Hi everybody I hope you will be fine!
I want to start to discuss that doesn’t have any relate to political subjects!
What do you hear about Iranian Poets?
Do you can name some of them?
Do you know who Hafiz, Molana (Romi),Ferdossi,Eshghi and etc are?
Do you know what the subject of their poets is?
For example one of the poems of Eshghi is about freedom of women!
He said why should women wear scarf and veil?
But all of the Iranians poets don’t write politic poems like Hafiz or Ferdossi or Molana
Hafiz used lovely words to wrote Gnostic poets and Ferdossi wrote epic poets and Molana wrote Gnostic poets (there are too many poets that I can’t name all of them!!)


Its divined those sorrowful days shall expire,
It has changed in the past and shall not remain thus dire
In the view of my beloved, I became as the dirt low
Respects of my rivals too, shall soon be a mere show

Hafiz

and welcome. I have had an interest in Iranian poetry for some time, but its hard to get good translations. Perhaps you could help me. The Ghazals of Hafiz? Molana, various Rumi of which I am fond. Here's one for your enjoyment, though I am sure you are familiar (apologies for the translation):

"That barbed wire on your path is the mind
Cut the wire and your path clearly find.
Heart trickster, soul veil and mind bind
To find the path you must put all three behind.
When you transcend heart and soul as well as mind
It is like giving sight to the blind.
Make your chest like a target well defined
That bow is strung, the arrow is well aligned
Only that chest in complaint can open tongue
On whose face hundred arrows have been flung
To think love is for the feeble is just wrong
Love is for the courageous and the strong.
Self-expression to the needy don’t belong
Benevolent Love is the path for old and young.
If like Enoch must follow the angelic song
Will find Love on that ladder in every wrung
Shams-e Tabriz is here, joyous and kind
Gospel of Love in his being you will find."

There is an 'off-topic' section where you might consider posting threads like this that are not political in nature.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

I enjoyed your translation and agree with the poet. Thanks

I did not make the translation; I have not that skill. But the language in the translation I received seems somewhat cumbersome. But I enjoyed it nonetheless. Like you, I agree with the poet.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."