یادش بخیر

یادش بخیر وقتی که پرتقال‌ها هسته داشت
تف میکردیم هسته‌ها رو تو هوا
صاف میخوردن تو سرمون
میخندیدیم از ته قلب
بیخیال از فردا
کی خبر از دل خسته داشت

یادش بخیر وقتی که آب تو بطری پلاستیکی نبود
از توی  شلنگِ گوشه حیاط در میومد
گاهی سرد بود و بیشتر گرم
کوزهِ سفالیمون هم قدیمی بود
میگذاشتیمش سرِ سفرهِ شام
ولی تو گردنش یک دسته داشت

یادش بخیر وقتی که فصلِ گوجه و خیار فقط تابستون بود
کی میدونست مکزیک و شیلی کجاست
میوه و سبزی فقط از سبزه میدون میومد
کی خبر از غذای یخزدهِ تو بسته داشت
خورشتِ خوبِ مادرم تو آشپز‌خونه  
روی اجاق جوشش آهسته داشت

یادش بخیر وقتی که دوستی و محبت از ته دل بود
با هم از مدرسه دست بدست میومدیم خونه
برگهای خشک زیرِ درخت‌ها رو له میکردیم
آلو و گوجه میکندیم از درختِ باغِ سرِ کوچه
کجا نگرانِ پول بودیم
کی غم و غصهِ چک و سفته داشت

شعر از فرامرز

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May Its Memory Be Eternal


May its memory be eternal
When oranges had seeds
We spit them up straight in the air, and
they landed straight down on our heads
We laughed from the bottom of our hearts
No worries of tomorrows
Who’d know of tired hearts

May its memory be eternal
Water wasn’t yet in plastic bottles
flowed out of a hose in the corner of the yard
Sometimes it was cold, but more often it was hot
Our clay pitcher was so olden
had a handle on its neck
we set it on the dinner’s table-linen

May its memory be eternal
Tomato and cucumber season was solely in summers
Who’d know of Mexico and Chile
Fruits and veggies came only from produce markets
Who’d know of food, packaged and frozen
Slowly cooked on top of the oven
my mother’s tasty stew in the kitchen

May its memory be eternal
When friendship and kindness came from the bottom of the heart
Hand in hand, we came home from school, all and all
We crushed dry leaves, wherever under the trees they had fallen
In the alleys, we picked plums and sloes from trees in the garden
Who was ever worried about checks and promissory notes
When did we ever worry about money and golds

Poem translation by MPD © 2013

Original poem in Farsi by Faramarz