Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: The Song of a Bird

The Song of a Bird

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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A morning

In which no bird in flight

Would sing

with love of life,

Will be followed by a day

Empty of light,

Deprived of delight,

With no horizon open to the heart.


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