Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: The Spring of a Smile

The Spring of a Smile

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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Your smile

A red rose,

Musically bloomed

On a branch of light;

In me

The shining heart

A vase of crystal:

How mystically are adorned

The windows of my eyes

By a glimpse

Of this divine Spring.


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