THE BEST OF MAHJOOR
(Selections from Mahjoor's Kashmiri Poems)
J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, Srinagar, 1989  
Translated by: Triloki Nath Raina
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Poem # 63

 
jaanaana tse kiti jaan jaan saamaana banaavim ....
 

 
Beloved ! I've made for you many a lovely thing -
Wine cups fashioned out of jessamine petals,
 
Enchanting tales woven from your short breath or two
(which is all your speech to hint a yes or no),
 
Pearls strapped from rain drops coming down
When my ardour soared up the sky as a cloud,
 
Fields of flowers smiling where it was desolate land -
Made desolate, in fact, by these very hands of mine !
 
I came to taste life's nectar but, enslaved by illusion,
Wove my own thoughts as chains to fetter me.
 
I learnt about the saqi's new wine of motherland,
For which I fashioned new bowls with an ardent passion !
 
Those times are gone when you could beg, beseech and get !
I donned the robe of pride, with no hem for supplication.
 
Justice till now was to be had as freely as the air.
I set up shops in every street to have it freely sold !
 
Many a covetous man was enticed with liberal sweets,
And many a simple soul with visions of the hereafter !
 
I adore the company of friends - all my brothers !
That's why, despite my faith, I've built a temple at home.
 
Mahjoor, I've set up shops for your wine in every place,
For it restores to sobriety those who've got drunk !

 

 

 

 

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