{"id":254,"date":"2007-01-30T19:50:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T19:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=254"},"modified":"2007-01-30T19:50:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T19:50:19","slug":"2-poems-by-nosratollah-massoudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/2-poems-by-nosratollah-massoudi\/","title":{"rendered":"2 poems by: Nosratollah Massoudi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like Last Year<\/b><\/p>\n

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\n By Nosratollah Massoudi<\/b>
\nTranslated From Persian by Mahnaz Badihian<\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

I come to visit you
\nWithout flowers or chocolates
\nLike Last Year<\/b><\/p>\n

By Nosratollah Massoudi<\/p>\n

I come to visit you<\/p>\n

Without flowers or chocolates<\/p>\n

You see that I have flipped through your hair<\/p>\n

So many times I am dark<\/p>\n

You stare at me<\/p>\n

And I become a sky that<\/p>\n

fists of stars are thrown in its face<\/p>\n

However the gardens in his sleeves<\/p>\n

Are ashamed of empty baskets<\/p>\n

I come to visit you<\/p>\n

Without flowers or chocolates<\/p>\n

Don’t take it personally<\/p>\n

That they wanted us to be<\/p>\n

Like last year, jobless<\/p>\n

The Smell of a Wet Pussy willow<\/b><\/p>\n

By Nostratollah Massoudi<\/p>\n

Till the old memories lose color<\/p>\n

Your shoulders will fold away<\/p>\n

The dreams of that blue dress<\/p>\n

The dear aroma of wet pussy willows<\/p>\n

Will wrap the taste of a virgin kiss<\/p>\n

Under the sleepless bed sheet<\/p>\n

Parmida, is it from the light of your shoulder’s<\/p>\n

That the open sun, again, with closed eyes <\/p>\n

And the uprising of your tresses,<\/p>\n

Has closed the way to these<\/p>\n

Tired eyes?<\/p>\n

That without seeing<\/p>\n

From all four corners<\/p>\n

I am whipped<\/p>\n

And again I catch flight<\/p>\n

With your smile<\/p>\n

Then let them whip <\/p>\n

I am the one that the Angel’s dust kneads<\/p>\n

And without love<\/p>\n

I won’t become a humane<\/p>\n

Till I can knit your perfume<\/p>\n

In the body of this earth<\/p>\n

So tell them to whip<\/p>\n

But ask them to tell me<\/p>\n

Which brides’ dress I should fold<\/p>\n

Carefully<\/p>\n

So the perfume of the algae<\/p>\n

Around Zayandeh Rud<\/p>\n

Won’t flow away from your veins<\/p>\n

And my dreams next to your bosom<\/p>\n

Stay flowing <\/p>\n

Translated From Persian by Mahnaz Badihian<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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