{"id":282,"date":"2021-08-17T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/?p=282"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:02:11","slug":"282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/2021\/08\/17\/282\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorrow beyond expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we watch the agony in Afghanistan, a poem by Nadia Anjuman <span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"fa\">\u0646\u0627\u062f\u06cc\u0627 \u0627\u0646\u062c\u0645\u0646<\/span>\u200e Though my posting this has no effect on this unfolding horror.<\/p>\n<h2>Appeal<\/h2>\n<p>O sky, pour down on this burnt earth\u2013<br \/>\nshe is yearning for a drop of life\u2019s rain<br \/>\nHer lips are dry, her heart on fire<br \/>\nIt is like looking at death<\/p>\n<p>O cloud, drift toward this scorched land<br \/>\nA thousand farmers watch for you<br \/>\nCome, for the emerald mountains of the city<br \/>\nhave worn mourner\u2019s clothes for ages<\/p>\n<p>O water, O nature\u2019s healer, please come<br \/>\nYour absence breaks the flowers\u2019 hearts<br \/>\nThe gardens have no strength left<br \/>\nSmiles have dried from lips<\/p>\n<p>O lord, don\u2019t let the farmer<br \/>\ndie thirsty in the furnace of time<br \/>\nOne drop is an eternal gift,<br \/>\nrenewing the farmer\u2019s weak hands<\/p>\n<p>O lord, show pity to the sullen nomads<br \/>\nO lord, show favor to the anguished heart of the sea<br \/>\nO lord, to the spring\u2019s burning lips<br \/>\nto the burnt deserts, pour relief of rain<\/p>\n<p>We are shamed and broken servants<br \/>\ndrowned in sin, in blinding darkness<br \/>\nO lord, don\u2019t let us weaken further<br \/>\nAbsolve us, though we earned this torment<\/p>\n<p>Pour water on us, for we are in flames<br \/>\nSome water to wet the spring\u2019s arid eye<br \/>\nThis burning earth is your disciple\u2019s bedroom<br \/>\ndon\u2019t let it reel into complete chaos<\/p>\n<p><em>Asad 1379 \/ Summer 2000<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">From this<a href=\"https:\/\/intranslation.brooklynrail.org\/persian-dari\/poetry-by-nadia-anjuman\/\"> site<\/a>. Copyright (c) The Iranian Burnt Books Foundation, 2007. English translation copyright (c)\u00a0Diana Arterian and Marina Omar, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we watch the agony in Afghanistan, a poem by Nadia Anjuman \u0646\u0627\u062f\u06cc\u0627 \u0627\u0646\u062c\u0645\u0646\u200e Though my posting this has no effect on this unfolding horror. Appeal O sky, pour down on this burnt earth\u2013 she is yearning for a drop of life\u2019s rain Her lips are dry, her heart on fire It is like looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cac","tag-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}