Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: Scent of Memory

Scent of Memory

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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Suddenly a sweet smell

Lightened my heart

With a pleasant air:

But I was not in a flower garden

In full bloom,

And it was not springtime:

Then I heard my soul whisper,

As if saying:

"Surely the one

who knows your sorrows

Was passing

Through the dark corridors

of your memory."


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