A QUATRAIN IN KASHMIRI WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

                                  

Inspired by a post of  Abdul Majeed Baba on Facebook , I wrote this quatrain  in Kashmiri :-

 "Dapaan chhus soor mala ha door tsal ha..

Kollan pyaath daaf traavith obbur vala-ha.. 

Chillas atch-ha  ba kuni sheena-maani goffi manz,

Zuviek yim naar-taet saari ba chhala-ha .."

I have tried to render this thought into English for friends who don't know Kashmiri :-

(Wish I could  smear this body with ash and move far away,

Move far away to sleep on the surface of  streams and rivulets,

Move far away to   slip into quilts of clouds ,

Move far away to to enter some freezing glacial cave 

and cold-wash the burns tormenting my  soul..) 

( Avtar Mota )

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