chungi mohabbat di salah:
jehray bahut door honday nay
unna naal mohabbtan nahin bundian.
jehra koee nazdeek hoey
pyaar ohday naal karo,
jiwain ik chungaa ghar banan leyi
ansi aasay-paasay day
pathhar chun liaanday haan
jinan o hi sardiian tay garmiian dekhian hon
jinan wichon ansi guzray haan.
socho, ohday naal pyaar karo
jisdian akhaan kaalian-kaalian nay
tay jisday ghallay wich
sunheri phulan day haar nay.
o tuhadi mout de baaray kujh jaandi hai.
uthay vi mohabbatan karo jithay
tabaahiian hoeean hon -
us sher de jism ton shehad khadda hoey
jisnu Samson nay maaria si.
tay buri mohabbat di salah:
jis aurat nay pehlay mohabbat keetee howay
ohnu tussin aapnay leyi
ik naveen aurat bana lawo,
fir jo kuch vu naveen aurat da bachchia howay
us wich naveean mohabbatan bana lawo,
is tarhan mohabbatan wich peyay rawo
jad tak kujh vi bachchia nahin rehnda.
-tr. Ravi Kopra
Advice for Good Love
Advice for godd love: Don’t love
those from far away. Take yourself one
from nearby.
The way a sensible house will take
local stones which have suffered in the same cold
and were scorched by the same sun.
Take the one with the golden wreath
around her dark eye’s pupil, she
who has a certain knwoledge
about your death. Love also inside
a ruin, like honey out of
the lion’s carcass that Samson killed.
And advice for bad love: With
the love left over
from the previous one
make a new woman for yourself,
then with what is left of that woman
make again a new love,
and go on like that
until nothing remains.
- Yehuda Amichai