Where Does Such Tenderness Come From? Marina Tsvetaeva In Hindi/Urdu Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

'Where does such tenderness come from? '
BY MARINA TSVETAEVA
NEW VERSIONS FROM THE RUSSIAN BY ILYA KAMINSKY AND JEAN VALENTINE

Where does such tenderness come from?
These aren't the first curls
I've wound around my finger—
I've kissed lips darker than yours.

The sky is washed and dark
(Where does such tenderness come from?)
Other eyes have known
and shifted away from my eyes.

But I've never heard words like this
in the night
(Where does such tenderness come from?)
with my head on your chest, rest.

Where does this tenderness come from?
And what will I do with it? Young
stranger, poet, wandering through town,
you and your eyelashes—longer than anyone's.

1916

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KahaaN se laaey ho itna laaD-pyaar?
ye pehli baar nahin jab main ne curl kiyaya hain
apnay baal apni ungli ko ooper
main ne maari hain chumiaan hotoN pe
jo baD kar kaalay hain teray hotoN se.

Aasmaan dhul chuka hai, kaala hai
(KahaaN se laaey ho itna laaD -pyaar?)
baDay logoN ne muje nigah lagaa k dekha hai
main ne parvah nahin ki unki kabhi bhi.

Lakin kabhi bhi raat main
aisay lafz main ne nahin sunnay
(KahaaN se laaey ho itna laaD-pyaar?)
mera sar arram kar raha hai tumhari cHaati pe.

KahaaN se laaey ho itna laaD-pyaar?
Aur main kya karooN gi is se?
No-jawaan shaer, tum ghoom rahey ho is shahir main
tum aur tumhari palkaiN baDi hain sub se baD kar.