Brief Interval (Chahat Ka Ek Lehma)by Chery Clarke In Hindi/Urdu Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

Main samaj rehi thee
jab main pyaar se
us sahas bhray lehmay main
teri gardan ko cHoo rehi thee
vo khawahish bhra asli lehma
meri bahadhuri k moD pe tha

aur agar vo moD bilkul sahi na tha
kuch idhar udhar phela hua tha
lakin kareeb sa tha
umeed thee us waqt kamray k konay pe
piano k stool ka paas
nakli.38 pistol k pass
chahat bhri aankhoN k paas
gallay k pass

jab muje umeed hoti hai
main safal nahin hoti
aao, mere paas aao agar
tumhari tooti khidki k
paas baDa jaDa paD raha hai
utho, oopar utho
is garm garm
chahat k lehmay main.

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Brief Interval
Cheryl Clarke

I knew what I was about
stroking your lovely
neck in the perilously
brief
interval at the intersection of
desire, the real, and feminist
derring-do.

And if the intersection is three
or four points of variance,
divergence, diversion,
aversion, and hapless brief
interval
larger than the grid,
in dread of a walled corner,
a piano stool, a
contraband.38,
and that flip of an
eye eros,
oh, throat

I don't do well with
expectation. Come up
here if it's too cool a
story below with your
windows cracked.
Higher is warmer
in this last,
fast
phantasmic
interval.

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