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Hassan Kuzagar:A Masterpiece
Hassan the potter - by N.M rashid
Jahanzad, down in the street before your door Here I am, burnt-out Hasan the Potter This morning in the bazaar when I saw you At old Yusuf the perfumer’s shop In your glance was that brilliance I’ve longed for, wandering nine years in madness During that time I never looked back At my ailing pots - Pots formed by my deft hands, Lifeless creatures of clay, color, oilglaze They whispered: “Where is Hasan the Potter now? He left us, his own creations He created us, then turned away like the gods!” Jahanzad, nine years passed for me As time would pass in a buried city; Clay in the clay-vats With its fragrance that used to ravish me Lay stone-hard Flagon and flask, jug and cup, candlestick, vase Props of my trivial life, of my art Lay broken I myself, Hasan the Potter, mud-mired, dusty-haired, naked Besied my wheel, hair disheveled, head on knees Like some grieving demigod, from fantasized Clay-and-nothing I molded pliant pots out of dreams. Jahanzad, nine years ago You were a child, but you knew That I, Hasan the Potter Had seen in your talisman eyes, your sky-warming eyes Brilliance Which made my body and soul an open road For cloud and moon Janhanzad, the dream-colored Baghdad night That bank of River Tigris That boat, the boatman’s closed eyes For a worn-out, grief-burdened potter One night was the charged amber His static being clings to, even now. His soul, his shape But that night’s flavor was a river-wave in which Hasan the Potter sank and has [never] come up. Jahanzad, in those days, day after day That ill-starred woman came When she saw me by the wheel, mud-mired, head on knees She shook me by the shoulders - (that wheel which had been, year after year, my life sole prop!) she shook me by the shoulders: “Hasan, look at you desolate house how will the children’s hollow stomachs be filled? Love-struck Hasan Love is a rich man’s game Hasan, look around at your house!” In my ears this mournful voice was like A call to a drowning man in whirlpool. Those heaps of tears were flower-beds, no doubt But I, Hasan the Potter, lived among ruins In a fantasy-city where not A voice, a movement A flying bird’s shadow Not a trace of my life existed. Jahanzad, here now in you street Her in the cold-colored darkness of night I stand before your door Head and hair disordered From the window those spell-drowned talisman eyes Flance at me once again Time, Jahanzad, it the wheel on which like flagon and flask, cup, candlestick, vase Humans are made and unmade I am a human but Those nine years that passed in the mold of grief! Hasan the Potter is now a dust-mound without Even a hint of moisture. Jahanzad, this morning in the bazaar At Yusuf the Perfumer’s shop, your eyes Spoke once again Their brilliant mischief Calls forth again in the dust-mound a quiver of wetness Perhaps to turn the dust to clay Who knows the scope of longing, Jahanzad, but If you want, I go back to being That potter whose pots Were the pride of every house and street, city and town Whose pots shone in the homes of rich and poor Who knows the scope of longing, Jahanzad, but If you want, I will go back to my forsaken pots To the dried-out vats of clay-and-nothing To the props of my life, my art So from this clay-and-nothing, color and oil glaze, I Can again strike sparks That light up the ruins of hearts. [A Translation] Its my favourute poem,and i will postthe original one IT IS STILL A DEBATE,THAT N.M.RASHID WAS A GREAT POET OR FAIZ AHMED FAIZ??? |
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“Hassan Kozagar” is a magnum-opus in the legends of love writings. It is a high time of Urdu literature and will magnetize its readers for the rest of their lives as an inimitable aspiration to be Hassan. Excellent poem created by N Muhammad Rashid. A brilliant translation as well.
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