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Farrokhzad, Forough</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Wind Will Take Us</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>In my small night, ah</b></div> <div> <B>the wind has a date with the leaves of the trees</b></div> <div> <B>in my small night there is agony of destruction</b></div> <div> <B>listen</b></div> <div> <B>do you hear the darkness blowing?</b></div> <div> <B>I look upon this bliss as a stranger</b></div> <div> <B>I am addicted to my despair.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>listen do you hear the darkness blowing?</b></div> <div> <B>something is passing in the night</b></div> <div> <B>the moon is restless and red</b></div> <div> <B>and over this rooftop</b></div> <div> <B>where crumbling is a constant fear</b></div> <div> <B>clouds, like a procession of mourners</b></div> <div> <B>seem to be waiting for the moment of rain.</b></div> <div> <B>a moment</b></div> <div> <B>and then nothing</b></div> <div> <B>night shudders beyond this window</b></div> <div> <B>and the earth winds to a halt</b></div> <div> <B>beyond this window</b></div> <div> <B>something unknown is watching you and me.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>O green from head to foot</b></div> <div> <B>place your hands like a burning memory</b></div> <div> <B>in my loving hands</b></div> <div> <B>give your lips to the caresses</b></div> <div> <B>of my loving lips</b></div> <div> <B>like the warm perception of being</b></div> <div> <B>the wind will take us</b></div> <div> <B>the wind will take us.</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Forough Farrokhzad</I></div> <div> <I>Translated by Ahmad Karimi Hakkak</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Another Birth</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>My whole being is a dark chant</b></div> <div> <B>which will carry you</b></div> <div> <B>perpetuating you</b></div> <div> <B>to the dawn of eternal growths and blossoming</b></div> <div> <B>in this chant I sighed you sighed</b></div> <div> <B>in this chant</b></div> <div> <B>I grafted you to the tree to the water to the fire.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Life is perhaps</b></div> <div> <B>a long street through which a woman holding</b></div> <div> <B>a basket passes every day</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Life is perhaps</b></div> <div> <B>a rope with which a man hangs himself from a branch</b></div> <div> <B>life is perhaps a child returning home from school.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette</b></div> <div> <B>in the narcotic repose between two love-makings</b></div> <div> <B>or the absent gaze of a passerby</b></div> <div> <B>who takes off his hat to another passerby</b></div> <div> <B>with a meaningless smile and a good morning .</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Life is perhaps that enclosed moment</b></div> <div> <B>when my gaze destroys itself in the pupil of your eyes</b></div> <div> <B>and it is in the feeling</b></div> <div> <B>which I will put into the Moon's impression</b></div> <div> <B>and the Night's perception.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>In a room as big as loneliness</b></div> <div> <B>my heart</b></div> <div> <B>which is as big as love</b></div> <div> <B>looks at the simple pretexts of its happiness</b></div> <div> <B>at the beautiful decay of flowers in the vase</b></div> <div> <B>at the sapling you planted in our garden</b></div> <div> <B>and the song of canaries</b></div> <div> <B>which sing to the size of a window.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ah</b></div> <div> <B>this is my lot</b></div> <div> <B>this is my lot</b></div> <div> <B>my lot is</b></div> <div> <B>a sky which is taken away at the drop of a curtain</b></div> <div> <B>my lot is going down a flight of disused stairs</b></div> <div> <B>a regain something amid putrefaction and nostalgia</b></div> <div> <B>my lot is a sad promenade in the garden of memories</b></div> <div> <B>and dying in the grief of a voice which tells me</b></div> <div> <B>I love</b></div> <div> <B>your hands.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I will plant my hands in the garden</b></div> <div> <B>I will grow I know I know I know</b></div> <div> <B>and swallows will lay eggs</b></div> <div> <B>in the hollow of my ink-stained hands.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I shall wear</b></div> <div> <B>a pair of twin cherries as ear-rings</b></div> <div> <B>and I shall put dahlia petals on my finger-nails</b></div> <div> <B>there is an alley</b></div> <div> <B>where the boys who were in love with me</b></div> <div> <B>still loiter with the same unkempt hair</b></div> <div> <B>thin necks and bony legs</b></div> <div> <B>and think of the innocent smiles of a little girl</b></div> <div> <B>who was blown away by the wind one night.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>There is an alley</b></div> <div> <B>which my heart has stolen</b></div> <div> <B>from the streets of my childhood.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The journey of a form along the line of time</b></div> <div> <B>inseminating the line of time with the form</b></div> <div> <B>a form conscious of an image</b></div> <div> <B>coming back from a feast in a mirror</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And it is in this way</b></div> <div> <B>that someone dies</b></div> <div> <B>and someone lives on.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>No fisherman shall ever find a pearl in a small brook</b></div> <div> <B>which empties into a pool.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I know a sad little fairy</b></div> <div> <B>who lives in an ocean</b></div> <div> <B>and ever so softly</b></div> <div> <B>plays her heart into a magic flute</b></div> <div> <B>a sad little fairy</b></div> <div> <B>who dies with one kiss each night</b></div> <div> <B>and is reborn with one kiss each dawn.</b></div> <bR> <div> <I>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Border Walls</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now, again in the silent night, </b></div> <div> <B>sequestrant walls, border walls </b></div> <div> <B>like plants entwine, </b></div> <div> <B>so they may be the guardians of my love. </b></div> <div> <B>Now, again the town's evil murmurs, </b></div> <div> <B>like agitated schools of fish, </b></div> <div> <B>flee the darkness of my extremities. </b></div> <div> <B>Now, again windows rediscover themselves </b></div> <div> <B>in the pleasure of contact with scattered perfumes, </b></div> <div> <B>and trees, in slumberous orchards, shed their bark, </b></div> <div> <B>and soil, with its thousand inlets </b></div> <div> <B>inhales the dizzy particles of the moon. </b></div> <div> <B>***</b></div> <div> <B>Now </b></div> <div> <B>come closer </b></div> <div> <B>and listen </b></div> <div> <B>to the anguished beats of my love, </b></div> <div> <B>that spread </b></div> <div> <B>like the tom-tom of African drums </b></div> <div> <B>along the tribe of my limbs. </b></div> <div> <B>I, feel. </b></div> <div> <B>I know </b></div> <div> <B>which moment </b></div> <div> <B>is the moment of prayer. </b></div> <div> <B>Now stars </b></div> <div> <B>are lovers. </b></div> <div> <B>In night's refuge, </b></div> <div> <B>from innermost breezes, I waft. </b></div> <div> <B>In night's refuge, I </b></div> <div> <B>tumble madly forth </b></div> <div> <B>with my ample tresses, in your palms, </b></div> <div> <B>and I offer you the equatorial flowers of this young tropic. </b></div> <div> <B>Come with me, </b></div> <div> <B>come to that star with me </b></div> <div> <B>that is centuries away </b></div> <div> <B>from earth's concretion and futile scales, </b></div> <div> <B>and no one there </b></div> <div> <B>is afraid of light. </b></div> <div> <B>On islands adrift upon the waters, I breathe. </b></div> <div> <B>I am in search of a share in the expansive sky, </b></div> <div> <B>void of the swell of vile thoughts. </b></div> <div> <B>Refer with me, </b></div> <div> <B>refer with me </b></div> <div> <B>to the source of all being, </b></div> <div> <B>to the sanctified center of a single origin, </b></div> <div> <B>to the moment I was created from you </b></div> <div> <B>refer with me, </b></div> <div> <B>I am not complete from you. </b></div> <div> <B>Now, </b></div> <div> <B>on the peaks of my breasts, </b></div> <div> <B>doves are flying. </b></div> <div> <B>Now, </b></div> <div> <B>within the cocoon of my lips, </b></div> <div> <B>butterfly kisses are immersed in thoughts of flight. </b></div> <div> <B>Now, </b></div> <div> <B>the altar of my body </b></div> <div> <B>is ready for love's worship. </b></div> <div> <B>Refer with me, </b></div> <div> <B>I'm powerless to speak </b></div> <div> <B>because I love you, </b></div> <div> <B>because "I love you" is a phrase </b></div> <div> <B>from the world of futilities </b></div> <div> <B>and antiquities and redundancies. </b></div> <div> <B>Refer with me, </b></div> <div> <B>I'm powerless to speak. </b></div> <div> <B>In night's refuge, let me make love to the moon, </b></div> <div> <B>let me be filled </b></div> <div> <B>with tiny raindrops, </b></div> <div> <B>with undeveloped hearts, </b></div> <div> <B>with the volume of the unborn, </b></div> <div> <B>let me be filled. </b></div> <div> <B>Maybe my love </b></div> <div> <B>will cradle the birth of another Christ. </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Translated by Layli Arbab Shirani (2/96) </I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Age Seven</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Ay, age seven </b></div> <div> <B>Ay, the magnanimous moment of departure </b></div> <div> <B>Whatever happened after you, </b></div> <div> <B>happened in a mesh of insanity and ignorance. </b></div> <div> <B>After you, </b></div> <div> <B>the window which was a lively and bright connection </b></div> <div> <B>between the bird and us </b></div> <div> <B>between the breeze and us </b></div> <div> <B>broke </b></div> <div> <B>broke </b></div> <div> <B>broke </b></div> <div> <B>after you, </b></div> <div> <B>that earthly doll which did not utter a thing, </b></div> <div> <B>nothing but water </b></div> <div> <B>water </b></div> <div> <B>water </b></div> <div> <B>drowned </b></div> <div> <B>in water. </b></div> <div> <B>After you, </b></div> <div> <B>we killed the cricket's voice </b></div> <div> <B>we became lured </b></div> <div> <B>by the bell ring rising off of the letters of the alphabet </b></div> <div> <B>and the whistling of the arms factory. </b></div> <div> <B>After you, where our playground was beneath the desk </b></div> <div> <B>we graduated from beneath the desks </b></div> <div> <B>to behind the desks </b></div> <div> <B>and from behind the desks </b></div> <div> <B>to top of the desks </b></div> <div> <B>and we played on top of the desks </b></div> <div> <B>and lost </b></div> <div> <B>we lost your color </b></div> <div> <B>Aah, age seven. </b></div> <div> <B>After you, </b></div> <div> <B>we betrayed each other </b></div> <div> <B>after you, </b></div> <div> <B>we cleansed your memories </b></div> <div> <B>by lead particles and splattered blood-drops </b></div> <div> <B>off of the plastered temples of alley walls. </b></div> <div> <B>after you </b></div> <div> <B>we went to the squares </b></div> <div> <B>and shouted: </b></div> <div> <B>"long live... </b></div> <div> <B>and down with...." </b></div> <div> <B>and in the clamor of the square </b></div> <div> <B>we applauded the little singing coins </b></div> <div> <B>which had insidiously come to visit our town. </b></div> <div> <B>After you, </b></div> <div> <B>us: each other's murderers, </b></div> <div> <B>judged love </b></div> <div> <B>and while our hearts were anxious in our pockets, </b></div> <div> <B>we judged love's share. </b></div> <div> <B>After you </b></div> <div> <B>we resorted to cemeteries and death was breathing under the grandmother's veil </b></div> <div> <B>and death </b></div> <div> <B>was that corpulent tree </b></div> <div> <B>which the living of this side of the "origin" </b></div> <div> <B>would tie their desire-thread to its weary branches </b></div> <div> <B>and the dead of the other side of the "end" </b></div> <div> <B>would paw at its phosphorous roots </b></div> <div> <B>and death </b></div> <div> <B>was sitting on that sacred mausoleum which had four blue tulips </b></div> <div> <B>abruptly lighting up at its four corners. </b></div> <div> <B>the sound of the wind is coming </b></div> <div> <B>the sound of the wind is coming </b></div> <div> <B>Aah, age seven. </b></div> <div> <B>I rose up and drank water </b></div> <div> <B>and suddenly recollected how the plantations of your youth </b></div> <div> <B>became agitated by the swarm of crickets. </b></div> <div> <B>how much must one pay? </b></div> <div> <B>how much for the growth of this cemented cubicle? </b></div> <div> <B>We lost everything we must have lost </b></div> <div> <B>we started treading without a lantern </b></div> <div> <B>and moon </b></div> <div> <B>moon </b></div> <div> <B>the kind Feminine </b></div> <div> <B>was always there </b></div> <div> <B>in the childhood memories of a clay and straw rooftop </b></div> <div> <B>and above the young plantations </b></div> <div> <B>dreading the swamp of crickets. </b></div> <div> <B>How much must one pay?......</b></div> <bR> <div> <I>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Mate </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Night comes </b></div> <div> <B>and after the night darkness </b></div> <div> <B>and after darkness </b></div> <div> <B>eyes </b></div> <div> <B>hands </b></div> <div> <B>and breathing, and breathing, and breathing...</b></div> <div> <B>and the sound of water </b></div> <div> <B>that drips drop drop drop from the faucet. </b></div> <div> <B>then two red dots </b></div> <div> <B>from two lighted cigarettes </b></div> <div> <B>tick tock of the clock </b></div> <div> <B>and two hearts </b></div> <div> <B>and two lonelinesses. </b></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Wanna know more about Forough ?</b></div> <div> <B>Then visit this great 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