۱۴۰۳ شهریور ۲۸, چهارشنبه

The Table of Poppies ( سفره ی شقایق )


 


We had laid out a green table

As vast as the crimson of the field's poppies

Which, with the yearning of the soil

Sprout once more

In this land

Time after time

 

With the rhythm of time's pulse

We sat in wait

To call upon the newness of the pure year

Light-hearted

To invite it into our home

And plant within our hearts

The joy of a day's dream

 

The sky was damp

And your eyes

And the light rain

That drizzled on the acacia's branches

To turn the leaden hues of winter

Pale with the blossom's garment

 

The air

Spoke of the city's cold

And of a wandering shadow

Searching for a familiar word

In the soil

Where still

There was no trace of your steps

And surely

It never truly belonged to you

 

We had set no adornments

Yet the glimmer of white dawn

On the flowing skirt of spring

Was something

We once had seen in dreams


 

Arsalan – Tehran

(March 27, 2022)

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