Untitled, by Lorette C. Luzajic, Urdu Version Translated by Saad Ali

Untitled, Gray and Mauve, by Mark Rothko (USA, b. Latvia) 1969.

بلا عنوان
تم پیچھا کر رھے تھے
بھوتوں کا
صدف پیتے ہوئے اور
جن خلیج پر۔
ریتیلی ساحل پر
صرف سرمئی سوٹ میں ملبوس
میں نے تم سے اتنا پیار کبھی نہیں کیا
جتنا اس دن کیا
اور رات
روشن ستارے
اندھیری ساحل۔

​Transliteration:

Bila Unwaan

Tum picha kar rahay thay
bhooton ka,
sadaf pitay huway aur
gin khaleej per.
Raitilee sahil per,
sirf surmaee suit mai malboos,
mai nai tum say itna piyar kabhi nahi kiya
jitna uss din kiya,
aur raat,
roshan sitaray,
andhairee sahil.

Untitled

You were chasing
ghosts,
sipping oysters and
gin down by the bay.
At the sandy coast,
suited simply in grey, I
never loved you more
than that day,
and night, bright
stars, dark shore.

Lorette C. Luzajic, translated into Urdu by Saad Ali

The English version of this poem was first published in Aspartame, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Mixed Up Media Books, 2016.)

Saad Ali (b. 1980 C.E. in Okara, Pakistan) has been brought up in the UK and Pakistan. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Management from the University of Leicester, UK. He is an existential philosopher-poet. Ali has authored four books of poetry i.e. Ephemeral Echoes (AuthorHouse, 2018), Metamorphoses: Poetic Discourses (AuthorHouse, 2019), Ekphrases: Book One (AuthorHouse, 2020), and Prose Poems: Βιβλίο Άλφα (AuthorHouse, 2020). He is a regular contributor to The Ekphrastic Review. By profession, he is a Lecturer, Consultant and Trainer/Mentor. Some of his influences include: Vyasa, Homer, Ovid, Attar, Rumi, Nietzsche, and Tagore. He is fond of the Persian, Chinese and Greek cuisines. He likes learning different languages, travelling by train, and exploring cities on foot. To learn more about his work, please visit www.saadalipoetry.com.

Lorette C. Luzajic's creative writing has been widely published in hundreds of literary journals online and in print. She has been twice each nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net, with one poem making it to finalist. She has five poetry collections, two of which are ekphrastic: Aspartame and Pretty Time Machine. Lorette is the founder and editor of The Ekphrastic Review. She is also an award-winning visual artist whose works have been collected in at least 25 countries. Visit her at www.mixedupmedia.ca.