#landay

[dwntoearth]

مخ دي كلاب ستري دي شمعي نديري يوهيزم جه بوراكه بتكه شمه

Your face is a rose and your eyes are candles;

Faith! I am lost, should I become a butterfly or a moth?

Pashto Folk Couplets (Lundaye)

[pollyj]

Voices of forgotten worlds : traditional music of indigenous people

Compiled and Edited by Larry Blumenfeld, 1993

[dvrkhanai]

انقلابی نه يې جانانه

ځکه یاری دی ماتا خوند نه راکوینه

You are not a revolutionary my beloved,

That’s why your love doesn’t give me joy!

-Pashto landay

[existential-celestial]

I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan (translated by Eliza Griswold, photographs by Seamus Murphy)

[honeyandelixir]

زما د گل په شان صورت وه ستا د بيلتون په خزان مراوی شوی مينه I had a face like flowers But, my love! Separation from you has turned me into autumn

Pashto landay

[medealand]

— Afghan folk poet & warrior Malalai, known as "the Afghan Jeanne d'Arc"

[ineffable-ne]

Da mohabbat bazaar ke ogarzedam,

Da cha awaaz da cha khanda kharseda.

Sok ba da stargo isharo pasi tlal,

Da cha andaaz da cha ada'a kharseda.

Zamong badrango cha parwa na kola,

Da khukolo khukolo ba khukula kharseda.

“Ghani” khafa ao khali las raghay,

Na ye ikhlas na ye wafa kharseda.

[cuibdepiatrasileguma]

Snake - Poetry Documentaries | Poetry Foundation

Poetry of the Women of Afghanistan.

”My darling, you re just like America /Even though you re guilty /I have to apologize.”