I Come

I Come
by bnamus
13-Jul-2011
 

From Dick-tates and Man-dates

I have come

For thirty plus years

They have beat their drum

 

I come weeping

From what They sowed

I now enter from the back

For I am also Jim Crowed

 

I come from behind curtains

Tents and walls of thread

Of littered streets named for the dead

Of self-appointed prophets

With coloured cloths covering their heads

 

I come

From the shrivelled vineyards of Shiraz

I come

From the deserted Towers of Silence of Yazd

I come

For every woman

Who did not come before me

I come

For every woman whoever bore me

I come

 

From every sturgeon

In every sea

For We and They

And You for Me

I come.

Balatarin
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vildemose

Hauntingly beautiful and

by vildemose on Thu Jul 14, 2011 08:46 AM PDT

Hauntingly beautiful and real.


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Jahanshah Javid

Chilling

by Jahanshah Javid on Thu Jul 14, 2011 08:44 AM PDT

Beautiful. Thank you!


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persian westender

Excellent poem!

by persian westender on Wed Jul 13, 2011 02:01 PM PDT

So expressive as it should be.

Thank you

 


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Anahid Hojjati

Thanks b-namus for a great poem

by Anahid Hojjati on Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Excellent poem. I have many favorite lines but one particluar section of your poem stands out:

I come weeping

From what They sowed

I now enter from the back

For I am also Jim Crowed

Thanks for sharing. A real good one.

 


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amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

And today, if you are seen without your chador, you will go

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on Wed Jul 13, 2011 05:10 AM PDT

You will go into the back of a police car

You wlll go to kahrizak

You will go evin

You will go screaming out of iran

You can keep going, but why not just admit you along with many of your sisters made a big mistake, in teaching Irans children the values of Islam, instead of being an example of freedom, beauty, goodness and truth,

if you knew what these qualities were, which I still doubt you know would it be possible for iranians to act on their hatred and misunderstandings to take the Shah and betray him with such self serving conviction.

half your children are thieves and the other half liars,

how far you have to still come, please keep coming,

yes come and keep coming as you teach your children to pursue all their rights without any responsibility. 

Come Like in 1979, clearly a national defeat and irresponsible action, irrespective of whether the revolution was hijacked or not. A monumental failure.

I go in to exile, because khanoom has come.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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