I climbed to the branches of a plum tree,
\nAnd I helped myself to the grapes up there.
\nThe owner of the orchard scolded me:
\n“What are you devouring my walnuts for?”<\/p>\n
He made me into a thief–that was wrong:
\nSo, in turn, I hurled slanders at him too–
\nAnd the peddler asked when he came along:
\n“You were to marry my daughter, weren’t you?”<\/p>\n
I dumped sun-baked mud into the cauldron
\nAnd boiled it together with the North Wind.
\n“What on earth could this thing be?” asked someone;
\nDipping the grapes I put them in his hand.<\/p>\n
To the weaver at the loom, I gave thread
\nWhich he chose not to wind into a ball;
\nTo get the fabric orders out, he sped–
\nThose who want can now come and get it all.<\/p>\n
I snatched one of the wings of a sparrow
\nAnd loaded it on to forty ox-carts.
\nEven forty spans failed to pull it, though;
\nSo the sparrow’s wing got stuck in these parts.<\/p>\n
A fly caught an eagle, lifted it high–
\nAnd smack onto the ground, a thumping thrust.
\nWhat I tell you is the truth, not a lie:
\nWith my own eyes I saw the rising dust.<\/p>\n
I had a wrestling match with a cripple–
\nWith no hands, he grappled me by my legs;
\nI struggled, but couldn’t make a ripple.
\nHe burnt me inside out, down to my dregs.<\/p>\n
From the mythic mountain that girds the world
\nDown came on the road a rock aimed at me;
\nI was nearly struck by the stone they hurled;
\nIt might have turned my face topsy-turvy.<\/p>\n
The fish, it turns out, climbed the poplar tree
\nTo gobble the pickles of tar up there.
\nThe stork gave birth to a baby donkey;
\nYou better get the meaning, don’t just stare.<\/p>\n
To the blind, I gave signals with my hand;
\nWhatever I whispered, the deaf man heard.
\nThe dumb broke into speech, called me out and
\nRepeated with me every single word.<\/p>\n
I held an ox tight, with all my power,
\nI strangled it, threw it on the ground, loose;
\nThen the owner of the ox rushed over,
\nSaying, “That neck you just broke, that’s my goose!”<\/p>\n
I got stuck again, couldn’t get away;
\nJust didn’t know what to do–how could I?
\nThen another peddler popped up to say,
\n“Why is it that you have plucked out my eye?”<\/p>\n
I came upon a turtle on the way–
\nI had an eyeless serpent for comrade.
\n“I’ll ask you where you’re heading, if I may?”
\n“We hope to reach Caesarea,” they said.<\/p>\n
These are the words that Yunus had to say,
\nHis resembles no other utterance;
\nTo keep it out of the hypocrites’ way
\nHe has put the veil on the face of sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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