Let's not muddy the brook
perhaps a pigeon is drinking water at a distance
or perhaps in a father thicket a goldfinch is
washing her feathers
or a pitcher is being filled in a village
Let's not muddy the brook
perhaps this brook runs to a poplar's foot
to wash away the grief of a lonely heart
A dervish may be dipping dry bread in the brook
A beautiful lady walked to the brink of the brook
Let's not muddy the brook
the lovely face has been doubled
!What refreshing water
what a spring river
how friendly seen the folk at the upper village
may their cows always render milk! ; may their
springs always gush
I have not seen their village
surely God's footprints lie at the foot of their huts
there moonlight enlightens the expanse of words
surely in the upper villages hedges are low
there the folk know what sort of flower is
anemone
surely there the blue is blue
a but is blossoming, the village inhabitants know
O what a fine village it must be
may its orchard - lanes be full of music
the folk upstream understand the water
they did not muddy the brook We also
must not muddy the brookm
SOHRAB SEPEHRI
Translated
by
Mehdi Afsha
Sohrab Sepehri on Wikipedia
Sohrab Sepehri: سهراب سپهری (October 7, 1928 – April 21, 1980) was a notable Persian poet and a painter.
He was born in [Kashan]. He is considered to be one of the five most famous Persian (Iranian) poets who have practiced "New Poetry" (a kind of poetry that often has neither meter nor rhyme). Other practitioners of this form were Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad.
Sohrab Sepehri was also one of Iran's foremost modernist painters.
Sepehri died in Pars hospital in Tehran of leukemia. His poetry is full of humanity and concern for human values. He loved nature and refers to it frequently.
Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism and Western traditions, he mingled the Western concepts with Eastern ones, thereby creating a kind of poetry unsurpassed in the history of Persian literature. To him, new forms were new means to express his thoughts and feelings.
His poetry has been translated into many languages including English, French, Spanish,German, Italian, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish and Russian
God bless his soul
