Ziba Shirazi is an Iranian-American writer, poet, singer and storyteller. She will be performing live at Oak Theater in Berkeley, California on Sunday, September 11, 2011. For more information about this event, please see: Ziba Shirazi: A Night of Story & Song.
The following is my English translation of one of her poems called "Woman" (زن).
زن
من منم، من یک زنم، آزادگی پیراهنم
عشوه از پا تا سرم لیکن ز سنگم، آهنم
من منم، من مادرم، دوستم، رفیقم، همسرم
شیرهء جانت ز من، چادر مینداز بر سرم
تاب گیسویم سرابی بیش نیست
نقشِ بیهوده بر آبی بیش نیست
وین لبِ لعل و حدیث چشمِ مست
بر لبِ مستِ خرابی بیش نیست
وصف ابروی کمان و تیرِ مژگانِ سیاه
حربه و ابزارِ جنگ شعر نابی بیش نیست
Woman
I am me, a woman; freedom is what I wear
من منم، من یک زنم، عطرِ هوس دارد تنم
نطفهء هستی درم از جان و از دل میتنم
روبهک! من شیرزنم، خاموش تو، من روشنم
با سلاحِ دین دگر آتش مزن بر خرمنم
تا بدانی چیست جان و جوهرم
دستی انداز و تو دریاب گوهرم
نیمهء تنها! مرا ز خود بدان
من برابر ا تو، جنسِ دیرم
بال و پر بگشا کاندر راهء عشق
بالِ پرواز گر توئی من شهپرم
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by yolanda on Tue Sep 06, 2011 07:10 PM PDTHi! MPD,
Thank you for your blog. The lady has a facebook website and your blog is posted there...34 people have posted your blog on facebook, Yeah! She has close to 4000 friends there......her videos on you-tube have a lot of hits. Her style reminds me more of country music than jazz....as you know, country singers like to tell stories thru the singing, they like to talk about love, infidelity, and booze thru their songs.......of course, Ziba has different stories to tell. Wow! She is named after the city of poets and literature; she is a poetess herself!
The second half of the poem sounds feminist to certain extent......I hope her concert has a great turnout!
Thank you for your great translation! I am so glad that Boosboos is gone and you are back! Thank you for reclaiming the territory for IC!
Thank you for finding this great video
by Multiple Personality Disorder on Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:47 AM PDTYolanda,
I was trying to find a video clip that contained the entire poem, some of them only had the first half of the poem. The video clip you found is great. Thank you.
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by yolanda on Tue Sep 06, 2011 06:44 AM PDTHi MPD,
Thank you for translating this great song. Thank you for bringing back sanity to IC! Here is the studio version of the song, I will be back later, I just started working, OMG! It is so stressful!