Necklace of Speech 17

The Necklace of Speech collection features poems by poets from the past and present, including Saadi, Farrokhi Sistani, Fereydoun Moshiri, Obayd Zakani, Taati Gilani, Saeb Tabrizi, Sharif Tabrizi, Simin Behbahani, Abdolrafi Haghighat, Iraj Mirza, Bahman Rafie, and Shafiee Kadkani: And how you passed so alien, neither a word nor a greeting / Neither a glance, nor a promise, nor hope, nor message / Neither in that expressive eye, a gleam of love / Nor on that silent bud, a sign of speech / You left in such a way that I did not recognize due to tenderness / Whether it is you or just a fantasy…