Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: Eyes Of Desire

Eyes Of Desire

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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With the eyes of desire

Look at the face of everything

So that everything

would appear to you

Utterly new

and delightful.

To be always confined

To the vision of a mate,

Deprives you of the chance to see

That everything can show you

The face of a beloved.


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