Gul-e Dudi: Boundless Void


History Biography Poetry 1999 The Goodness of God The Spear of God If you descend Don’t Greet the Night Useless 2000 Escape My Garden Asking for Rain Coy Girl Tumult Prison 2001 Poisoned Needless Desire Defeat Bitter Tales Boundless Void Fly Freely Tough relations If only Raise your head! Mountain – river Human, Stone, Iron 2002 Fiery honour Voiceless Cry Watery Year Your step, my light! Night and the poem A Taste of the Ghazal With Paper and Pen When… With Spring Girls The least colourful Smoke-veined Flower Asleep in the dust 2003 Illusory relations How Curvature Read me My heart didn’t let me 2004 False smile Untidy Herati Women Poets	Boundless Void Back then, he was proud of himself His hands were raising the newly-grown saplings To become fruitful Back then, in his mind Were many important things Back then Trees learnt from him Back then his limbs were tame Perhaps they were afraid of his greatness But today His hands are dry and lifeless His eyes are burnt; there is a void Now the transparency of his mind in the heart’s lagoon Is dying He doesn’t trust his own feet As if they have erred and are under someone else’s command They have gone astray He sat in the corner of silence He has gone to the depths of Lethe And is free of time’s memory Alas! It is a boundless void. 2001
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