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The Wind Carries: Forough Farrokhzad, Modern Iranian Poet
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I had not heard the name Forough Farrokhzad: I watched the movie "The Wind Will Carry Us" and read the English subtitles, a poem recited intermittently by the main character:

You,
O green like the soul of the leaves,
Leave your lips to the stroke of mine,
And savor them like swell flavor of an old wine.

If we forget
The wind will take us away,
The wind will take us away.


And later Googled the lines to find the poet:

She was born in Tehran in 1935, one of 7 children. She married at the age of 17, had one son. After divorcing and giving custody to the father, Forough pursued poetry-writing. She was a considerably independent woman. During her lifetime, she published 4 volumes of poetry, "The Captive", "The Wall", "The Rebellion", and "Another Birth". She also directed her first and only film "The House Is Black" an award-winning documentary about Iranians living with leprosy.

In 1967 at the age of 32, Forugh died in an auto accident. According to critics, she was shunned because of her lifestyle and her strong, feminine voice throughout her poems. Her last work, "Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season", was published posthumously and is regarded as one of the best poems of modern Persian.


___ I Will Greet the Sun Again ___

I am sending my greetings to the sun,
To the tender river that filled my veins,
To the raining clouds that carried my long dreams
And to the sore aging of poplar trees in the yard:
They escorted me in all visits of dried times.

I am sending my greetings to the crowd of crows:
They always brought me the fresh perfume of nights’ crops.
And to my mother who stayed in the mirror,
And looked like my aged face.

My greetings to the earth,
The earth that the thrill of repeating me,
was cramming beneath its aroused inside,
by green seeds.

I will come, I will come,
I will arrive.

With my curls: the winged scent of the soil
With my eyes: the bright insight of the night
And I will bring all flowers I picked
from the other side of the wall.

I will come, I will come,
I will arrive.

And then the gates will be invaded by love,
And there, I will greet everybody who loves.

And, I know:
There will be a girl, still standing in front of the gates,
those soaked gates in the deluge of love…

I will greet her again as well.


By: Forough Farrokhzad
Translation: Maryam Dilmaghani

September 24, 2008 | 6:07 PM Comments  0 comments

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