Yasuaki Inoue's Japanese Haiku In Hindu/Urdu Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

mere bageechay main
jalti hue pattoN ki chitta
chamak rehi hai dhoop ki roshni main

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bharmaar patjaD main
ek bachchi ro rehi hai
bhayankar aag jaisay

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neeli aankhon wala bakra
sardi main seengh jhuka raha hai
aasman par us ko shaq hai

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murday k chehray k make-up ki tarah
aaj khoob sardi paD rehi hai
sardi shud safed hai

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dheeray dheeray baraf main jamay
kadam laitay huay, nangi chataan par
jaDay ka mausum aa reha hai


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Versions of Yasuaki Inoue's Haiku
TRANSLATED BY KATRINA NAOMI

Pyres of leaves burning
once again in my garden
blazing in the sun

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In the abundance
of autumn a baby cries
like a giant fire

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Blue-eyed billy goat
tilting his horns suspicious
of the winter sky

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Today it is cold
like a dead person's make-up
the cold is pure white

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Step by frozen step
winter comes creeping towards
the naked rock's skin

NOTES ON THIS POEM