Parveen Shakir

Parveen Shakir or Parvin Shakir (Urdu: پروین شاکر‎) (24 November 1952 – 26 December 1994) was an Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan.

Quotes

Poetry

Couplet

• A raindrop stuck up in my lashes
  and sank in the eye.
  • Sessions of Sweet, Silent Thought: translated by Mirza A. B. Baig, p.4

The Surveillance

• Even though the gusts of zephyr
  knock till eternity
  on the red stone walls
  behind the city of flowers,
  no change will occur.
  Only that they will tire themselves.
  • Sessions of Sweet, Silent Thought: translated by Mahmudul Hasani, p.4

Keep it in Mind

• Like the rest of them,
  will you also examine the white, crystal today
  in the haze and mist of slimy yesterday?
  Do what you will
  but keep it in mind:
  the sun has also been accused
  of having necked and cuddled the night.
  • Sessions of Sweet, Silent Thought: translated by Mirza Nehal Ahmad Baig, p. 20

Familiarity

• When the noisy tide receded
  from the shore
  the frozen shiny sands suddenly moved
  beneath her feer.
  The girl standing knee-deep in water
  came to herself and mused:
  'How familiar is this moment!'
  • Sessions of Sweet, Silent Thought: translated by Mirza Nehal Ahmad Baig, Poem no. 16, p. 26

External links

• Sessions of Sweet, Silent Thought, Selected Poems of Parveen Shakir: translated by Mahmudul Hasani, Mirza A. B. Baig & Mirza Nehal Ahmad Baig, 2nd edition, Arshia Publications, Delhi, September 2010