Two Poems
(Saeed Sultanpur, executed in Tehran, 1981)

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I have two poems
in me
And one of them
is silence

Whatever is
is words
Stars
Trees
Springs are words

Dawnfall in the beer-track
leaves
me cold

I wish to learn to cry.

2

Come
My love
To the forest

Be sure
We won't be
alone

There are
soldiers
in the forest

Come
With a lot of tears

With a lot of blood.

Translated from the Persian


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