Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: White Balloon

White Balloon

A rubái (quatrain)
in English translation

Mahmud Kianush

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The night's beauty has played magic:

Darkness and light have mixed together,

And a white balloon, radiant and strange,

Is hanging on the end of a child's stare.


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