Gul-e Dudi: Tough relations


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	Tough relations As songs were so often taken from my lips The murmur in my poetic spirit is broken Don’t seek happiness in my words As it died in the feverish sorrow of my happy nature If you think you can see stars in my eyes It is a fiction written from my boundless vision Don’t ask about the love that was the poem’s inspiration My loving words recall a death I will become a rose of hope, a river As drops of tears cannot solve my problems Though I am a girl from the city of the qasidah and the ghazal My clumsy poem was rotten and raw My stubborn sapling didn’t respond to the gardener’s touch Don’t expect too much brightness from my saplings I swear on my hands, feet and the language of realpolitik I swear on time’s tablet that this was my goal 2001
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