Once, I (Ek Baar Main) , A Poem Of Happiness By Jane Hirshfield In Hindi/Urdu Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

Ek baar main
ek pahaDi k haray maidaan main
saat Spanish saandoN sa
bina kisi naam se
soya sa hua tha.

ye sub ajeeb-pana mera tha
lakin main mast tha.

Waqat ki gardan pe
ek chiDia k do halkay se
paankh lagay hue thay,

jaisay koi mohabat main do lovers itnay khush hoN
k unko doosray k baray sochaiN ki zaroorat na ho
aisa muj ko lagta tha.

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ONCE, I

Once, I
was seven Spanish bullocks in a high meadow,
sleepy and nameless.

As-ifness strange to myself, but complete.

Light on the neck-nape
of time
as two wings of one starling,

or lovers so happy
neither needs think of the other.

-Jane Hirshfield