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 # 75

 
volo ha baaghvaano.......

(COME GARDENER!)


 
Come, gardener ! Create the glory of spring ! Make
Guls bloom and bulbuls sing - create such haunts !
 
The dew weeps, and your garden lies desolate;
Tearing their robes, your flowers are distracted.
Breathe life once again into the lifeless gul and the bulbul !
 
Rank nettles hamper the growth of your roses.
Weed them out, for look thousands
Of hyacinths are crowding at the gate !
 
Who will set you free, captive bird,
Crying in your cage ? Forge with your own hands
The instruments of your deliverance !
 
Wealth and pride and comfort, luxury and authority,
Kingship and governance - all these are yours !
Wake up, sleeper, and know these as yours I
 
Bid good-bye to your dulcet strains. To rouse
This habitat of flowers, create a storm,
Let thunder rumble, - let there be an earthquake !
 

Poem # 76

Bulbulas Kun.....

(FUSSY BIRD)


Fussy bird, you do not know
Who drink delight from bud and blossom:
Ravish spring in all her beauty -
Fussy bird, you do not know
 
New clapnets have been made for you,
And timer are the meshes;
The snare around the flower shrub
Is camouflaged in green.
 
Your pretty nest is on the bough -
But they'll burn and bring it down !
And, fussy bird, you will have .
To leave the garden soon !
 
We love a shady tree and wish
It were to live for ever,
But axe the one that gives no shade
Even if it's the proudest pine !
 

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