Pride
A Lizard Walked Beside Me in the Desert
در بادیه سوسماری با من راه می سپرد و به هر قدم نانی از من می طلبید و من که انبانی فراخ داشتم به مزاح به او می گفتم که انبان من بی پایان است، بیا!… بادیه را پیمودم انبان های نان را به پایان بردم و انبان روزها را پرداختم و چه پرورانیدم مگر […]
Coming Back from the Hemp Plantation
در بادیه سوسماری با من راه می سپرد و به هر قدم نانی از من می طلبید و من که انبانی فراخ داشتم به مزاح به او می گفتم که انبان من بی پایان است، بیا!… بادیه را پیمودم انبان های نان را به پایان بردم و انبان روزها را پرداختم و چه پرورانیدم مگر […]
I Will Become a Traveller Again
دوباره مرد سفر خواهم شد گره کفش ها را خواهم بست خواهم گذاشت ناخن ها بروید به آوارگی و موی زنخدانم انبوه شود چون انبوهی این بامدادها که در میان من و مرگی زیبا قرار گرفته است. به مرگ زیبای خویش نزدیک خواهم شد؛ چون زایری غریب، در میان صورت ها خواهم گردید چون پرنده […]
Kabul and Peshawar Are the Closest of Friends
پېښور او کابل دواړه دوه ياران دي لکه دوې سترګې په يو مخ د جانان دي ما چې ووژني ځواني او ژوندون راکړي که د دغه که د هغه ښار خوبان دي پښتانه په خپلو ټکو کې معنا دي خوشبويۍ دي په ولاړه کې روان دي د دنيا د ابادۍ دعوې دروغ دي چې تر […]
Pir Muhammad Karwaan
Pir Muhammad Karwaan is a well known Pashto poet. Now in his late forties, he was born in Khost in Afghanistan. Karwaan migrated to Peshawar in 1990 and lived there for more than a decade. He returned to Kabul after the end of the Taliban regime; he works with the BBC’s Afghan Education Project. Pir […]
Parween Faiz Zadah Malaal
Parween Faiz Zadah Malaal is one of the most popular women poets writing in Pashto. Born in 1957, in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, Parween Malaal got an education in her native city of Kandahar before graduating from Kabul University. She began her career as a journalist by writing for a prominent paper, Tolo-e-Afghan, published in […]
Partaw Naderi
Partaw Naderi was born in Badakhshan a northern province of Afghanistan in 1331 [1953]. He studied in his birthplace and graduated from the Faculty of Sciences at Kabul University in 1354 [1976]. He was imprisoned in the notorious Pul-e-Charki prison by the Soviet-backed regime for three years in the 1970s shortly after he’d begun to […]
Reza Mohammadi
The prize-winning poet, Reza Mohammadi – widely regarded as one of the most exciting young poets writing in Persian today – was born in Kandahar in 1979. He studied Islamic Law and then Philosophy in Iran before obtaining an MA in Globalisation from London Metropolitan University. His three collections of poetry have gained him many […]