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Friendship Dances — POEM 𝒃𝒚 Saleem Shahzad

Friendship Dances

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Friendship dances

        with cold rays of light

        on passing waves of water

Friendship dances

        on slices of pickles

        given as alms

                on slipping hunger,

On the wonder

        of pain

        on the desire of an adopted child.

Friendship dances,

        Wrapped in shivering memories

        on the shore of helplessness

        on the peels

        of teardrops

Friendship dances.

….

(Translated from URDU by Baidar Bakht)

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Friendship Dances 

Friendship Dances by Saleem Shahzad - Urdu Literature - Urdu Poety

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Friendship dances

          with cold rays of light

          on passing waves of water

Friendship dances

          on slices of pickles

          given as alms

                   on slipping hunger,

On the wonder

          of pain

          on the desire of an adopted child.

Friendship dances,

          Wrapped in shivering memories

          on the shore of helplessness

          on the peels

          of teardrops

Friendship dances.

….

(Translated from URDU by Baidar Bakht)

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  • Born 0n December 15, 1957 in Bahawal Nagar, Punjab, Pakistan Saleem Shahzad is a trilingual poet, novelist, translator and historian of Pakistan. He is a retired Government Officer. His literary work, spanning 45 years, consists of 10 books: 06 poetry collections 02 Saraiki novels, a book of history, translations of short-stories from Punjabi and Saraiki into Urdu. Saleem Shahzad received National Literary Award twice (on collection of Saraiki poems “𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘢 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘳”, 2007 and Saraiki Novel “𝘎𝘩𝘢𝘢𝘯”, 2012) and 𝘛𝘢𝘮𝘨𝘩𝘢-𝘦-𝘐𝘮𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘻 from the Government of Pakistan in 2023. He transformed trend of traditional poetry style and diction, using the unusual and untouchable subjects in his poems with his zigzag shaped to lines. His novels also provide rejuvenation to themes and diction of Saraiki novels. So, he may unquestionably be labelled with the honour as a trend setter writer and poet. Saleem Shahzad’s novel “𝘎𝘩𝘢𝘢𝘯”(Whirlpool), published in 2012, has been considered as prediction to the pandemic CORONA because novel depicts story of an epidemic which confines people to homes wearing masks. Now-a-days, he has been working on another novel in Punjabi language. His two collections of poems are to be published soon.

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  • Baidar Bakht, born in 1940, took his first degree in civil engineering from Aligarh, and M.Sc. and D.Sc from London University. He is a bridge engineer by profession, but now retired from full-time employment. He is Adjunct Professor of civil engineering at the universities of Toronto and Manitoba. He is renowned for his translations of modern Urdu poetry into English. Since 1974, Baidar Bakht has been living in Toronto, Canada, with his family.

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