Ghazal

"However large earth’s garden, mine’s enough.
One rose and the shade of a vine’s enough.


I don’t want more wealth, I don’t need more dross.
The grape has its bloom and it shines enough.


Why ask for the moon? The moon’s in your cup, 
a beggar, a tramp, for whom wine’s enough.


Look at the stream as it winds out of sight.
One glance, one glimpse of a chine’s enough.


Like the sun in bazaars, streaming in shafts, 
any slant on the grand design’s enough.


When you’re here, my love, what more could I want?
Just mentioning love in a line’s enough.


Heaven can wait. To have found, heaven knows, 
a bed and a roof so divine’s enough.


I’ve no grounds for complaint. As Hafez says, 
isn’t a ghazal that he signs enough?"


- Mimi Kahlvati (via 3QD)