{"id":210,"date":"2006-11-06T07:04:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T07:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=210"},"modified":"2006-11-06T07:04:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T07:04:13","slug":"life-by-morteza-miraftabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/life-by-morteza-miraftabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Life by Morteza Miraftabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Life<\/b><br \/>\n<i>By  Morteza Miraftabi<br \/>\nTranslated from Persian by: Mahnaz Badihian<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Every morning I wake up <\/p>\n<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/7\/20061106-morteza.jpg' width='85' height='104' alt='Morteza Miraftabi' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nWith death next to me<br \/>\nOr in the middle of night<br \/>\nDeath is in a window ,a mirror<br \/>\nOr a doorway shoulder to <br \/>\nShoulder with me watches last night\u2019s rain<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->Death so kindly smiles at me<br \/>\nBreakfast with Death<br \/>\nA few cups of tea and honey with it<br \/>\nA piece of bread<\/p>\n<p>Death whistles at me<br \/>\nSings poems to me and I tell him <br \/>\nOf my dreams<\/p>\n<p>From the first day of school<br \/>\nDeath does not question me <br \/>\nListens<br \/>\nWe go out together<br \/>\nWe ride together<br \/>\nWe visit old streets<\/p>\n<p>Death gives ride to a little girl<br \/>\nWhich is the most beautiful child <br \/>\nOn earth. <br \/>\nWe pedal to the mountain creeks<br \/>\nDeath reads a poem<br \/>\nDeath whistles<br \/>\nDeath jokes<br \/>\nDeath sings<br \/>\nRivers, trees, bushes<br \/>\nBecome alert and<br \/>\nNight talks to me from me to me.<\/p>\n<p>Death drinks wine<br \/>\nEmpties all the glasses.<br \/>\nWe are drunk, very drunk<br \/>\nAnd fall sleep in each other\u2019s arm <br \/>\nOh,<br \/>\nAt night the world is so beautiful<br \/>\nIn the arms of Death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life By Morteza Miraftabi Translated from Persian by: Mahnaz Badihian Every morning I wake up With death next to me Or in the middle of night Death is in a window ,a mirror Or a doorway shoulder to Shoulder with me watches last night\u2019s rain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}