Poems in the Sixties

POEMS IN THE SIXTIESPaul SmithNEW HUMANITY BOOKS Book HeavenBooksellers & PublishersTHE SITUATIONWe sitfrozen in the room of our imaginationparalyzed by distances.We see each otherbut do not recognise our Selfin each other.We see only the shellthe pale surfaceof our imagined existence.Sometimesthe shell is crackedjust for a momentand we are neverthe same again.Paul Smith (b. 1945) is an Australian poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu’in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Bulleh Shah, Ibn al-Farid, Abu Nuwas, Shah Latif, Lalla Ded and others, and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children’s books and screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com