“I Saw You in a Dream” by Ghazal Tajbakhsh is an intimate work of contemporary Persian poetry exploring love, longing, memory and the fragile space between dreams and reality. Presented here in English as part of Persian Poetry After Dark, Tajbakhsh’s poem is reimagined through emotional indie pop, deep house, cinematic electronic textures and minimal grooves. This English musical adaptation brings the tenderness and dreamlike imagery of a contemporary Iranian poet into an atmospheric modern soundscape, introducing her poetry to a wider international audience.
- Genre: Emotional Indie Pop blended with Deep House & Cinematic Electronic Textures
- Music & Lyric Adaptation: Tony Zohari
- Language: English
- Poet: Ghazal Tajbakhsh
- Original Language: Persian
- Themes: Iranian Poetry | Persian Poetry After Dark | In English
- Cover Image: Wang Jared
Lyric: I Saw You in a Dream
I saw you in a dream
I had taken your glance
Your glance
And carried it
To another spring
How well you heard my words
How kindly your eyes looked at me
Your look
Your hat
A quiet moment in the light
Alas…
You came only for an hour
And left too early
And I picked up
The luster of moments
In the late night
I gave light
To these moments
I had carried your glance
To the depth of the root
To the gates of anemone
And heart
And I presented
The blue of moments
What a surprise…
What a surprise…
You came only for an hour
And left too early
But I kept the light
Of those moments
I carried your glance
Through another spring
Through anemone
Through the heart
What a surprise…
To the index of dreams…
About Ghazal Tajbakhsh
Ghazal Tajbakhsh is an Iranian poet and writer, born in Borujerd in 1942. Her literary life has extended across poetry, writing and cultural activities, with poetry remaining at the heart of her creative work. She has written in several poetic forms and has also been involved in nurturing Iran’s literary community through the Ghazal Literary Association, which she helped establish in Tehran in the early 1980s.
Her poetry often carries a strong emotional connection to love, nature, memory, hope and the passage of time. Her work brings together intimate personal feeling with vivid images of seasons, flowers, light and the human heart.
“I Saw You in a Dream” reflects this delicate side of her poetry — a fleeting encounter transformed into memory, light and dream. In Persian Poetry After Dark | In English, the poem is reimagined as an atmospheric song, allowing its imagery and emotional intimacy to reach a new audience through contemporary sound.
