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Abol Froushan
Pocket from Heaven
Pocketful of heavenForced entreats measure to no avail
Frustration bids no change
Add a little salt
and pinch a punch of froth
Jack never drank of Jill’s mug
Sentiment of freedom forced the bird into a cage
Caravans carted it off to no-man’s land
He was thus exiled to a cage-bursting heart
Jack, caged in his mug?
Free them from themselves
O Brother Superior
Severity brings misfortune
Trouble, tried the mire
and bogged itself
Jill died in Jack’s mug
Oh this world in its treasury of nonsense
is the bulk of the How
And the now of a Why
Whom do I talk to?
Whom do I go to?
Not that I want to
Just that I do
The why of a How
The hurdle of the vertical dimension of Wall
This man shrinks
That, has a good go at himself
One disappears
The other splits
creating an object of self
Look! He is joining the universe
© Translation: 2010, Abol Froushan
Publisher: Poetry Mag, Paris, 2010
Publisher: Poetry Mag, Paris, 2010
POCKET FROM HEAVEN
© 2010, Abol Froushan
Publisher: Poetry Mag, Paris
Publisher: Poetry Mag, Paris
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POCKET FROM HEAVEN
Pocket from Heaven
Pocketful of heavenForced entreats measure to no avail
Frustration bids no change
Add a little salt
and pinch a punch of froth
Jack never drank of Jill’s mug
Sentiment of freedom forced the bird into a cage
Caravans carted it off to no-man’s land
He was thus exiled to a cage-bursting heart
Jack, caged in his mug?
Free them from themselves
O Brother Superior
Severity brings misfortune
Trouble, tried the mire
and bogged itself
Jill died in Jack’s mug
Oh this world in its treasury of nonsense
is the bulk of the How
And the now of a Why
Whom do I talk to?
Whom do I go to?
Not that I want to
Just that I do
The why of a How
The hurdle of the vertical dimension of Wall
This man shrinks
That, has a good go at himself
One disappears
The other splits
creating an object of self
Look! He is joining the universe
© 2010, Abol Froushan
Publisher: 2010, Poetry Mag, Paris
Publisher: 2010, Poetry Mag, Paris
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