Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: It is Dawn

It is Dawn

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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It is beingness,

And being here in the world!

Why do you want to know

The mystery,

the purpose?

It is dawn

Serene and sweet is the air:

Like my heart

Every leaf of the trees

Has a crimson green pulsation

With a fragrant, gentle breeze,

In the shimmering hum

of the silver light,

And soon the sun will rise!


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