{"id":349,"date":"2008-02-17T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=349"},"modified":"2008-02-17T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T16:42:50","slug":"in-the-flowerbed-by-nosratollah-massoudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/in-the-flowerbed-by-nosratollah-massoudi\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Flowerbed \/  By Nosratollah Massoudi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Dedicated to Iranian-American poet<\/i> <b>Mahnaz Badihian <\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20080217-matthiola incana 01 xpo99km.jpg' width='124' height='83' alt='purple flower' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nSay, how many wings of a dove<br \/>\nHas been broken in this voice?<br \/>\n<!--more-->And how many nights and exiles have trickled on it drop by drop?<br \/>\nThat even the smoke of the burnt nests never let my heart alone.<\/p>\n<p>Say, which lovebird, again,<br \/>\nFace to face with its own grave<br \/>\nIn line with the mourners,<br \/>\nHas stood to see itself off<br \/>\nThat the geometry of death still<br \/>\nHas a strange shape.<\/p>\n<p>Say, which thunder drowns <br \/>\nThe bass and treble of this tone<br \/>\nThat even the seabirds <br \/>\nAround the tides<br \/>\nNever stop crying?<br \/>\n<b>\u201cI am alone Nosrat, alone\u201d<\/b><br \/>\nWith the nostalgic scent of the purple flowers<br \/>\nWhich beg me for you.\u201d<br \/>\nThe voice comes from the other side of the line<br \/>\nWith few words dispatching on the roof of this house<br \/>\nThe gloomiest clouds in the world<\/p>\n<p>So that the poor poet <br \/>\nShall be the soloist of the heaviest weep which by now<br \/>\nHas been bucketing over solitudes roof.<br \/>\nParmida!<br \/>\nI write with my eyes<br \/>\nThe melody of this lamentation<br \/>\nSo that the shoulders of all the lovers remain drenched<br \/>\nThat your solitude and my tears<br \/>\nBecome soaked epigraphs<br \/>\nWhich shoulder to shoulder go round and round in the Bazaar.<br \/>\nMaybe in an ally a school opens<br \/>\nIn which \u201clove\u201d emerges<br \/>\nAnd the scent of Leyli\u2019s hair and the practice of Majnunn*<br \/>\nIs nothing but an old school . <\/p>\n<p>Parmida!<br \/>\nTonight, but not tomorrow<b><br \/>\nWhen the resurrection\u2019s morning conveys me<br \/>\nI wish to die beside your solitude<br \/>\nIn the nostalgic bed of those purple flowers.  <\/b><br \/>\n&#8230;..<br \/>\n*Leyli and Majnunn are the literary equivalent of Romeo and Juliet of Iranian literature. <br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nTranslated from Farsi by:  Maboobeh Zaydi<br \/>\nEdited by:<br \/>\nMahvand Sadeghi<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to Iranian-American poet Mahnaz Badihian Say, how many wings of a dove Has been broken in this voice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"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\/349"}],"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\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}