Category: Punjabi Poems

  • maae ni maae – maiN ik shikra yaar banaayaa

    Another masterpiece from Shiv Kumar Batalvi.  If you haven’t heard it, you have to… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-I2UiLbczQ] Punjabi version with English translation taken from http://www.ebazm.com/discus/messages/50/205.html?1120386173 Shikra maae nii maae maiN ik shikraa yaar banaaiyaa ohde sir te kalgii te odhi pairii jhaanjhar te o chog chugindaa aaiyaa nii maiN vaarii jaaNvaa! (1) ik ohde ruup dii dhup…

  • Ishtehaar – Shiv Kumar Batalvi

    Listen to this beautiful nazm by Shiv Kumar Batalvi – master of Punjabi poetry… and read the poem below.  Can anybody argue he was not the best? His voice, his rendition of this nazm, makes you shed some tears inside… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er33f4yWlh0] Ishtehaar ik kuRi jidaa naam muhabbat gum hai, gum hai gum hai saad muraadi…

  • ki puchhde ho haal fakeeraaN da!

    A masterpiece in my opinion by Shiv Kumar Batalvi! Such sadness in there and such a beautiful Ghazal in Punjabi. ki puchhde ho haal fakeeraaN da, saaDaa nadiyaaN vichhRe neeraaN da saaDaa hunj di jooN ne aayaaN da, saaDaa dil jaleyaa dil-geeraaN da eh jaandeyaaN kuj shoKh jahe, rangaaN da hi naaN tasveeraaN hai jad…