transcreation attempt

(original) by feroz zaveri

sirf..

kitne din zaaya hue
kaise kate
kahan gaye
kaun tha mere sath
ya tha main sirf

aur agar tha koi saath
hota koi paas apna?
ya paas rakhkar kisi ko
rehta main
hamesha sirf

galat na samajhna
sirf nahin soona
jab man mein ho khayal
aur hath mein kalam
kagaz hai sirf.....


attempted transcreation (by me)


wish...

so many days
wasted...
was it you
with me ?
or me with me
alone ?

was my own
with me ?
or were you
someone
i made my own ?

wish you could
understand..
its only about
gut spilled
with pen
on paper...


wish....

silences

soul's silences
speak of
what we have
lost

winter snapshot

coal black scorpio
loaded white chrysanthemums
today's hearse

sunil's version of the phone card haiku

phone calling cards
reduced to bookmarks
of times we spoke

phone calling cards
lapsed in to waste
we don't talk any more