Dear friends, My fathers new book, Hidden Treasures: Selected Verses from Kalim & Bidel is now available here: shopping.ketab/search.asp?cat=1&tit=hidden%20treasures Ketabe jadide pedaram: گنج های نهفته: گلچینی از کلیم و بیدل Its a collection of Persian-English translations of poems by the great 17th-century Persian poets Kalim and Bidel: Kalim The adornment of your heart’s mirror is light, not an image. For a dark house, one candle is better than a hundred pictures. Bidel Existence is nothing but feverish restlessness. In its prescription, The lines of cure are written with the waves of a mirage. In this garden whose roses are made of playing colors, Opening the eyelashes is free. Capture a glory! Any direction we traveled, we journeyed back to ourselves. O ocean of amazement, what boundlessness is this? The ups and downs of the world leveled when I closed my eyes. It was the audacity of vision that had made the world uneven.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:15:32 +0000
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