'Mai Tenu Fer Milangi' (Punjabi)
Mai Tenu Fer Milangi
Kithe? Kistrah ? Pata nahin
Shyad tere takheeal di chinag banke
Teri canvas te utrangi
jan khoure teri canvas de utte
ik rahas-mai lakeer banke
khamosh tenu takkdi ravanhgi
jan khoure sooraj di lau banke
tere ranga wich ghulangi
jan ranga dia bahva wich bethke teri canvas nu walangi
pata nahin kistarah- kithe
par tenu jaroor milangi
jan khoure ik chasma bani hovangite
jive jharnia da pani udd-da
mai pani dia boonda
tere pinde te malangi
te ik thandak jahi banke
teri chati de naal lagangi..
mai hor kujh nahi jandi
par ena jandi
ki wakt jo v karega
eh janm mere naal turega..
eh jism mukda hai
tan sab kuj muk janda hai
par chetia de dhage
kaienati kana de hunde
mai ohna kana nu chunagi
dhagia nu walangi
te tenu fer milangi
Listen the poem's recitation in Gulzar's voice:
About the poet - Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam (August 31, 1919 – October 31, 2005) was a Punjabi writer and poet, considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border, with a career spanning over six decades, she produced over 100 books, of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were translated into several Indian and foreign languages.
She is most remembered for her poignant poem, Aj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah - "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegyto the 18th-century Punjabi poet, an expression of her anguish over massacres during the partition of India. To read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita_Pritam
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