NIMA'S TIMELESS "POETRY OF TIME"

nima yushij
image by:faramarz soleimani

HOW FAR
HE HAS GONE
THAT NIMBLE BUTTERFLY CATCHER
-a japanese haiku

NIMA  was born in YUSH ,MAZANDARAN,
21ABAN 1276/12NOVEMBER1897,
according to his notes for
THE FIRST IRANIAN WRITERS CONGRESS
As the founder of Modern Persian Poetry,
or what he called
POETRY OF TIME,
he says:
از شعر م خلقی به هم انگیخته ام
خوب و بدشان به هم در آمیخته ام
خود گوشه گرفته ام تماشا را کاب
در خوابگه مورچگان ریخته ام
از رباعی های نیما
I have incited people by my poem
I have mingled them the bad and the best
I am now sitting in a corner watching  them
I have poured water in the ants nest
from : NIMA ROBAYAT