#karim emami

[majestativa]

Who knows the rosebud’s pain as it opens to full bloom?

— Abbas Kiarostami, A Wolf Lying in Wait: Selected Poems, transl by Karim Emami and Michael Beard, (2005)

[majestativa]

Your presence is a moonlight mixture.

— Abbas Kiarostami, A Wolf Lying in Wait: Selected Poems, transl by Karim Emami and Michael Beard, (2005)

[majestativa]

The aroma of walnuts, the fragrance of jasmine, the smell of rain moistening the soil.

— Abbas Kiarostami, A Wolf Lying in Wait: Selected Poems, transl by Karim Emami and Michael Beard, (2005)

[majestativa]

In your absence I converse with you, when you are there I converse with myself.

— Abbas Kiarostami, A Wolf Lying in Wait: Selected Poems, transl by Karim Emami and Michael Beard, (2005)

[majestativa]

Indifferently the snake slithered past the skin it has shed.

— Abbas Kiarostami, A Wolf Lying in Wait: Selected Poems, transl by Karim Emami and Michael Beard, (2005)

[majestativa]

I dread even a gentle breeze when I have been through a severe storm.

— Abbas Kiarostami, A Wolf Lying in Wait: Selected Poems, transl by Karim Emami and Michael Beard, (2005)

[majestativa]

I love so much

that I am sick of it.

— Abbas Kiarostami, A Wolf Lying in Wait: Selected Poems, transl by Karim Emami and Michael Beard, (2005)

[majestativa]

How high how glorious soars the hawk in search of a lowly carcass.

— Abbas Kiarostami, A Wolf Lying in Wait: Selected Poems, transl by Karim Emami and Michael Beard, (2005)