i read her article today..so thought maybe il give her poem...also its time will have to recharge my brains poetic card to start writin again now in vacs... : I Ask Waris Shah, Today I ask Waris Shah today to speak up somewhere from the graves And to turn to a new page of the book of love Once, when one daughter of Punjab wept, you had hit out by writing Today a million daughters weep and implore you, Waris Shah: Arise, O friend of the distressed! Arise, see the plight of your Punjab Corpses lie strewn in the fields and Chenab is filled with blood Someone has mixed poison into the waters of the five rivers And that water is now irrigating the land This fertile land is sprouting poison, the horizon has turned scarlet-red and the curses fly to the sky The poisonous wind that passes through the forest Has transformed each bamboo-shoot into a cobra The first snake-bite made the snake-charmer forget his spell And the subsequent bites have addicted the people They have been bitten again and again And in no time, the limbs of Punjab have turned blue Silenced are the songs in the streets, the thread of the spinning-wheels snapped The girls have fled the courtyards, the whirr of the spinning wheels halted The wedding beds and the boats have been thrown away Today the branch with the swing on the Pipal has broken The flute through which blew the breath of love is lost All the brothers of Ranjha today have forgotten this art Blood rained on the earth and the graves are leaking And the princesses of love are crying amidst the tombs All have become Qaidon (2) today, thieves of beauty and love Today, wherefrom shall we get yet another Warish Shah? I ask Waris Shah today to speak up somewhere from the graves And to turn to a new page of the book of love......
wow..nice poems yaar..it even has a link of her........i had remembered ther was once a poem on her posted before....i was hopin it wasnt the same..good u gave the link...her words r lovely......