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Sohrab Sepehri Poems
- Water Let's not soil the water: Perhaps a pigeon is ...
- The Old Tale Of Night O you lost in the stellar green ...
- Friend She was great And belonged to the present time And ...
- Oasis In A Moment If you are coming to me, I am beyond ...
- The Flow Of Water When knowledge Still nestled by springs, ...
- Near A Distant Realm There was a woman at the door Standing ...
- Morning Glory Past the border of my dream The shadow of a ...
Sohrab Sepehri was born in Kashan on October 7,1928; a very talented artist and a gifted poet, Sepehri shot to stardom with the publication of The Water’s Footfall which was subsequently followed by The Traveler and The Green Volume. Sepehri died of blood cancer in Tehran in 1980.
Sepehri is so popular with the Iranians that he is usually known by his first name ‘Sohrab’ as if he is a ... more »
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Water
Let's not soil the water:
Perhaps a pigeon is drinking down there
Or a thrush dipping its wing by a far thicket
Or a pitcher being filled in a village.
Let's not soil the water.
This stream is perhaps running to a white aspen
To sooth a lonely heart.
A dervish may have dipped his dry bread there.
A lovely lady has come to the stream.
Let's not soil the water.
Beauty is doubled.
Sweet water!
Clear stream!
People are so affable there!
May their streams bubble!
And their cows produce abundant milk!
Never have I visited their ...
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