Mehraneh Hosseini

They say you will go to heaven
If you have a bun in the oven
After passing one and seven
You would pass one month again
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When there is no space to bear out
A politician with enormous clout!
The one who calls you a litter lout
Try not to show how
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Since the time I had begun,
My life was always dun.
It was somewhat spartan.
No one said, you are a little son
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One day
I will come, and bring a message.
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I speak out of the deep of night
out of the deep of darkness
and out of the deep of night I speak
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My whole being is a dark chant
which will carry you
perpetuating you
to the dawn of eternal growths and blossoming
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I went to the pond
Hoping to see the reflection of my loneliness in the water

There was no water in the pond.
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“Where is the friend’s house? ”
Horseman asked by twilight and,
The sky paused.
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That crow which flew over our heads
and descended into the disturbed thought
of a vagabond cloud
and the sound of which traversed
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I cried all day in the mirror.
Spring
Had entrusted my window to the trees' green delusion.
My body would not fit n the cocoon of my loneliness.
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You are kinder than a leaf under the kisses of rain
The wakefulness of stars in the eyes of streams
The mirror of your eyes the unity of morning and shore
Your rare smile a star-pouring morning
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I've had a dream that someone is coming.
I've dreamt of a red star,
and my eyes lids keep twitching
and my shoes keep snapping to attention
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In my small night, ah
the wind has a date with the leaves of the trees
in my small night there is agony of destruction
listen
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We shouldn’t muddy the water
A pigeon may drink it down the road
Or in a far away grove a starling may bathe
Or in the village, a jug may be filled
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Night of Pleasant Loneliness

Listen, the world's farthest bird is singing.
The Night is fluid, whole, and open.
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