Mystical Epigrams
Nearly all divans of Persian poets contain, besides poems in the great classical forms, collections of shorter poems. Among the latter, some are irregular pieces at least from the point of view of standard prosody , of various lengths, but usually not longer than a few lines, which are called 'fragments' qit'as or muqatta'at . Although this term does not necessarily imply that these poems are unfinished or incomplete, they do in fact have a rather informal character. Such 'fragments' often...