Fish I think my heart Has never been So warm and red: I feel In the worst minutes of this murderous night, Thousands of sun-springs Gush in my heart Out of certitude. I feel in every corner of this salt-marsh of despair Thousands of fresh forests Suddenly sprout Out of the ground. Oh lost certitude, you fleeting fish, Slipping through the mirror's pools, fold by fold! I am the lucent lagoon, lo! Through the magic of love Find a way towards me from the mirror's pools!
Ahmad Shamloo
(1925 – 2000) Penname A. Bamdad - Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamloo was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. His initial poetry was influenced by and in the tradition of Nima Youshij. Shamlou's poetry is complex, yet his imagery, which contributes significantly to the intensity of his poems, is simple. As the base, he uses the traditional imagery familiar to his Iranian audience through the works of Persian masters like Hafiz and Omar Khayyám. For infrastructure and impact, he uses a kind of everyday imagery in which personified oxymoronic elements are spiked with an unreal combination of the abstract and the concrete thus far unprecedented in Persian poetry, which distressed some of the admirers of more traditional poetry.