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No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.


Kamand Kojouri

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a love story.
We call a poem about love
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KAMAND KOJOURI God begets love.
KAMAND KOJOURI These poems are cups
that I pour my love into.
Here,
Drink!
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as pregnant mothers grow with life.
Let my silence permea...
KAMAND KOJOURI What happens when I love,
you ask, does the world start
making sense?
No, my dear,...
KAMAND KOJOURI You’ll only know the answers once you love.
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it is time to dance.
If you want to get drunk
all you need is...
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my love,
that poetry was born
only after your birth.
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I will never judge you.
I am here
and I will stay here KAMAND KOJOURI I see your pain
as clearly as I feel my own.
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You must see darkness dance
and hear silence sing.
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KAMAND KOJOURI By loving you,
I learn everything
because your soul
contains the entire universe.
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KAMAND KOJOURI One sip of this wine
and you will go mad with drunkenness.
You will drop your masks
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so lost, vulnerable and insecure.
We are separated from love at birth, ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Polish the mirror of your heart
until it reflects every person's light.
KAMAND KOJOURI Close your eyes.
Meditate on your love.
This is God.
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and use my body as a bridge,
than stand proud ...
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and swallow gods,
Why does it worry with helpless yesterda...
KAMAND KOJOURI This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI Find me.
Seduce me.
I want to be in love with you.
KAMAND KOJOURI To see her is to be seduced by her.
KAMAND KOJOURI I know you not quite well
Yet I foolishly surrender my mind to you.
Slowly and carefully ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Seduce yourself first.
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all the thoughts you have
of yourself and others
are written on your face...
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why leave me in darkness?
Beguile me for your amusement,
steal...
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for as soon as I come
to pen a few words,
your p...
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and help me sho...
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instead of worrying about leaving a legacy,
to leave no trace ...
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and swallowed the stars.
I am dancing with abandon
and sing...
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then let me be a simple brooch
so I may rest a while against ...
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They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
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Life is living in this moment,
experiencing and experimenting
but ex...
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when you were smiling
and others were suffering,
the guilt you ...
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KAMAND KOJOURI At a night like this,
where it's just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete.
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You do not even have to be intelligent.
All you have to d...
KAMAND KOJOURI Believe me when I say:
'Out of all those around,
she’s the best locksmith in town.' KAMAND KOJOURI You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you ...
KAMAND KOJOURI All this waiting.
Waiting for the rain to
stop. Waiting in traffic.
Waiting for the...
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when inspiration runs dry,
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And ourselves
Until life humbles us
And makes scared child...
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you are fresh water
that falls from trees
when it has stopped raining. For me...
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No, I simply am.
I am. I am. I am.
I will still be if I didn...
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was an angel
who pluck...
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and then found myself through you. <...
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One more kiss.
One act of love, no matter how small.
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came and went.
Heart forgot love.
Joy, the majestic willow, <...
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You are such a potent wine, my friend.
To escape your wit...
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everything I will ever accomplish
cannot compare to my most
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For they are the players of harmony.
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weaving a poem for you
to wear. You look so beautiful
when you wea...
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Lungs and kidneys, too.
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nothing is new.
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and miracles, t...
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I feel comfort and
warmth as I slip into you.
No, that i...
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so you no longer cast a shadow
but instead let the light pass...
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this whole business
of tickling and kissing
God every night.
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KAMAND KOJOURI As soon as we are born
we hide God in ourselves.
We then spend our lives looking for Him<...
KAMAND KOJOURI Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.
KAMAND KOJOURI It offends me when you doubt my love.
These jealousies are unwarranted.
If only you lived ...
KAMAND KOJOURI You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.
KAMAND KOJOURI If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.
KAMAND KOJOURI O woman,
father says natural is beautiful
so why do you redden your cheeks
and blac...
KAMAND KOJOURI First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.
KAMAND KOJOURI Retrospect: the sweetener of life.
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What of it, if the paper will be burned?
I write our names ...
KAMAND KOJOURI I used to be lost in us. Blurred were the lines that separated us. But now, I see our togetherness i...
KAMAND KOJOURI Let us give thanks for our shadows
for they are there in the first place
because of the pr...
KAMAND KOJOURI I am so tired.
I have grown old from being serious.
I have grown ill from being serious....
KAMAND KOJOURI In the beginning was love, and love was with God, and love was God.
KAMAND KOJOURI Put down your stones.
Why are you breaking the window
when God has left the door wide op...
KAMAND KOJOURI Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.
KAMAND KOJOURI A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially ch...
KAMAND KOJOURI Think the tree that bears nutrition:
though the fruits are picked,
the plant maintains fr...
KAMAND KOJOURI I don’t know why everyone
is still trying to find out
whether heaven and hell exist. KAMAND KOJOURI You want to become a better person?
Just give thanks.
Give thanks for all of it.
KAMAND KOJOURI It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.
KAMAND KOJOURI A poetess is not as selfish
as you assume.
After months of agonising
over her marria...
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was only one hundred and sixty days
after I was conceived. ...
KAMAND KOJOURI A soulmate is a direct pathway to God.
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KAMAND KOJOURI If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?
KAMAND KOJOURI Do not avert your eyes.
It is important
that you see this.
It is important that you ...
KAMAND KOJOURI He tried to measure his day
by tallying the hours on his wrist.
I wiped it off and called...
KAMAND KOJOURI I am looking for the one I can’t fool.
KAMAND KOJOURI We cannot hunt for love.
We can only surrender
and become love’s prey.
KAMAND KOJOURI I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you l...
KAMAND KOJOURI What can I tell you
about the alchemy of twins?
Twins are
two bodies that dance KAMAND KOJOURI Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.
KAMAND KOJOURI I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
Bu...
KAMAND KOJOURI Forget your voice, sing!
Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget your...
KAMAND KOJOURI My mind is being consumed by you.
My body is longing for you.
Just one touch or a kiss, <...
KAMAND KOJOURI Is it odd, my love,
that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication t...
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have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
a...
KAMAND KOJOURI Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.
KAMAND KOJOURI Missing you,
I missed a part of me
I shared with you
that’s now gone.

M...
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Mary knows, I am not there.
Look for me in between pages
an...
KAMAND KOJOURI I am going to build a fortress of books.
Will you come inside and live with me?
KAMAND KOJOURI Listen.
Do you see
that you can’t hear snowfall?
Look.
Do you sense
that...
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falling from pregnant clouds.
With one glance, you washed ...
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and they see me
but the lovers —
we recognise one another:
ther...
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KAMAND KOJOURI The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary.
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KAMAND KOJOURI We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.
KAMAND KOJOURI Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.
KAMAND KOJOURI Die every night so in the morning you are reborn.
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KAMAND KOJOURI To live with you is to live.
To live without you is to die.
KAMAND KOJOURI Can we share my eyes
so you can see what I see?
Can we share my ears
so you can hea...
KAMAND KOJOURI I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must hav...
KAMAND KOJOURI I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own acc...
KAMAND KOJOURI Does God know
the number of kisses
before we fall in love?
Yesterday, I was nobody KAMAND KOJOURI The only path wide for us all is love.
KAMAND KOJOURI I've written you sixty-seven love poems.
Here’s another one for you.
But really, for me....
KAMAND KOJOURI What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI Take me when I'm wild.
Take me when I'm free.
Take me for me
and I will take you
KAMAND KOJOURI The greatest thing about me isn’t even a part of me. It’s you.
KAMAND KOJOURI Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI With you, I am. Without you, I am not.
KAMAND KOJOURI I love you so much
I want to share you
with yourself.
I know you do not insist
KAMAND KOJOURI Your omnipresence is marvellous!
I breathe and you enter me.
I exhale and enter into you.
KAMAND KOJOURI You just wait.
Soon,
lovers all over the world
will be reciting poems
dedicate...
KAMAND KOJOURI You are my favourite part of life.
KAMAND KOJOURI How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s be...
KAMAND KOJOURI I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself wi...
KAMAND KOJOURI Why this candle?
Why this cake?
The day of my birth
is not today.
I was born KAMAND KOJOURI We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in li...
KAMAND KOJOURI I’m a winner because I always bet on you.
KAMAND KOJOURI Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.
KAMAND KOJOURI How is it
that there was never you
until there was
and then all was you?
KAMAND KOJOURI I came to
pen another poem for you,
but even every unwritten poem
is you.
KAMAND KOJOURI If love weighs you down
and casts a shadow on your life
then it isn’t love.
Love KAMAND KOJOURI I will drive the world crazy
with love poems for you.
So they can know how magnificent you...
KAMAND KOJOURI I fell in love
and then
I became
love.
KAMAND KOJOURI Love, they said, burns you
and builds you.
But with you,
there’s no ash.
Just...
KAMAND KOJOURI All I need to do
is place my pen against paper
and your love
writes for me.
KAMAND KOJOURI Let us remember to
always rediscover one another
because we are
forever changing.
KAMAND KOJOURI Of course, I am religious.
I worship love.
KAMAND KOJOURI My love,
you are driving the entire world mad.
The nightingales are committing suicide <...
KAMAND KOJOURI I remember our childhood days
when life was easy
and math problems hard.
Mom would he...
KAMAND KOJOURI I don’t mind losing
in this game of love,
if it means You
will be the winner.
KAMAND KOJOURI Everywhere I go,
your beauty spills
into my day.
The trees were
never this v...
KAMAND KOJOURI I love you.
I love you a thousand times.
I love you an irrational number.
And I will...
KAMAND KOJOURI I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it...
KAMAND KOJOURI May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate pe...
KAMAND KOJOURI Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.
KAMAND KOJOURI Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.
KAMAND KOJOURI Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classica...
KAMAND KOJOURI A spark
of every fire we seek
is already within us.
KAMAND KOJOURI Usually, when I dream of flying
I am simply flapping my arms
and somehow I lift off and ...
KAMAND KOJOURI My love,
we can close our eyes
but we cannot stop the sunrise.
KAMAND KOJOURI It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it...
KAMAND KOJOURI Extremities are flawed.
Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.
So damn these eyes th...
KAMAND KOJOURI I have died at the ripe age of twenty.
Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint m...
KAMAND KOJOURI Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI