Ehsanul Haque Poems

O Music, what sounds you speak into the layman's ear
What tones you breathe unique and clear
What colours you paint when my soul you touch
Softly caressing, refreshing, tear by tear.
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Nothing achieved. Monotony lingers still.
Those cries of despair, dripping tears, heartaches still.
In no way can the mind find peace.
Just couldn't get all that I toiled for.
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O Lincoln!
Under the stars a-twinklin',
Beyond the stage a-bustlin' - -
Of costumed, coloured puppets of Shakespeare
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Translation of a song by Majrooh Sultanpuri from 1966

Whether I am or I am not,
I will always bloom
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Translation of Akelepan by Meena Kumari
(Original poetry in Urdu)

Look. What is it that you see?
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Round and round it churns,
Cooling all with heat that burns
With blades quite very sharp,
It slices the air as in water a carp
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A dusty road stretched on before me.
The day had been embraced by night
And not a soul was in sight.
The starless grey sky was spread like a blanket
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A meet absurd we hath.
Absurd, I know not why.
Perhaps, I did feel queer,
To you I will not lie.
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