Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: Mystery of a Leaf

Mystery of a Leaf

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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It is an autumn leaf;

Pick it up from the ground

And blow the dust off its face:

This crystallized flame

Can tell something

Of the great mystery

Of all the galaxies.


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