Shaikh Ayaz Poems

Can you hear?
Things speak.
This is the tanbooro on which Bittai played,
From its strings bloomed flowers,
...

I am a cactus from Thar,
and also the dew, which knows no thorns,
Is not pricked by them;
It falls on a deserted village
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Yesterday the chief Justice
spoke thus to Emperor Aurangzeb:
'Sarmad is lost in himself,
he is nothing but a rhymester,
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A child in the Laar
eating a watermelon
or playing
a red mouthful
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I said to the liyar tree,
'I am hungry
When will you bear red flowers? '
It was evening by then,
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Everything is an illusion
Except these bars
which I want to break
But cannot.
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A small lamp
am I
When the stars hide their face
in the sheet of winter rain,
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Who can say there is no freedom here?
Jackals are free,
Flies are free,
Here the intellectuals are free,
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Lorca!
You and I are kindred souls;

Born of eternity,
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You must remember this:
When I am dead and gone
And there appears a new poet,
Then it will be like
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