Poet & writer
Peelu
ਪੀਲੂپیلو
Poet of Mirza Sahiban, the tragic ballad of lovers from the Sandal Bar, still sung as a folk lament.
In their words
Famous linesਮੰਦਾ ਕੀਤੋਈ ਸਾਹਿਬਾਂ, ਮੇਰਾ ਤਰਕਸ਼ ਟੰਗਿਆ ਜੰਡ।
مندا کیتوئی ساہباں، میرا ترکش ٹنگیا جنڈ۔
You did me wrong, Sahiban: you hung my quiver on the jand tree.
Mirza's lament, from Peelu's Mirza Sahiban, as it is still sung
Peelu was a poet of the seventeenth century, probably of the Majha, of whom almost nothing is known but his poem.
His Mirza Sahiban, short and violent, tells the story of the Kharal Mirza who rides off with Sahiban and is killed while he sleeps under a jand tree, after she breaks his arrows. It is written in the vaar style and has been sung by folk singers ever since.
His lines are quoted as the classic expression of the tragedy, and later poets such as Hafiz Barkhurdar retold it after him.