Short Poems-4

Palm trees, the free umbrellas of nature
A wave of peace to remember
Layered with freedom
Miraculously, a sense of liberty binds the spirit of a palm tree and I together

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I remember the night
The starry night
When a sudden gust of forbidden love
Danced around you and I

I remember the night
The starry night
When the vast horizon fell from the sky
I was sitting in front of a small garden listening to the breeze
The rhythmic sound of wind played melodically

I remember the night
The starry night
When you faced the sunset with your glistening eyes looking at me
Nightingales were singing
As the dusk turned into light

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Tulips, the free-spirited beauties
Uneasy in the hands of stormy nights
Lay softly in the arms of a majestic land
In peace amongst the chaos
Peaceful with the joy that rises at sunset
Sways with the emotion of the breeze; divine

Shahla Latifi
August 2016