Two Poems

Originals and Translations, from the Persian, by Maziar Karim

4.

crush of
stories from the past thousand years

stirs us

and embraces today’s stories
trembling
coming from a thousand years ago
and we
everyday
every year
every century
every thousand years
have been editing
page by page
we will be destroyed
on each other
until life will write on the soil of the last page
the end

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7.

they fired
a poet
to the mirror of sky
thousands of poems rained down
thousands of people
became poets
in the reflection of his poetry
planet
broken pens everywhere
became a branch
with thousands of buds
we are candles
that in the plural of anger
will become a sun 

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Maziar Karim is a poet from Iran.