Sohrab Sepehri

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A swan is suddenly startled from rest. She cleans her white wings from dust of the nile. Toghether with the delicate dance of the reed bed. The lagoon opens her wet eyes white.
Tonight I shall go ; Toward the wordless vast which ever calls unto me ; somebody called again : Sohrab !; Where are my shoes
I have a lot to say to you, Oh Bird! You who sing out of sight. Over the lagoons, green eyes do you fly, or Your wings by the spring of apprehension do you wash.Where are you hidden , Oh Bird?
Let us steal Life and divide it between two wonders. Let us see everything in the younders.
Let us clean our eyes; Let us see in another way; Under the rain,We should see our friends;Under the rain ,We should look for love
   Budhi

   There was a special moment, 
   All doors were open. 
   No leaves, no branches, 
   The garden of annihilation had appeard. 

   Birds of places were silent, 
   This silent, that silent, 
   The silence itself was utterance. 

   What was that area? 
   Seems a ewe and a wolf, 
   Standing side by side. (1) 
   The shape of the sound, pale 
   The voice of the shape, weak 
   Was the curtain folded? 

   I was gone, he was gone, 
   We had lost us. 
   The beauty was alone. 
   Every river had become a sea, 
   Every being had become a Buddha. 

(1) Refers to dawn

"The Foot Steps Of Water"

  Life's a pleasant tradition. 
   Life's wing is as vast as death. 
   Life's a jump the size of love. 
   Life's not something, 
   we put on the mantel of habit 
   and forget. 

   It does not matter where I am. 
   The sky is always mine. 
   Windows, ideas, air, love, 
   earth, all mine. 
   Why does it matter if sometimes, 
   the mushrooms of nostalgia           grow? 

   Let's take off our clothes. 
   Water is just a foot away. 
   Let's have a basket and 
   fill it up with all the greens 
   and all the reds. 

   We are not to comprehend;
   the secret of roses, but maybe 
   swiming in the incantation of roses. 
   Or may be looking for 
   the song of truth 
   between the morning glory, 
   and the century. 

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