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Samiullah Rasouli

Ghazni, Afghanistan

*mythological fish that carries rubies and emeralds in its mouth

This author is a prizewinner.

Poems by Samiullah Rasouli:

Afghanistan | Samiullah Rasouli | 2016

Women

When I say women, I mean real women,
Those with eyebrows, real noses, and shoulders.
Who belong only to themselves from the beginning,

Afghanistan | Samiullah Rasouli | 2016

Nimruz

We sat on the flatbed of the truck,
In the desert of Nimruz, when we saw seven corpses.
Who had killed these poor people?
We got off to look at the dead.
The men were young, 20, 21 years old,
All dead, except for one.

He was still breathing.

Afghanistan | Samiullah Rasouli | 2016

Father

A hundred kisses I send to the dust
That your feet whirl up.
A hundred times melancholy you had to suffer to find bread.
If only I could become the calluses on your hand.

Afghanistan | Samiullah Rasouli | 2016

Love

If you love me for my beauty,
Then love me not.
Love instead the sun and its rays.

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