Once upon a time, a King had a private poet. Sometimes he would ask the poet to read some good poems for him to enjoy.
One day the king decided to write a poem himself. After he finished writing, he called for the poet and said, “Today I have tried hard to write a poem out of my own experience. I want you to listen to it carefully.”
He then began to read the poem with as much feeling as he could. At the end, he turned to the poet and said, “How was it?” The poet paused a moment and said, “Your Excellency, unfortunately I have to say that it was not so strong. It’s a very poor work.” The king became angry and asked the soldiers to send him to the stable for two nights because of his bad judgment!
A few months later, the king tried to test his ability in writing again. He then called for the poet and read him the poem. After he finished reading, he turned to the poet and said, “How was this one?” The poet stood up in silence and started walking away. The king looked at him in surprise and said, “Where are you going then?”
“To the stable!”, The poet answered as he continued walking.
By: Hassan H.
shaun anney
March 18, 2013 @ 8:45 pm
Salaam my teacher, chitori,khubhaam……i have just finished my second lesson in farsi and i am really enjoying it….i have always wanted to learn farsi from a long time but never had enough time to dedicate to it…even though when i was a young boy i grew up with a persian family and somehow i knew a lot more than i know now…please keep up the good work and we are very grateful for the knowledge you are passing on……mersi / khodafez
ariane alana
July 13, 2013 @ 7:47 am
Salaam. I can’t believe how much work and time and effort that you have given for providing free lesson to the world. I have just started learning Farsi and I love the short stories especially this one, my grandma (who is so amazed at this era technology learning through internet :D) and I were just laughing hard over this story. Thank you very much from Indonesia. Khooda fez.
chaitanya singh
October 15, 2014 @ 10:22 am
salaam teacher, i am very grateful to you for providing me the resources for learning faarsi.
thank you so much
nerd
August 6, 2015 @ 7:45 pm
really interesting.I’m Chinese,thank you so much for such great lessons and the funng story.
Jaimie
August 23, 2016 @ 12:12 pm
Thank you so much much for this site. I lived in Iran as a young girl. I have had a stroke and have forgotten so much of your language. This site is helping me so much.
choayb
October 8, 2016 @ 1:19 am
like it very much.