"How ever large earth's garden, mine's enough.One rose and the shade of a vine's enough.
I don't want more wealth, I don't need more dross.
The grape has its bloom and it shines enough.
Why ask for the moon? The moon's in your cup,
a beggar, a tramp, for whom wine's enough.
Look at the stream as it winds out of sight.
One glance, one glimpse of a chine's enough.
Like the sun in bazaars, streaming in shafts,
any slant on the grand design's enough.
When you're here, my love, what more could I want?
Just mentioning love in a line's enough.
Heaven can wait. To have found, heaven knows,
a bed and a roof's divine enough.
I've no grounds for complaint. As Hafez says,
isn't a ghazal that he signs enough?"
from The Meanest Flower © 2007
To learn more about Mimi Khalvati visit her site at http://www.mimikhalvati.co.uk/index.htm
1 comment:
Beautiful. I'd like to read more of Hafiz. I recently read this book "Septembers of Shiraz" by Dalia Sofer who mentioned Hafiz's poetry several times in the story. It's great stuff! Thanks for posting.
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