My entry on “Bijan Elahi” published in Encyclopaedia Iranica
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.