On March 5, 2025, 10:18 p.m. admin:
Persian Literature: Where every poet is either 1) crying over a rose, 2) philosophizing with a wineglass, or 3) low-key roasting the entire universe. 🌹🍷🌌
Ferdowsi writing the Shahnameh for 30 years: “Yes, yes, I’ll finish the epic poem… after I write 10,000 verses about a hero arguing with a magical bird.”
Meanwhile, Persian moms in 1010 CE: “Beta, when will you get a real job? ‘Epic poet’ isn’t paying the bills!”
Hafez out here writing ghazals so cryptic, even he probably woke up like, “Wait, did I mean ‘beloved’ or was I just hungry?”
Modern translation: His entire Divan is just a medieval Persian version of “It’s not a phase, Mom, it’s my ✨aesthetic✨.”
And Rumi? Bro invented “spiritual thirst” before La Croix was a thing. “The universe is within you!” — aka, “Why yes, I am avoiding my taxes by staring at a candle.”
Omar Khayyam: “Life’s short, let’s drink wine and question existence.”
Also Omar Khayyam: “But first, let me rhyme ‘destiny’ with ‘wine’ 400 times.” 🍷📚