Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: Snow

Snow

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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The snow came

And with the fire

In the purity of its whiteness

It obliterated

All the colours, all the weariness,

From the face of the earth.

Now, for two or three hours

The space will remain free

From the traces

Of this maddening clamour.


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