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Happy Sa’di Day!

Happy Sa’di Day! The commemoration day of the 13th century Persian poet who left a global legacy with his poetic talent and eloquence! Paying tribute

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Rumi Quotes
Poetry
The Iranian

The Best Rumi Quotes

Everybody loves Rumi, and lucky us, he’s one of our own! The 13th century Persian poet, who was an Islamic dervish, a Sufi mystic and

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Kaveh Akbar poetry
Poetry
Leonardo Faierman

Best Poets Society With Kaveh Akbar

Ever heard of DiveDapper? Kaveh Akbar’s uniquely creative online resource is a treasure trove of personal, wonderfully candid interviews he’s conducted with poets from a

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Arts and Literature
Farnood Jahangiri

My Land’s Way

My land is used to the dead And messages from them received, But it is not in the habit of seeing Live Messengers going out.

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Arts and Literature
Farnood Jahangiri

The Ballad Of An Ant

If you’ve looked at a line of ants marching across your kitchen counter and wondered if they were boys or girls, you were right if

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Arts and Literature
Omid K.

Iranian Ignorance

Humanity is what we make of it To be silent on fabricated truth you sit The garment that holds you together tears and  bleeds Baptised

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Arts and Literature
Arta Seyedzadeh

I Have a Dream…

I have a dream, a colorful dream! I have dream made of Awakening, Dream of a green world, The dream of a nonstop dance of

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Arts and Literature
Omid K.

Oblivion

Into the abyss of the night I go Without knowing the truth behind what I am told Nights embrace remains transparent and cold within its

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Arts and Literature
Omid K.

Spring

The flowers of may bloom Would they speak if they could? What if planted in our Corroded soil they stood, would they care?  Lost in

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Arts and Literature
Sandy Eastoak

Out Of Exile: A Review Of Nilofar Shidmehr

With the very first poem, “Alive,” Shidmehr captured my enchanted attention.The enchantment occurs in dark ambiguity between redemption and curse, annihilation and healing, courage and

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Arts and Literature
Abarmard

Memory Well

Moments drop and echo in the deep well of memories that carve images of sounds now faded away… nerves signal to flashes of eyesight brightening

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Arts and Literature
Jahanshah Rashidian

Echoes Of History

Echoes of history in my ears fill time-lapses The screaming chimes of ringing collapses, Forgotten crimes of dark apocalypses I can see all when time

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Arts and Literature
Jahanshah Rashidian

Our Worriers

The strained breast of the ugliest witch Vomits the dirtiest teeth with laughter And we, the naïve people With One thousand four hundred years Behind

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Arts and Literature
Jahanshah Rashidian

Echo

Your echo for me Is filled In a narrow alley Among lonely days And fitful dreams. My echo for you sounds Between your shadow And

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Arts and Literature
Mahmoud Delkhasteh

Fly, Flight, Plight, Despair,

Fly, flight, plight, despair, frozen tears, frozen anger, forgotten wish, forgotten dream, forgotten tears melted anger, dried tears, running tears, frozen dream. Human born out

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