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Translator: Husain Selmi

 
 
 

Disparaging Violets

Girdling the fancy of a poet

And a goddess.

 

I have missed the bird of violets,

As if I were smelling his scent in every valley,

I thence can see myself rambling around,

Dogged by seduction

And violets alight

From the tune-playing moon  of  mine,

I am henceforth still living out,

For violets,

Are loud in my corpse’s praise.

From a bird’s shell,

Violets emerge,

Singed by their own rays,

In serenity they  sketch

The color of their sadness,

Vessels for departure

They paint the sun violets,

They curl her into a sail

For the violet butterflies.

 

Had not there been an ecstasy for violets

At my own genesis?

They coil around me,

And they cast the locks of my hair

A scarf

For a temple