Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Khajou Kermani: a Ghazal in translation








Mahmud Kianush translation 2014
Ali Mosleh photograph, "Khajoo Kermani Shrine-- Quran Gate" 2013

More about the poet:

Khwaju Kermani on wikipedia

arts-arena: Persian Classical Poetry:

 "Kamal-od-Din Khajoo Kermani"

A 13th Century AD poet and a contemporary of Hafez. He was influenced by other poets such as Sana'i, Attar, Mowlavi, and Saadi. In addition to a collection of ghazals (lyrical poems), he wrote five narrative poems (stories in verse), similar to Nezami's Khamsa, of which "Homay and Homayoon" is the most famous.

POEMS

1. "THE GEM AND THE MINE"

2. "HUNTING THE HUNTER"

 



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