an angel’s book. Talons ready to change music to that of funeral dirge. Fixer, finder, life-adopter, sailing through cool ether. Mouse, you are not your hallowed body. Spectacular, the pale glory of flight, sublimely alone. One sharp cry above the May iris, or by winter, over branching pipes […]

French kiss to knickers poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry

French kissing your lips with the very detail licking and tasting, exploring and touring but damn it’s tile flooring. Her magnificent smile as I feel the squeak of her pearly white teeth and soft gum sandwiching my tongue. Wow to the sight of her shape and the compliment of silk french knickers […]

Beachy Blues poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry

“you’re getting a whooped tail” father barks to son as i hold a mermaid’s nail spirit holding a ton Birds cross paths Along the shore Another woman laughs As waves righteously roar Sky now dark many eyes explore camera goes spark moment no more Along spirits sail Towards a setting […]

Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry

Remember when we played? Really was lots of fun Though that moment hasn’t stayed It’s gone; new ones have come I hold my head, rub my eye Those words you said encourage me to try Try to fulfill them By what I choose to do My hearts’ treasured gem “You’re strong […]

A Winter Twilight poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry

A silence slipping around like death, Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath; One group of trees, lean, naked and cold, Inking their cress ‘gainst a sky green-gold; One path that knows where the corn flowers were; Lonely, apart, unyielding, one fir; And over it softly leaning down, One star that […]

Trees poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry

God made them very beautiful, the trees: He spoke and gnarled of bole or silken sleek They grew; majestic bowed or very meek; Huge-bodied, slim; sedate and full of glees. And He had pleasure deep in all of these. And to them soft and little tongues to speak Of Him to us, He […]

The Voice poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry

Where is the distant voice That speaks like my soul? Buried beneath daylight’s clamor Gold and the seasons Beneath groaning streets And the ferment of cities In my grave of care And blond laughter In what bare tomb must I lie To summon the voice That speaks like my soul?

THE ROAD OF ANGEL poem – kapardeli eftichia poems | Poems and Poetry

A humid sweet daybreak in the wetted roofs of houses uniformly the one doubly in the other built in the line solitary road of Angel of Archangel lost the cool heart of Athens And you …you did not never enter in the houses of street with the stone walls the heart that not […]

The Final Poem poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry

A forge burns in my heart. I am redder than dawn, Deeper than seaweed, More distant than gulls, More hollow than wells. But I only give birth To seeds and to shells. My tongue becomes tangled in words: I no longer speak white, Nor utter black, Nor whisper gray of a wind-worn cliff, Barely […]