zarah and persian boys
Apr. 7th, 2004 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321Can I just say how lovely it is to have ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zarah5 back in the fray?
Okay, then: it is fucking lovely to havezarah5 back in the fray!
:-)
P.S. Did several hours of DP research yesterday! Read my way through several tomes of mediaeval Persian poetry and a book analysing poetic metaphor in Persian poetry. Then picked up Italo Calvino's Why Read the Classics? -- have I ever mentioned that I adore and love Italo Calvino and that he'd be the one person I'd conjure back from the dead to sit at my dinner table and converse with?? -- and whaddayaknow: his third chapter is on Nizami's Seven Princesses -- which I've read!!! *falls down at own erudition*
And also, guess what: Persian poetry praises the beauty of youths non-stop. The black curls, the face like a moon, the lips like roses, the gazelle-eyes, and the down of a youthful beard -- it's boy-love paradise! Apparently, modern critics have bent over backwards in attempting to explain all this away as veiled references to women whose beauty was forbidden -- yeah, right.
Kemal Khojand
died 1401?
One final fling
a restatement of a point of view
Wind in your hair
my palms and fingers plough
through and through and through,
oh god, live for ever
young and beautiful.
my fingers plough...
You turn my winter into spring
and all I bring: tears for lips
that hold my tongue. Stay young
even if not for me, stay young.
Soon you must go
and leave me living
like the blind
feeling but the edge of things
until my final burst
of dying brings
the luxury of death,
before I grow unkind.
zarah5 back in the fray?Okay, then: it is fucking lovely to have
zarah5 back in the fray!:-)
P.S. Did several hours of DP research yesterday! Read my way through several tomes of mediaeval Persian poetry and a book analysing poetic metaphor in Persian poetry. Then picked up Italo Calvino's Why Read the Classics? -- have I ever mentioned that I adore and love Italo Calvino and that he'd be the one person I'd conjure back from the dead to sit at my dinner table and converse with?? -- and whaddayaknow: his third chapter is on Nizami's Seven Princesses -- which I've read!!! *falls down at own erudition*
And also, guess what: Persian poetry praises the beauty of youths non-stop. The black curls, the face like a moon, the lips like roses, the gazelle-eyes, and the down of a youthful beard -- it's boy-love paradise! Apparently, modern critics have bent over backwards in attempting to explain all this away as veiled references to women whose beauty was forbidden -- yeah, right.
Kemal Khojand
died 1401?
One final fling
a restatement of a point of view
Wind in your hair
my palms and fingers plough
through and through and through,
oh god, live for ever
young and beautiful.
my fingers plough...
You turn my winter into spring
and all I bring: tears for lips
that hold my tongue. Stay young
even if not for me, stay young.
Soon you must go
and leave me living
like the blind
feeling but the edge of things
until my final burst
of dying brings
the luxury of death,
before I grow unkind.