The Sorrowful Song of Three Sagas is a poem written by Ahmad Shamlou, originally in Persian, in the spring of 1989. In the next lines, you can read my translation of it. I have also written a biography of Ahmad Shamlou, which is available on Sinarium. Read more Ahmad Shamlou translated poems on Sina[……]
ناراحتی ابر؟
یا از صورتم پیداست
تنهایی من؟
Are you sad o cloud?
or you can read it on my face
how lonely I am?
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با این حال عطر بهار نارنج هم بود،
شاخه ی رزی هم از دیوار آویخته…
but still there was the scent of orange blossoms,
and a rose branch hanging over the wall…
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In the Struggle of the Mirror and the Image is a poem by Ahmad Shamlou, the renowned Iranian poet, translated by me. (I have translated and published quite a few of Ahmad Shamlou poems on Sinarium.) I don’t want to go into details to decipher this poem for the readers, as poetry is something to be u[……]
مرگ می تواند در سایه روشنی عاشقانه برسد
می تواند بسیار وقت شناس باشد…
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گوشت گندیده بو می دهد
شاید اگر نمی داد همه چیزش قابل تحمل بود؛
حتا میلیون ها کرمی که رویت می لولند[……]
Ahmad Shamlou wrote “The Tablet” (in Persian: «لوح») in 1964, when he was 38 years old. This poem is from the middle stage of Shamlou’s life as a poet, when he was already a recognized poet in Iran. The Tablet has political, atheistic, and anti-war themes.
The Tablet is among my most favorite poe[……]
Saadi lived more than 700 years ago, but his poems are still completely intelligible to Persian speakers. He is among the most read and most loved Persian poets. His famous poem “All human beings are members of one frame,” adorns the wall the United Nations building.
This poem that I have transla[……]
درخت گیلاس
شاد باش می کند شکوفه هایش را
در جشن تولد زمین
I don’t know who the painter of this Japanese style painting is. My apologies to the artists!
Read about haiku and it’s origins in English.
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صبحی ابر-آلود
باغبان چمن می زند
عطر چمن ها
مهی در هواست
هنوز هم هوا گرم است
گرچه خورشید نیست
رودی گل-آلود
سمت شمال می رود
با قایقی زرد
نارنج های سبز
آویزان از شاخه ها
دارند می رسند
از دل دریا
کشتی ماهیگیری
تازه بازگشته
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نسیم می وزد
بر[……]
