For the People of Iran

 

BABA TAHER

Baba Taher (1000-1075?), also known as Oryaan

(the Naked) is recognised as one of the first poets

of mystical love, later known as Sufism, in modern

Persian. Very little is known about his life other than

his being originally from the city of Hamadan, 

where he is also buried. He is best known for his 

lyrical doe-bayt (two verse) quatrains.

Translated by Ali Alizadeh and John Kinsella (taken from Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants: An Anthology of Persian Poetry from Rudaki to Langroodi, ed. Ali Alizadeh and John Kinsella)