Monday, November 12, 2012

Leave the world to the poets

A poem by Mohammad Abdolmalekian
Translated by Maryam Ghodrati


Read the Poem in Persian 

Leave the world to the poets
 
Leave the world to poets
With no doubt
They will awake the words
And plant flowers and wheat in gardens
  
Leave the world to the poets
Desert and rain
Both will become happy
And both would blossom
From the fingertips of elementary kids

 Leave the world to the poets
With no doubt soldiers will sing lyrics and
Fall in love
And guns will put their heads on the hilts and
Won’t wake up

  Leave the world to the poets
Walls will be grounded and
Borders will fade
Trees would come to the streets
Will blossom in the bus lane
And birds will get on and
To all the citizens
Will give sunflower seeds
 


Didn’t you want this?
So why are you wasting your time?
Don’t be hesitant
And leave the world to the poets

 These wandering rhymes
If don’t come out from the chests
Will grow old and won’t become birds
And a world without birds
Is a hell that only shoots

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