بایگانی برچسب: bijan elahi

The Red Intellect by Bijan Elahi

 

Poem: Bijan Elahi

Trans: Mehdi Ganjavi

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The Red Intellect

Why should I travel? Why

Should I travel?

I, who can bewilder,

Years around my house

 –

Home: my longing- because

I am out of it-

The house, which appears in the light

appears on the peak of light…

The known bird

swallows out of kindness

-The Adam’s apple

moves for a second-

then its eyes

bring forgetfulness.

Snow by Bijan Elahi

Poem: Bijan Elahi

Trans: Mehdi Ganjavi

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Snow

She could only

Be embraced

Once.

She knew, then,

She would fall like an avalanche.

Yet she wanted

To find shelter in my embrace!

Her name was snow

Her body, snowy

Her heart of snow

And her pulse

Sound of dripping snow

On the thatched roofs…

And I loved her

Just like a branch

Broken under the avalanche.

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Circa 1962

First published in the second volume of the Turfeh literary magazine (Jung adabi turfeh) in 1964.