POETRY

مسجد محله
21-Sep-2010
بانگ گوی نماز
فراش خنده رو و خپلی بود
با ریش و مو و دست و پای حنا بسته
که شَست بزرگ پای راستش
همیشه از کفش پاره اش بیرون زده بود >>>

POETRY

The Neighborhood Mosque
21-Sep-2010 (one comment)
In our neighborhood
There was a tiny mosque
Which had a dome, but no minarets,
And as a child I thought
That Ali had been stabbed there >>>

HANNIBAL

درسوگ تایتانیک

رثای هانیبال الخاص

17-Sep-2010 (2 comments)
به صداقت خرس قطبی
در شکارماهی
و درخشش گل سرخ
در جزایر ایستر >>>

POETRY

Another  door
17-Sep-2010
Ah, you kinder than the wind
If only you knew
That if behind this door
You have opened on me
Sleep be asleep
I shall not come back awake >>>

POETRY

آتش در زمستان

بیاد گذشته های نه چندان دور

15-Sep-2010 (9 comments)
قرار آید بهار آید مرا تا یاد یار آید
مرا تا یاد یار اید بهار آید قرار آید
ز عمر خضر بیزارم اگر بی عشق یار آید
بدون عشق جانان عمر بی پایان چکار آید؟>>>

POETRY

فرزند وطن
13-Sep-2010
خطایم چه بود
که راندیم این چنین
مرا
دردانه ا ت را
ای مهربان سرزمین دور؟
>>>

POETRY

Face Book
10-Sep-2010
Between the fifth and the sixth
I laugh my heart out,
surrounded by everyone
that I've ever loved.
>>>

POETRY

هشدار
06-Sep-2010
شبی در کافه
خواستم خاطره بنویسم
قلم و کاغذی دادندم
اکنون
استوانة فلزی آن
جای انگشت اشارة این دست را گرفته است >>>

POETRY

Mirrors All Mine

From "Skies of the Dead"

04-Sep-2010 (2 comments)
Two thinly bodies
of glass frame the walls
in a queen-looking room
big as mother’s
where I breathe
and exhale
every foreign grain male.
Mirrors spy >>>

POETRY

نقره ای
01-Sep-2010 (one comment)
چشم، بی جستجو
پیام، تکراری
همه سر بسته
انگار پرواز
تلاش اجباری >>>

SAKINEH

The Family Koran

Upon hearing Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani being sentenced to execution by stoning

31-Aug-2010 (3 comments)
Every day, early in the morning
My father, who in his childhood
Had memorized all thirty parts of the Koran,
Would put the holy book on the reading cradle
And recite it with my mother
In their bedroom>>>

POETRY

در نشئه ی اینهمه غروب
29-Aug-2010 (one comment)
می دیدم
چشمه سار، اقاقیای سرمست
کوچه های همهمه، شفاف، قرمز
بر روی پرهای بی شِکِوه
شُکوه شاخک ها
و تصویر زنی
بر برکه – آغشته به حس
>>>

POETRY

Mass of Moments
26-Aug-2010 (3 comments)
I have come to measure the speed
of my lost lover's madness.
-Remember him so much
that I am forgotten
Remember him so much, Ophelia,
that the rest have become a myth. >>>

POETRY

Caravan
25-Aug-2010
Guilty in the pleasure of
not fanning the coals of war,
of not being there,
not holding my voice over
the governing of
my poor countrymen>>>

POETRY

Heroes
20-Aug-2010 (2 comments)
At the age of injustice,
The pivotal points in history when
We’re bound to alter our fate,
Sluggish we are, to make a move.
Yet, our devious minds tell us what to do,
Callously play ignorant, act like we’re dumb >>>