and stain blue this page and this dynasty
Time for the flood that crushed our houses
to rise up and reach for the top
to rip out this fragile footing
and wash the wrongs from the land
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Iranian poet Nima Yushij, 1896-1960,
from “IT IS TIME”
Tr. from the Farsi by Kaveh Bassir
Tr. from the Farsi by Kaveh Bassir
from Poetic Voices of the Muslim World website/web exhibit
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