Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: I Become

I Become

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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Rising from sleep,

I become the Sun;

I become anything

That pleases my eyes.

When sitting for a while

On the edge of a stream,

I become the flight of eagles,

The shade of willows.


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