You belong to me to me to me جان منی جان منی جان من You are my life my life my life essence آن منی آن منی آن من You belong to me to me to me alone شاه منی لایق سودای من You are my king, we deserve to mingle قند منی لایق…
Hafez’s falcons
From the Nightingale in the garden, ask the news. for I Hear his lament that forth from the cage comes Friends! The true Beloved desires the prey of Hafez’s heart: For the prey of a little fly, a great falcon comes. Translation: H. Wilberforce Clarke Original: خبر بلبل این باغ بپرسید که من…
The Alif
Listen: Hafez ghazal I speak frankly and that makes me happy: I am the slave of love, I am free of both worlds. I am a bird from heaven’s garden. How do I describe that separation, my fall into this snare of accidents? I was an angel and highest paradise was my place. Adam…
Lovers never die
Hafez: هرگز نمیرد آن که دلش زنده شد به عشق ثبت است بر جریده عالم دوام ما He whose heart has been revived by love will never die Our eternity has been written in the record of the world Me: Lips scalded by love’s tongues of…
Compasses
Abu Sa’īd Abu’l Khayr (10th-11th C) Translation: You and I, my love, are a pair of compasses though divided in twain, in body we are one We circle on a point, anon like compasses at the end we bring our heads together as one. Translation: Reza Ourdoubadian. The Poems of Abu Sa’id Abu’l…
Camarón and Persian Poetry- “Nothing is Eternal” and “The Cicada”
Sarmad The universe is a kaleidoscope: now hopelessness, now hope now spring, now fall. Forget its ups and downs: do not vex yourself: The remedy for pain is the pain. Translation by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady Translation: Punishment replaces punishment and one pain removes another a nail takes out…
Rumi and Hafez: Love’s Language
Rumi: Translation: When the tent-pavilion was pitched for Solomon, the birds came before him to pay their respects. They found him speaking their language and familiar with them; one by one, they sped with eager souls into his presence. All the birds, having ceased from twittering, became more articulate with Solomon than your own brother: Having…
Hafez-Your beauty, like my love
بگرفت کار حسنت چون عشق من کمالی Translation: Your beauty, like my love, grew into perfection Be happy, for these two will not decline Neither imagination nor intellect can picture a reality more beautiful than this image I would have fulfilled my life’s fortune if ever union with you was my…
Rumi-I am the hoopoe…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THbECqsbAk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcwBNFlW51g Translation: Show your face, for the orchard and rosegarden are my desire; open your lips, for abundant sugar is my desire. Sun of beauty, come forth one moment out of the cloud, for that glittering, glowing countenance is my desire. Out of your air I heard the…
Carminho and Rumi-Pain
A Voz Translation: Sometimes there is a voice that rises Higher than the world and higher than us And makes my eyes weep, when it sings In the tears that silence my voice It plunges my senses and time To the farthest point of who I am And embraces that place, so gray…