Monday, September 29, 2014

The Poet

The poet
who hadn’t died a long time
interred the sunless Orient
swallowed his smoke-filled tears
and looked down—
at the last moment.

The poet
who had forgotten his fate
scribbled colorful dreams
and died, silently,
from poetry’s disease.



April 10, 2007
Tehran
Translated by Samvel Mkrtchyan

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