The tawny autumn
Is a flirting girl,
Which throws away shirt and skirt
And strips.
Is it of hot?
She opens her smooth breasts,
Dainty legs,
And her marble hips,
Barely leaving
A pale fig-leaf
As cover…
The breeze gusts,
Heaves, rumbles bashfully,
Sinning furtively…
The tawny autumn in her puberty
Is a flirting girl,
And I don’t know
Does she keep, or
Throw away
The fig-leaf?
The lusting shy
Does not look,
Does not see…
O, my temples
Pound with hot blasts,
And pounds my heart
Breathless, frantic and love-drowned
In the still expanding
Velvet flames of autumn…
And again
A bud burst open,
Warms up with rosy love fervor,
The redness fades with blushes…
Is it from the midday-honeyed sun?
A flight of bees chimes
In my blood,
Moans in my temples,
Coquettes,
Teases playfully…
The tawny autumn
Is a flirting girl,
It reddens and crimsons,
Sheds her petals and foliage,
Strips,
But… bashfully
Leaves a fig-leaf
On me…
Grish Davtian
Author bio at time of publication
Grish Davtian was born in Nor Jugha, Esfahan, Iran. His work includes poetry and literary criticism written in Armenian, and, more recently, poetry written in English. He has worked as the founding editor for the Aregak monthly journal, in 1964-5 in London, and editor of the literary pages of Alik Daily newspaper, in 1980-1985 in Tehran. As a member of the Armenian Writer's Society in Iran, he has served as the vice president and president of this organization for several years. He has three books of poems published in Armenian. Now living in Glendale, CA, USA, Davtian has been in charge of the literary pages of the Asparez Daily newspaper in 1997-2001. He has initiated the Literary Asparez monthly meetings, sponsored by the Glendale Public Library. He runs a one hour weekly literary program, called Literary Ether, on Horizon Armenian TV. The book of his English poems "The Ameriacan Pulse" has recently been published by Publish America LLLP, USA. He is also the editor of The Literary Groong (TLG) webpage on the Groong Armenian News Network website.