O ROSE , WHEN SHALL YOU BLOOM ? ....KAR FOLIHEM LO , GOLAABO LO..

                                       

MOTHER  AND CHILD .......(KAR  FOLIHEM  LO   GOLAABO LO.......)

When shall you bloom, O tiny and delicate rose of my garden?

Does this mother sing Assad ullah Mir's  Kashmiri song to her child? To me it looks so.Our mothers  have also expressed similar feelings . I quote some lines from the popular   Kashmiri  song :-

" Kar folihem lo golaabo lo
Shar tsalihem lo golaabo lo
Aarwal chhus dazmitchai naarai
Khaar tsalihem lo golaabo lo
Thaeri  ,baagus lollakein  chamanun
Mushaq malihem lo golaabo lo
Ashq-pechaan Nazeen sarvas
Paan valihem lo golaabo lo.."

For my friends who don't understand Kashmiri, I have rendered this beautiful  song into simple English

(  O Rose! My little Rose, When shall you bloom?
O Rose ! When shall my suppressed desires get fulfilled?

Like the wild rose flower ( Aarwal) ,
I have remained  uncared for in this life,
O Rose ,when you bloom, I may not feel so anymore.

The branches, the flower beds and the garden  ,
Everything shall turn  fragrant  ,
O rose when you bloom.

The ipomoea creeper (Ashaq Pehchaan)shall wrap itself
around the cypress tree,
when you bloom o rose, my little rose.
,

O Rose ,my little Rose ,
When shall you bloom..)

(Avtar Mota)


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