by Ahmad Shamlou
' A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes.
A thousand crying stars in mine.
' A thousand laughing suns in your footsteps,
a thousand weeping stars in my desire.
- Ahmad Shamlou -
Persian poet
December 12, 1925 - July 23, 2000
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by Ahmad Shamlou
I am not a story you can narrate
I am not a melody you can sing
I am not a sound you can hear
Nor something you can see
Nor such that you can know
I am the common pain
Cry me out.
- Ahmad Shamlou -
from Common Love
December 12, 1925 - July 23, 2000
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Ah, if liberty sang a song
little
as the larynx of a bird
nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall.
- Ahmad Shamlou -
from Song of the Greatest Wish
December 12, 1925 - July 23, 2000
Persian poet, writer and journalist.
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I found my hope in the ocean of despair,
My silvery moonlight in the dark night,
My love in the year of plight,
And exactly when-
I was about to turn into ash-
I went on fire.
- Ahmad Shamlou -
excerpt from Listen!
Persian Poet
1925 - 2000
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Come The Night
When was it and how
That breeze
Told me of your graceful amble?
How long has it been
Since your humble birth?
When was it and how
That fire
Told the story of my burning ecstasy?
How long has it been
Since a volcano last erupted?
When was it and how
That water
Talked of our flowing purity?
How long shall we wait
Until the sea storms again?
When was it and how
That the earth
Was an undeniable truth beneath our feet?
How long shall we wait
Until the birth of hope anew?
- Ahmad Shamlou -
December 12, 1925 - July 23, 2000
Persian poet, writer and journalist.
Ahmad Shamlou official
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Dry path, all through life
Having been born with a cry
In a hatred
Turning on itself.
Thus was the
Great absence.
Thus was
The story of the ruin.
If only freedom
Could sing a song
Small, smaller even ...
Than the throat of a bird.
- Ahmad Shamlou -
1925 - 2000
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