POETRY

thanks yolanda for the links

thanks for including links to true or false and matching game poems.

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Thank you, Anahid! You are smart!

When I read his poem......I freaked out....

Is this some type of English test?

I just checked his book, there is a True or false test poem, you need click on the arrow on the right:

//www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0821419501/iraniancom-20A/#reader_0821419501

There is a matching game poem, you need click on the arrow on the right:

//www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0821419501/iraniancom-20A/#reader_0821419501

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Faramarz,

    LOL! You cracked me up! You are very creative!

Yolanda

Just insert the name of your favorite blogger in the blanks. How about Mash Ghasem?

Don’t doubt, no matter what terror may come,
That God will fill your emptiness with Dear Mash Ghasem.

For me, Janette. For Dante, Beatrice.
For Rumi, Shams-y-Tabriz. And for you? Mash Ghasem.

And so it goes! Happy rhyming!

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Hi Anahid,

     Most of the blanks are the last words, those are most important words in a poem.......you want to make sure you come up with the words with correct meaning and also rhyme.......it is hard for me!

I hope someone will attemp to fill in the blanks and post the completed poem here!

yolanda, I think in many lines, you are supposed to insert

name of the one that you love and in some lines, you insert love. Let me read it again. Let's say that one reads thi spoem, loves someone named parvaneg, then th epoem would be something like

Think of the greatest love you’ve ever had ( ).
Write his/her name in the space provided_____.

As long as you reiterate this name,
The semblance of this ghazal is complete:_____!

Don’t doubt, no matter what terror may come,
That God will fill your emptiness with Dear Parvaneh.

For me, Janette. For Dante, Beatrice.
For Rumi, Shams-y-Tabriz. And for you?Parvaneh.

Space makes the greatest rhyme. Sufis know this,
In spite of their lust for someone just like Parvaneh.

Now burn your useless books! You’ll learn much more
Inside schoolhouses of desire taught by Parvaneh.

Is it so silly, making readers work?
Doesn’t most poetry ask you to find love?

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here
To join (state your full name) and (state his/hers) Parvaneh...”

Computer code, universal language,
Breaks down when translating the essence of love.

Would you obsess over your petty shame?
Instead, substitute it with a kiss from Parvaneh.

All maps lead you to bliss. Your G.P.S.
Just estimates the time and distance to Parvaneh.

Before the loggers come for the last tree,
Write this last line with a sharp knife: I ♥ Parvaneh.

At this point, do you think you really chose love?
Before you were born, you were chosen by love.

I don't know, something like this. 

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Hi! Anahid,

    I have blank check of understanding of this poem!

I only know that last blank is "God"!

Blank check of admiration

Pay to the order of Roger's ghazal  ♥1______.

Yolanda, everyone has their own answers

that is the beauty of this poem

WOW.....

I love it ..... that is so cooool   

: ) 

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I hope he reveals the answers eventually! I guess the answers are in his book!

I ♥ (your poem)

Love... so unique and yet so universal.

Beautiful, beautiful work.