KayvanAli

Hooshang and all

توفان طعنه، خنده ی ما را ز لب نشست،

كوهیم و در میانه ی دریا نشسته ایم.

  چون سینه جای گوهر یكتای راستیست،

زین رو بموج حادثه تنها نشسته ایم.

is this not one of the high points of persian poetry. 

هرگز نمیرد آنکه دلش زنده شد به عشق

I'm not a poetic kind of person, yet find this verse very moving. I first read this verse twenty years ago,  hand written  on the edge of a political pamphlet belonging to a dear relative who loved and dedicated his life to the cause of People.

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

متبرک باد نام او

//www.forughfarrokhzad.org/
مهربان: برخی  از دوستان شاهد فروغ خوانی در آرامگاه حافظ  بوده اند.

Link to Forough's poetry that Ostaad Noury provided

 today, on another blog, Ostaad Saadat Noury provided this link

//www.shereno.com/2/

which is to "Forough Farrokhzad" 's poetry. I thought readers of this thread might be interested so I am inserting the link here.

Just think

All along our people have known the treachery and true nature of these "men of god", i.e., akhoonds, but we quickly handed our country and our identifty over to these creatures: no questions asked. yeah yeah, we were tricked...NOT!

What's that say about us?

By the way, I am not into poetry, but this one is particularly powerful.

Thanks for posting.

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IRAN FIRST

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The name of this poem is "Paasokh",

In my view it is one of her strongest. 

I see so much of Hafez's influence on her in this one besides the last verses.  Thanks for posting

Ps. she composes this poem as a response to a clergyman who badmouths her in a sermon.   Thans for posting.

Thanks Kayvan

Thanks. Dear Kayvan, talk about being hugely controversial. After so many decades, for some people, she is still controversial. Few weeks ago, I was talking to this Iranian lady and she was criticizing the fact that Forough was so outspoken in her poems. Her comment was right out of 1330s which is when Forough first started as a poet. More than 50 years have passed and some people still cannot accept that Forough wrote about her feelings. That shows what a pioneer she was.

Will find out

Hi Ahahid,

I agree, this must be her early work (and hugely controversial as you can see).

I'll find the date it was first published and let you know...  

KayvanAli, thanks for posting this beautiful poem

Dear Kayvan, this poem is so different than majority of Forough's poems that I have read.  This one is much more musical. I would guess that it must be an early poem. It seems that in 1340 decade, the modern poets would start writing poems with more musicality and as they wrote more and more, their style would become more modern and musicality (although never lost in work of great ones) would decrease.  Do you happen to know what year, Forough wrote this?