NIMAIHA: ON GREEN CANVAS

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Feet of the women rice farmer
burn in the mud

In  cafe
men  are sitting
around  the hearth

۲
بیگاری ی زنان شالیکار
بیکاری ی مردان در میدان 
باران چشمه ی بهار
.....

SARI SONG

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sari ,clock tower/pa sa'at , in meidan sa'at/clock square

I see you only in my dreams
I do not find my childhood's green garden
nor the house I was born in
nor the clock tower

the names of streets have changed
as has name of the school
burned years ago

now
only in my dreams
I see you

SEA SONG 31: SEA OF WAITING

Alborz
staring at the garden
till blooming with spring

SEA SONG TWENTY-TWO: MERMAIDS WEDDING

Mermaids going to a wedding
their scale-embroidered skirts
shake
in the windcloth
the laughter of mermaids
ha!ha!
at the water party

SEA SONG FIFTEEN: PAPER BOAT

Paper boat
the long wish of my father
who s gone

my lazy dream
my children's toy

we are riding the wind's horse
and giving away
our paper boat
to troubled water

WHEN AHMAD SHAMLU FLEW

When AHMAD SHAMLU-BAMDAD- flew
I thought:
...and BMDAD became BAMDAD
in paradise
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SEA SONG FIFTEEN

SEA SONG THIRTEEN

There is a wave
inside each shell
who dances
with rainbow and foam

When I look at him
I sing like the sea

NIMA says:

"The sea was golden
in the morning

The fish made chains
in the water

They erected a throne and
a decanther

My dream became king
in that place"*

*from :RUJA,
NIMA's Tbari Divan

SEA SONG TEN

The sea
drank
from the breast of the earth
to cry
all the sorrow
of the world

SEA SONG NINE:KHAZARI

*KHAZARI

The vast sea
gives a blue halo
to velvety banks
turns the mirror
in fog

To keep young
her hidden ancestors
to crystallize her roots
she comes to the foothills
on clouds
is tied to the sun with foam

In her splendid court
the fish cicling freely
give back the reflection of sky
to the depths
and the timbermen of the sea's wood
emerge from shadows of sunset
to be immersed in
a nocturnal silence

Gem  of tall roof of the north
stone of that ring
CASPIAN
sings in bluegreen solitude

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*KHAZAR: CASPIAN sea

SEA SONG SIX

*THE SEA SINGS NIMA'S ACCENT
.....

SEA SONG THREE

*WAVE
Green voice
crawls
over seaweed's foot

and wave
that turns
on top of wave
becomes the sea

ASALEM,KHORDAD 1366

SEA SONG TWO

*THE BOBING O9F RASHT










RASHT,BAHMAN 1365/FEBRUARY 1986

SEA SONG FIVE

The sea with Nima's accent

The shore
is the heavy floor of night

The sea
sings Nima's accent

The sun
rises
of water.

SEA SONG FOUR

ONLY ONE BIRD

Only one bird
sings
his song on
the mirror of the sea
until all the birds of the world
fly
its reflextion.

SARI.AUGUST 1986

SEA SONG ONE:SARI SPRING

The fountain spring
lost
in childhood
still runs
in the hidden places of
his body.
Tough with rocks
free with grass
he drank from the earth
and never dried
that sad dew.
Not prevented by rocks
or their abscences
he opened furrows
to the last field.
The fountain spring
lost
in childhood
did not go into the wave's talons
but grew
in the sea.

SARI,NEW YEAR 1975/1355)
(Tr. Faramarz Soleimani and Meara Day,1995)

SHOMAL SINGS SPRING

She falls the steps of spring
She bridges the seasons
Shomal sings spring

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