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O Wind


O Wind!
You have painted colors across the book of my heart,
And struck my soul with your claws upon the pool of my pen.
I was always bound to you, as everyone knows,
Yet in the iron solitude of night, you rang my deepest self.
Poet: Sasan Salimi
(S.S. Sokoot)

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Sasan Salimi (Pen name: S.S. Sokoot) Sasan Salimi, known by his literary pen name S.S. Sokoot, is a contemporary Persian-language poet who primarily pursues his literary work through virtual spaces and online poetry platforms. He was born on December 8, 1993, and lives in Jo-Kandan, Talesh, Gilan Province, Iran. He holds a degree in Educational Sciences. Salimi is an introspective and emotional poet who sees poetry as a space to express mental, emotional, and human experiences. His pen name, Sokoot (Silence), represents a central concept in his work, where silence is not the absence of sound but a source of meaning and feeling. He writes in various forms, including free verse, ghazal, quatrains, and short poetic texts. The main themes of his poetry revolve around love, solitude, longing, reflections on life, personal emotions, and the lived experiences of contemporary humans. His poetic language is simple, intimate, and image-driven, focusing more on conveying emotion and mood than formal complexity.

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Personal yet philosophical; wind as muse explores universal creative bondage.

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Four compressed lines dense with metaphorical ideas; high conceptual density.

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Bittersweet; reverence and pain coexist in intimate relationship with wind.

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Forceful verbs (painted, struck, rang); violent imagery; kinetic intensity throughout.

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Four lines; micro-poem form despite attribution line included.

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Rich metaphor throughout; wind as painter/beast; heart as book; soul as pool.

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Pure lyric address to wind; internal emotional voice; apostrophe to absence.

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