ਕੁੜੀ ਤੇ ਨ੍ਹੇਰੀ / kudi te nerhi

ਇਹ ਕੁੜੀ ਨ੍ਹੇਰੀ ਤੋਂ ਬਹੁਤ ਡਰਦੀ  ਹੈ ਕਹਿੰਦੀ ਹੈ ਨ੍ਹੇਰੀ ਆਏਗੀ ਸਾਰੇ ਗੰਦ ਪੈ ਜਾਏਗਾ ਅਮਲਤਾਸ ਦੇ ਸੋਹਣੇ ਸੋਹਣੇ ਫੁਲ ਝੜ ਜਾਣਗੇ ਰੁੱਖਾਂ ਦੇ ਟਾਹਣੇ ਟੁੱਟ ਜਾਣਗੇ ਪੰਖੇਰੂ ਮਰ ਜਾਣਗੇ

ਇਹ ਕੁੜੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਾਣਦੀ ਨ੍ਹੇਰੀ ਆਏਗੀ ਨਾਲ ਵਰਖਾ ਲਿਆਏ ਗੀ ਸਾਰੇ ਠੰਡ ਵਰਤ ਜਾਏਗੀ ਅਮਲਤਾਸ ਦੀਆਂ ਨਾੜਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਨਵਾਂ ਤਾਜ਼ਾ ਖੂਨ ਦੌੜੇਗਾ

ਅਗਲੀ ਰੁੱਤੇ ਫੁੱਲ ਹੋਰ ਸੋਹਣੇ ਹੋਣਗੇ ਹੋਰ ਗੂਹੜੇ ਪੀਲੇ ਇਹ ਕੁੜੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਾਣਦੀ

- ਅਮਰਜੀਤ ਚੰਦਨ

Eh kudi nerhi ton bahut dardi hai Kahindi hai nerhi aayegi saare gand pai jaayega amaltaas de sohne sohne phull jharh jaangey rukhaan de taahne tutt jaange pankheroo marr jaange

Eh kudi nahin jaandi nerhi aayegi naal barkha leyaayegi saare thand vart jaayegi amaltaas diyaan naadaan ch saava taaza khoon daudega

Agli rutte phull hor sohne hongey hor guurhe peeley eh kudi nahin jaandi

- Amarjit Chandan

The poem is written by Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan (ਅਮਰਜੀਤ ਚੰਦਨ ). Listen to his poetry in his own voice at apnaorg .

Crossposted from https://parchanve.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/kurhi-te-nheri/

Comments:

Amarjit Chandan - Jul 4, 2008

I wonder why self-styled bloggers/editors tend to interfere (to put it mildly) with the original text. For instance the first two lines of my original poem kuRhi te ‘Nehri the present tense is used – …dardee hai/ …kehNdee hai. Discerning readers would see the difference – how the meaning changes in this particular poem by changing the tense. It made me laugh when I saw that the poem is tagged with the category of Women! The fear is not gender specific, I’m afraid. I’d like to quote a short poem by a great living Chilean poet Nicanor Parra: STOP RACKING YOUR BRAINS nobody reads poetry nowadays it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad

Amarjeet Ji, Thanks for visiting and giving valuable comments. I have updated the post accordingly from ‘see’ to ‘hai’. I did not have original text with me while i posted the poem thats why it occurred unintentianally. About poem being tagged with women, I thought it related to woman psyche . Its said poetry can have diffrent meanings for different readers.Anyhow i have scrapped the woman tag too. Thanks, Jasdeep

eh sadi mansikta hai chandan ji asi jande da fikr karde ha aunde da fiker ja jikar nahi kuj lok ne jo ruke ne pate te trail di boud vang par fikar na karo pate hor v pungar rahe ne thode vakt di changi kaivta hai hun ji bahut kuj badl gia punjab de munde jo soch sakde si khale nasia ne hun kudia bijlia to darn gia nahi bijlia nu rasta dikhon gia sorry babeo

Dear Brother Jasdeep: I enjoyed reading your blog. I also appreciate you being sensitive to comments from others. Can you find some more revolutionary songs by Sant Ram Udhasi and include on the blog? Thanks Harjinder

Thanks for your kind words, I will post Sant Ram Udasi’s poetry soon