#persian poetry
زندگی گر ہزار بارہ بُوَد
بارِ دیگر تو، بارِ دیگر تو!
And if life is repeated a thousand times
Still you, you, and again, you.
— Forough Farrokhzad
“Let yourself become living poetry.” ~ Rumi, Persian poet
Russian hand painted lacquer box ~ signed Belova, from a small Kholui village
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Princess Humayun spies Humay at the gate
from a Three Poems of Khwaju Kirmani. Baghdad, 1396.
“Humāy u Humāyūn was completed in 1331 in response to a request to enchant Muslim audiences with a Magian theme. Prince Humay, while hunting, is led by a ruby-lipped onager to the Queen of the Fairies who shows him a portrait of Humayun, daughter of the Emperor of China. He falls deeply in love and sets off to find her. His quest led him through many adventures but eventually he won her and became ruler of the Chinese empire.”
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