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A Cup of Wine for a Friend
O Friends Of Mine;
Have some of this wine
That I am pouring
After best refine
This aged good wine
Comes from the vine
Grown in my heart:
A ruined gold mine
There is a mission
With this clear wine;
It is to combine
Hearts of yours and mine
Your thirst is a sign
Of your need to wine
To quench this thirst
You do need a Rhine
It is resting there,
Between your fingers,
Looking in your face,
My barrel of wine
Drink it to soul
Not your intestine
Once you are drunk
Together we shine
Sky in Water
It is time again you and I alone
To leave behind us concerns of unknown
To come together on green grass
On a riverbank to a calm zone
Dive in cherishing each other again
Like a queen bee and a lone drone
Let our grief be blown by wind
As our happy time we want to clone
Grab little rocks with smile on lips
To clear water lets throw stone
Correspond our thoughts by means of verses
Become jubilant to the core of bone
Walk along the day, admiring the sun
With the amazement it had never shone
After the sunset, gaze in the sky
As star crops everywhere grown
Then we talk of them in the softest tone
Like they were with us; part of our own
We point to moon for one another
As the ones in love before us have shown
Thus we walk along vigilant stars
To the far corners of the world known
Lets never forget after you and me
The bells for lovers toll the same tone
Sky in water will ripple with waves
Picture of the moon follows in atone
Heart is a river where stars blink
Only if flows in a path well known
My Sweet Darling, life without a love
Like murky brooks flows sad and lone
In heart of no mud stars have blinked
Moon has glittered sun has ever shone
Medicine of Love
Once devil is gone, angel will arrive1
In your heart and mine a love will thrive
Old acrimonies will be leaving town
Friendship and joy to houses drive
I shall be awake every night to dawn
Names of gone lovers once again revive
Bored of the lowlands to the bone marrow
Accessing summits you shall strive
There is no drug without side effect
If you are in doubt, you may contrive
Medicines of love although so bitter
Once in your body, your heart they revive
In the path of love smartness is shame
Names of the honest will stay alive
Truthful lovers shall soon triumph
In evolution best fit will survive
Chehree if desires sweetest honey
He must endure storms of the hive
Blizzard
It has been sometime wind has been howling
Blowing the snow
It is not clear how long it will last
How far it will go
It is clear though thick snow will be
End of this flow
Sitting everywhere covering also
Tracks we follow
Once they are covered with a white glow
We are not to know
Turn to which shelter, we forget also
What path to follow
How things to grow why and what and how,
Those grown to mow
Power to Shiver
If within yourself you do not shiver,
How are you going to give me fever?
When well-squeezed if we give drops,
How, at all, can we cry a river?
If we have no light, I wonder how
In the pitch of night we can glitter?
If you cant be moved by force of a love,
By lovers singing how you quiver?
Between sweethearts if stands no path,
How are they able cross the river?
We have to receive to the full content
Before naming selves a true giver
Every rock would soak in pure water
Before giving birth to a big river
Every moon attains beams of a big sun
Before in the dusk it could glitter
Chehree if claims to be in a love,
Like a moaning reed he must quiver
Saying Yes to a Call
O Cloud Of Verse, rain upon me tense
From every side with clearest sense
Discard restraints disregard limits
Bring to their knees every wall and fence
Images stored deep in memories
Spring as whole to my consciousness
Elusive surface get brushed away
I yearn to visit stable essence
If I keep digging inners of inners,
The depths I will reach you will never guess
I am not so sure what I profess
To this shortcoming I am to confess
Something that is there I will disclose
To an inner call I am saying "Yes,"
A Feat
A cup of that wine I dearly wished
Before the first cup you gave me finished
Alas, I was lost in turns and twists
Before the pitch night I distinguished
My eyes were fastened to the North Star
Because of bad luck that also vanished
Thus I endeavored to reach to your door
When my attachments thus relinquished
Often I desired, sometimes deeply wished
For such immense whale I had never fished
It was for its size and immensity
Torrents of mishaps on me were unleashed
At the same time, it gave me power
This was the reason it I so cherished
By the same power thwarting forces
I have defeated, I have firmly leashed
Since every step was headed to you
Pains of long journeys dearly relished
Because of challenge, I left heritage
Patterns for others I established
It was such a feat that many had wished
They had ventured it, they accomplished
This is the reason behind all my joy
And why one more cup I had ever wished
1 Hafez. Hafiz or Hafez of Shiraz is the most famous and the most loved poet among Persian speaking people. Hafez lived in the fourteenth century. He is best known for his book of sonnets (Ghazzalliat) containing around five hundred poems. He died around 1388 in his hometown of Shiraz in south-central Iran.
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