Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: Silk

Silk

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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Whenever I see

A beauty of delicate body;

In a soft, shining dress

Of silk,

I also see

All the moths

And butterflies of the world

Burning

In that cruel fire

So innocently hidden

In water.


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