GREEN TEMPLE

Turning away
From the filth and gloom
                                     of the city,
My eyes fell on a tree,
And I was transfixed to the earth:

Its greenness gave me
A divine ecstasy,
And I,
        standing
On the threshold of the tree’s Temple,
Said a prayer of astonishment
In my revering silence.

 

Mahmud Kianush

 


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