Double By Rae Armantrout In Hindi/Urdu Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

Do Guna

Ye mere ghar k paas ki pahaDiaN hain.
Badi satraiN hain unki jo pehchaani nahin jaati.
Un ko dekhnay k liyay ek ko do banaana paDta hai
aankh maartay logoN ki yamak ko sun-na paDta hai.
BaDi muskil ho jaati hai fir unki jaan-pechaan.

So kar jab main utha hoon
to saDak, saDak ki tarah hi dhiklaaee deti hai.
MoD k paas safed makaan hain
Do juniper k peD hain.
Is k elaavaa, aur kuch dikhlaaee main aatanahin.

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Double
BY RAE ARMANTROUT

So these are the hills of home. Hazy tiers
nearly subliminal. To see them is to see
double, hear bad puns delivered with a wink.
An untoward familiarity.

Rising from my sleep, the road is more
and less the road. Around that bend are pale
houses, pairs of junipers. Then to look
reveals no more.