سکوت سنگ

The Silence of Stone

Cover of Fakhri Talebi's poetry collection "سکوت سنگ" (Silence of the Stone). A painted landscape shows tall trees in golden-green autumn light, a soft blue sky, and a small stone waterfall flowing into a stream in the foreground, evoking quiet and stillness in nature.
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Page from Fakhri Talebi's poetry book "سکوت سنگ" featuring the title poem "سکوت سنگ" (Silence of the Stone), with a watercolor illustration of a green leaf branch in the bottom corner. The poem invites the reader to experience the "silence of a stone" through the seasons and senses — a river's murmur, snow-capped peaks, ocean waves, ripening fruit, a bear-shaped cloud, spring rain, a warm sunrise, and the tears and laughter of children and elders — closing with a note that the poem was inspired by an actual stone the poet saw on a street, and written after that encounter.
Page from Fakhri Talebi's poetry book "سکوت سنگ" featuring the poem "قفل سخن" (The Lock of Speech), with a watercolor illustration of a green leaf branch in the top corner. The poem reflects on retreating into a deep, wordless silence, letting go of the need to describe or name things, and finding stillness even as love and connection remain present without speech.
Page from Fakhri Talebi's poetry book "سکوت سنگ" featuring the poem "قطار نور" (Train of Light), with a watercolor illustration of a green leaf branch in the bottom corner. The poem recalls a time when flowers, fields, and seasons lived in harmony, then turns to a memory of a beloved arriving at dawn to invite the poet aboard a "train of light," cherishing the rare joy of that companionship and hoping the invitation will one day come again.
Page from Fakhri Talebi's poetry book "سکوت سنگ" featuring the poem "خجل از جوهر و قلم" (Ashamed Before Ink and Pen), with a watercolor illustration of a green leaf branch in the top corner. The poem reflects on feeling weary and self-conscious about repeating the same rhymes and rhythms across many poems, longing instead for quiet and inner listening rather than more words, while trusting the journey of life and writing to reach its natural end.
Page from Fakhri Talebi's poetry book "سکوت سنگ" featuring the poem "چرخ و دنده" (Wheel and Gear), with a watercolor illustration of a green leaf branch in the bottom corner. The poem reflects on waking from centuries of sleep into a world of wisdom and hidden purpose, trusting the unseen design behind creation even while feeling swept along by vast, turning wheels of time.
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سکوت سنگ
شاید سکوت، همیشه نشانه‌ی خاموشی نباشد
گاهی آنچه در سکوت می‌گذرد، از هر سخنی ژرف‌تر است
در سکوت سنگ، فخری طالبی ما را به جهانی می‌برد که در آن سنگ، آب، برف، گل، باران، آفتاب و انسان، هر یک به زبان خاموش خود سخن می‌گویند
سنگی که در نگاه نخست بی‌جان به نظر می‌رسد، بهانه‌ای می‌شود برای پرسیدن از رازِ بودن؛ از اینکه چگونه می‌توان در جهان حاضر بود، دید، شنید، چشید و احساس کرد، بی‌آنکه همیشه نیازی به گفتن باشد
در این دفتر، زمان نیز همچون چرخی عظیم در حرکت است؛ قرن‌ها می‌گذرند، جهان می‌چرخد، زندگی می‌آید و می‌رود، و انسان در میان این چرخش بزرگ، گاه بیدار می‌شود و از خود می‌پرسد: چه چیزی در این همه رفت‌وآمد، همچنان باقی می‌ماند؟
شاعر در آغاز، ما را به تجربه کردن جهان دعوت می‌کند؛ به لمس آب و برف، شنیدن موج، بوییدن گل، گرمای خورشید و خنده‌ی کودکان
اما هرچه پیش‌تر می‌رویم، واژه‌ها آرام‌آرام عقب می‌نشینند
شعر از سخن خسته می‌شود، قلم در برابر آنچه در دل است شرمنده می‌ماند، و سرانجام لب‌ها در سکوت فرو می‌روند
اما سکوت، پایان نیست
آنچه از میان واژه‌ها عبور کرده و به سکوت رسیده، چیزی‌ست که هنوز در دل زنده است: عشق، اعتماد، و نوری که در درون انسان خاموش نمی‌شود
شاید راز سکوت سنگ همین باشد؛
اینکه گاهی باید از هیاهوی جهان و حتی از هیاهوی واژه‌ها گذشت، تا صدایی را بشنویم که از آغاز، در ژرفای جان با ما سخن می‌گفته است
و شاید سنگ نیز، اگر لحظه‌ای به آن گوش بسپاریم، خاموش نباشد—
شاید فقط به زبانی سخن می‌گوید که باید با دل شنید
The Silence of Stone
Perhaps silence is not always a sign of stillness.
Sometimes what unfolds within silence reaches deeper than any spoken word.
In Silence of Stone, Fakhri Talebi takes us into a world where stone, water, snow, flowers, rain, sunlight, and human beings each speak in their own quiet language. A stone that at first appears lifeless becomes an invitation to wonder about the mystery of being—to ask what it means to be fully present in the world, to see, hear, taste, and feel, without always needing to speak.
In this collection, time too moves like an immense wheel. Centuries pass, the world turns, life comes and goes, and somewhere within this great turning, the human being awakens and asks: What remains through all this coming and going?
The poet first invites us to experience the world—to touch the water and snow, hear the waves, breathe in the scent of flowers, feel the warmth of the sun, and hear the laughter of children. But as we journey onward, the words begin, little by little, to fall away. Poetry grows weary of speech, the pen becomes humbled before what lives in the heart, and at last the lips fall silent.
But silence is not the end.
What has passed through words and arrived at silence is something that remains alive within the heart: love, trust, and a light within us that cannot be extinguished.
Perhaps this is the secret of Silence of Stone: that sometimes we must move beyond the noise of the world, and even beyond the noise of words, in order to hear the voice that has been speaking to us from the beginning, deep within the soul.
And perhaps the stone, if we pause long enough to listen, is not silent at all—
perhaps it simply speaks in a language that can only be heard by the heart.
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عکس سربرگ: Egor Kunovsky / Unsplash

All poems and imagery © Fakhri Talebi. All rights reserved.
Header photo by Egor Kunovsky / Unsplash.

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