Afzal Ahmed Syed (افضال احمد سيد)

اگر تم تک میری آواز نہیں پہنچ رہی ہے

Poems

• 1 چھینی ہوئی تاریخ | Translations: de
• 2 ہمارا قومی درخت | Translations: de
• 3 اگر تم تک میری آواز نہیں پہنچ رہی ہے | Translations: de
• 4 اگر آپ مریم کانسکی وچ ہوتے | Translations: de

Language: urdu

Translations: german (Wenn du meine Stimme nicht hören kannst)

اگر تم تک میری آواز نہیں پہنچ رہی ہے

اگر تم تک میری آواز نہیں پہنچ رہی ہے 
اس میں ایک باز گشت شامل کرلو
پرانی داستانوں کی بازگشت

اور اس میں 
ایک شاہزادی
اور شاہزادی میں اپنی خوبصورتی

اور اپنی خوبصورتی میں
ایک چاہنے والے کا دل

اور چاہنے والے کے دل میں 
ایک خنجر 

Translations:

Language: german

Wenn du meine Stimme nicht hören kannst

Wenn du meine Stimme nicht hören kannst,

schicke ich dir ihr Echo,

das Echo einer alten Geschichte

mit einer Prinzessin

und ihrer Schönheit.

Und zu ihrer Schönheit

das Herz eines Liebenden

und zum liebenden Herz

einen Dolch.

Afzal Ahmed Syed

افضال احمد سيد

photo © Goethe-Institut / Madiha Aijaz

* 21.03.1946, India
lives in: Karachi, Pakistan, Pakistan

Afzal Ahmed Syed, born in 1946 is a leading contemporary Urdu poet. He is well known for his experimental style of writing, and has published three collections of free verse and prose poems and one of ghazals. His collected works were published as Mitti ki Kan in 2009. In 2010, the Wesleyan University Press, USA, published a selection of his poems, Rococo and Other Worlds, translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi. In India, translations of his poetry have been published in Hindi in 1992 and in Bengali in 2010. He frequently translates from English and Persian. His translation of the complete Persian works of Mir Taqi Mir was published by Oxford University Press under the title Divan-e-Mir Farsi Maa Urdu Tarjuma.

photo © Goethe-Institut / Madiha Aijaz

It’s interesting to note that Afzal Syed had witnessed civil wars in Beirut in the 1970s during his stay there as a university student as well as Dhaka in 1971. He has been living in the volatile city of Karachi for decades. This violence and crises resonate in his poems.

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