NoWaterRiver
The Picture Book and Poetry Place
The Language of Shadow and Breeze
See the trees
Who answers a few drops of water
In the language of shadow and breeze
With the fragrance,
Colour and taste of fruits
The tree’s graciousness
Is greater than the world
Because it’s God whose
Answer is ten times worth
author : Yahya Alavi fard
Water and Waterfalls
And see the stream
How it becomes a river
And moves towards the faraway plains
How it becomes a waterfall
Evaporates
Becomes the spring cloud
See the stream
Indicating the sky
What’s it actually aiming at؟
POET: YAHYA ALAVI FARD
TRANSLATER : NARGESE AVAEI
The Magnificent Hills
And see the field
Although fallen away from the sky
Eventually becomes earth and dust
Becomes like the mountain
Respectable and high
Gradually becomes a hill
Small and beautiful and magnificent
Facing the sky
Just like the mountain
YAHYA ALAVI FARD- IRANIAN POET
The Upright Mountain
And see the mountain
Although made of earth; made of stone
Standing upright and firm
Without putting trust in the stones and the earth
Always indicating
The sky with his gaze
? What’s the upright mountain
? Actually observing
YAHYA ALAVI FARD- IRANIAN POET
Mother Earth
Come see how the earth
A perfect mother
Bestows her benevolence upon us
That we ride on her back
And fall asleep
In her loving arms
With her benevolence Mother Earth
Feeds and waters us
And whatever we ask for
She permits us
Mother Earth is so
Humble and sincere
Her kindness just like
That of God himself
YAHYA ALAVI FARD- IRANIAN POET
Stars and the Moon
Come and see
The stars and the moon
With whose presence in the night sky
Everybody has a peaceful night
And darkness leaves your heart and mine
Come and see
That the secrets of the sky
Lie in the hearts of the stars and the moon
Almost as if through them
God says ‘Goodnight!’ to us
YAHYA ALAVI FARD-IRANAIAN POET
this is innovation
A nightingale sang
A beautiful song
It sang of innovation
It sang of blossoming
It said our garden
Is soulless and tired
A soulless world is
Not what we deserve
Now that we’re together
And on the same creed
We must rise at once
And think of something
These words flew
In the garden’s sky
Innovation blossomed
Arguments heated up
New looks flashed
From every eye
Each went their way
Thinking to themselves
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****YAHYA ALAVI FARD****