Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: Game of Love

Game of Love

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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The flower has prepared

Her fragrant, colourful table,

Standing with a bowed head

At the service of the honeybee.

It must be Love

that

In a self-amusing game

Has made her drunk

With goblets of sunshine

And dewdrops.


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