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Showing posts with label Persian Poetry in English. Show all posts

Monday, 13 February 2017

Rumi (1207 – 1273): What is Love?

Rumi (1207 – 1273): What is Love?
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“What is Love?”, questions me a mate.
I respond to him: “I do not join this debate!”
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“If you become like me, you will see its gate;
Only when it calls you, you shall learn its rate!”
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Translation: Maryam Dilmaghani.
Artwork: Reza Rahimi Lasko.
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In Persian:
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پرسید یکی که عاشقی چیست
گفتم که مپرس از این معانی
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آنگه که چو من شوی ببینی
آنگه که بخواندت به خوانی
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Saadi Shirazi (circa 1210): I step with my heart

Saadi Shirazi (circa 1210): I step with my heart
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Sighting The Beloved, your rest flies away,
Don’t expect escape, captured in this tray!
With only your thought, I was mad and blind,
Curtains pulled away, spellbound is my mind!
If in my whole life, one day’s spent with thee,
This is my harvest, the rest sinks in the sea!
Looking for The Beloved, I step with my heart;
Strolling on feet, the journey ends at the start!
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Translation: Maryam Dilmaghani.
Artwork: Iman Maleki.
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In Persian:
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هر که دلارام دید از دلش آرام رفت
چشم ندارد خلاص هر که در این دام رفت
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یاد تو می‌رفت و ما عاشق و بی‌دل بدیم
پرده برانداختی کار به اتمام رفت
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گر به همه عمر خویش با تو برآرم دمی
حاصل عمر آن دمست باقی ایام رفت
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ما قدم از سر کنیم در طلب دوستان
راه به جایی نبرد هر که به اقدام رفت
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