This poem was translated by Professor Carlo Coppola as part of the MULOSIGE Translations project. You can explore our collection of Urdu Poetry here.

Professor Carlo Coppola, Oakland University

Posṭar / Poster

That one touch 

I got

From a body 

Sticks in my memory

Like a poster.

I’m tired 

From reading it over and over,

But yet I read;

I have to.

When will a new poster be glued up here?

.

From:  Āk̲h̲irī din kī talāsh (Search for the Last Day). Allāhābād: Shabk̲h̲ūn Kitāb G̲h̲ar, 1968. p. 42

             

That one touch 

I got

From a body 

Sticks in my memory

Like a poster.

I’m tired 

From reading it over and over,

But yet I read;

I have to.

When will a new poster be glued up here?

.

From:  Āk̲h̲irī din kī talāsh (Search for the Last Day). Allāhābād: Shabk̲h̲ūn Kitāb G̲h̲ar, 1968. p. 42