POETRY
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
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POETRY
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
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POETRY
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
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POETRY
بیاد گذشته های نه چندان دور
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؟
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POETRY
Between the fifth and the sixth
I laugh my heart out,
surrounded by everyone
that I've ever loved.
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POETRY
شبی در کافه
خواستم خاطره بنویسم
قلم و کاغذی دادندم
اکنون
استوانة فلزی آن
جای انگشت اشارة این دست را گرفته است
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POETRY
by Roza Ferdowsmakan
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
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SAKINEH
Upon hearing Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani being sentenced to execution by stoning
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
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POETRY
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
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POETRY
by Shadi Angelina Bazeghi
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.
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POETRY
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
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POETRY
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
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