Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: Sunflowers

Sunflowers

A rubái (quatrain)
in English translation

Mahmud Kianush

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Sunflowers: I have seen them everywhere;

They are beautiful, this no one can deny;

But, surely it was Van Gogh who painted the truth

Of the sunflower and hung it on the wall.


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