Millions of people speak in Pashto language, but not many people around the world know how beautiful the language is. Today, I was searching for Pashto landei - literally means short, only two lines - I stumbled upon a four lines love poem, which I thought deserved to be translated into English. That is what I did. --------- Lover, he cries day and night, the pain of his love but the beloved is a stony-hearted one who spills blood from the lover's heart Oh, her eyes! her eyebrows, like bows of war shoot the eyelashes into my heart. O people! Don't you see the wounds of her arrows in my heart? مین چه آشنایی کا، شپه ور څ به گریانی کا شهی، ده ستمگاره، خوشحال ز ړ و به زخمی کا لندۍ لری د ورڅـیو، با ڼو غشی کاریکا پرهار می گوره خلقه، دَ دلبر دَ تیر نبنان سو In Farsi عاشق، دردِ عشق خویش میگرید، شبها و روزها معشوقه، جفاکار است، میريزد خونِ سرخ قلبش را ابروانش کمان جنگی است و تيرهايِ مژگانش کشنده ای مردم زخمهای تیر كمان یار را در من ببینید Poet: Unknow...
sporadic thoughts and reflections of an anthropology phd student