Feb
7
2009
On a Colourful Morning
by Partaw Naderi
I kissed her –
her whole body shivered Like a branch of almond blossom in the wind
Like the moon, like a star trembling on the water I kissed her –
her whole body shivered Her cheeks showed one colour her gaze revealed another
And the sun [...]
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Feb
3
2009
What Is Love?
What is love?
We have read a thousand treatises on it
and still do not know what we have read
read works of interpretation, astrology and medicine
and do not know where we began
we have memorised the whole of folk literature
poetry and song
and remember not a single line
we have [...]
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