Friday, August 4, 2006

When Autumn Came Comments

Rating: 3.1

This is the way that autumn came to the trees:
it stripped them down to the skin,
left their ebony bodies naked.
It shook out their hearts, the yellow leaves,
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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Dorothy Davies 10 May 2019

I don't always have words to write after reading a poem but this one has caught my imagination and my heart. A beautiful homage to Autumn, showing the real heart of what sometimes seems like a benign season but which has winter in its heart. It is al here, captured in this translation. Superb job, my friend. Superb job.

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Hashir Manzoor bhat 21 October 2018

List out two images from the poem

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Fabrizio Frosini 07 December 2015

'' Oh, God of May have mercy. Bless these withered bodies with the passion of your resurrection; make their dead veins flow with blood again. '' ITALIAN: '' Oh, Dio di maggio sii misericordioso. Benedici questi corpi avvizziti con la passione della tua risurrezione; fa' che in queste morte vene fluisca di nuovo il sangue. ''

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Faiz Ahmed Faiz

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