The Mirror of My Heart by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Mastureh Guri

1832–67

The poet lived her whole life in Gur, in northern Afghanistan, and died unmarried at the age of thirty-four.

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The lover’s heart is drunk, around your face it’s dancing

A candle around which two hundred moths are dancing

Wherever light that emanates from God is found

One in a mosque, another in a wine-shop, is dancing

And in an idol’s temple was your beauty painted?

I see the idol and the temple, both are dancing

The preacher told me yesterday to give up love

Today he broke his oath, and drunkenly he’s dancing

My heart sees both your curls’ snare, and your pretty mole—

It trembles at the snare, around the mole it’s dancing

And has the morning breeze passed through your lovely tresses?

In gardens nightingales, in ruins owls, are dancing

Behind the veil the banner of my love is streaming

Look, at its sound, crazed Mastureh is wildly dancing31

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