Garden And Gardeners Poem by Peshawa Kakayi

1
Unless the flower was awake at the break of day
The gardener didn't open the rendezvous doors for lovers.
The flower began to bloom, but soon it sneezed and did fade away.
The gardener was not able to secern petals from tears.


2
In the mornings the gardener cleans
The dust out of the flower petals face,
When they're dustless,
Delicately the flower manifests its grace.


3
While the gardener was laying
In the shade of a tree to doze,
The flower withered and
The garden put on a yellow cloth.


4
When the gardener is asleep,
The grass calls something to play flute in hiding.
When the gardener is awake,
He is stunned by the flower, to the grass it is chanting.


5
Oh please!
Flowers! Grass! Trees!
Listen!
The gardener reads Zarathustra's quote 'good words, good deeds, and good thoughts'
To the garden,
Thus, you realize how you will be born again,
After departing!

6
It seems like God
cleaned the dust on the flower petals minutely.
With few of his dewdrops
He formed clay delicately
With a breath, it became a living soul,
So the dust on the flower petals is the origin of mankind whole.



7
When the garden senses the melodies,
The grass dances and
For them, the gardener chants!

8
The garden has green blues,
At the end, its beard turns yellowy,
Besides, the flower is the garden's offspring,
At the end, it will be a wild offspring likely.
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2007
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Garden and Gardeners
peshawa kakayi
Translated by: Daliya Raouf