POETRY
The Divine Woman
— POEM by Saleem Shahzad
(Translated from Urdu by Baidar Bakht)
The
divine woman
tells prayer-beads
and cries her heart out.
Spoons
of lament
scoop at the kohl,
And the kohl demands a
necklace.
The
tears of the necklace,
A cart-full,
Are ready to be sold.
For
the sake of my friend,
Even we are ready
to sell the ornament of the
eye.
….
(Translated from URDU by Baidar Bakht)
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Saleem Shahzad
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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