{"id":12341,"date":"2016-09-20T23:33:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravenview.com\/?p=12341"},"modified":"2016-09-20T23:36:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:36:06","slug":"two-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/two-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Bears – A Poem By The Poet Hafiz"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here is a sweet little poem that we recently came across that is called “Two Bears”. It was supposedly written in the mid-1300s by the Persian poet Hafiz. According to Wikipedia Hafiz<\/a> was a Persian poet who “lauded the joys of love and wine but also targeted religious hypocrisy.” His collected works are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature and are to be found in the homes of most people in Iran and Afghanistan, who learn his poems by heart and still use them as proverbs and sayings.<\/p>\n
\nThe Two Bears<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once
\nAfter a hard day forage
\nTwo bears sat together in silence
\nOn a beautiful vista
\nWatching the sun go down
\nAnd feeling deeply grateful
\nFor life.<\/p>\n

Though, after a while
\nA thought-provoking conversation began
\nWhich turned to the topic of
\nFame.<\/p>\n

The one bear said,
\n“Did you hear about Rustam?
\nHe has become famous
\nAnd travels from city to city
\nIn a golden cage;<\/p>\n

He performs for hundreds of people
\nWho laugh and applaud
\nHis carnival
\nStunts.<\/p>\n

The other bear thought for
\nA few seconds<\/p>\n

Then started
\nWeeping.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

We like this poem because, in addition to it’s reflection on people’s infatuation with fame and the famous, it sadly reminds us of those terrible animal circus acts where animals are forced in to “performing” out of fear. We remember as children gleefully watching seals balance balls, elephants standing precariously on small risers, horses galloping around, usually all to the tune of a cracking whip. Then there were the bears, the dancing bears. The dancing bears who’s eyes reflected either embarrassment, knowing that you knew that they knew, or like Mac’s return to the ward<\/a>, reflecting nothing at all. Like our parents before us we took our children to this great tradition, this rite of passage once. For as an adult we saw what it really was. So sad.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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