So you knowfor Hooshang I will write to you,So you know,In this strange land,I am alive, and my blood which isFloating in your veins,Still sings the songWhich our father used to humIn our mother’s ear.We were kids then,And together we planted the sky,With all the wandering starsin our brick pond.And broke all the walls.The whole […]
This July Mahnaz Badihian(American/Iranian poet), along with other poets from the United States and Brazil are gathering in Sao Paulo, Brazil in a workshop by famed poet Edward Hirsch. With Edward Hirsch in Sao Paulo Brazil was last modified: April 13th, 2014 by Mahnaz Badihian
And we never asked whatThe Salamander said for survival——-Salamander I didn’t existWhen the mountains, plains and bookswere hereAnd that proud evergreen whichWill never bow for you Salamanders I didn’t existWhen the mountains, plains and booksWere hereAnd that proud evergreen whichWill never bow for youYou did not existWhen Zayandeh RudWas whispering the rhythms of sandIn the […]
Ghazal# 56 ببستي چشم يعني وقت خواب استنه خواب است آن،حريفان را جواب است closed your eyes, that is, time to sleepIt’s not sleep; it’s a response to an opponent You know that we do not last longBut your drunken eyes are rushing Be cruel! Your cruelty is pleasantDo wrong! Your mistake is right You […]
I will dream
To the end of this road , The road
That ends to nothingness
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Like Last YearBy Nosratollah Massoudi I come to visit youWithout flowers or chocolatesYou see that I have flipped through your hairSo many times I am darkYou stare at meAnd I become a sky thatfists of stars are thrown in its faceHowever the gardens in his sleevesAre ashamed of empty baskets I come to visit youWithout […]
Beyond Judgement DayBy Nosratollah MassoudiTranslated From Persian by Mahnaz Badihian When dawn comes andViolets PourI remember the days That the Sunny momentsWould Swirl around you Easily I forgetMore than twenty years agoThe dark rains knockedOn my hat and scarfThat stood behindThe windows of bombardment I forgotWhy I never got my hat and scarfAnd with your lipsWe […]
Read few poems from the book of”From Zayandeh Rud To The Mississippi” and book reviews by: Marvin Bell(American poet)- Ehsan YarShater-Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)- and by Jennifer Langer ————–Reviewer: Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) – See all my reviews The verse of poet, writer and dentist Mahnaz Badihian (Oba) reflects the mystic poets of her […]
( This poem was born after reading a captured suicide bomber’s interview )
You have changed the smell of our land
The color of our flowers
You changed my name
My new name is terrorist
The Love Of Year 2020 I feel I have a Poet lover Who knows all of my untold poems When I gave him my last poem He had read it years ago My lover is the most important poet I know He has hundreds of books Hundreds of amorous and philosophical thoughts With his poetic sense Through my dress he sees me […]
Translated from Persian by: Mahnaz Badihian Every morning I wake upWith death next to meOr in the middle of nightDeath is in a window ,a mirrorOr a doorway shoulder to Shoulder with me watches last night’s rain Death so kindly smiles at meBreakfast with DeathA few cups of tea and honey with itA piece of bread […]
Today I can write My happiest poem And I can enjoy birds happy chirpsSeed by seed Even in this world which is A Small sad planet Today every strand of my hairIs wrapped in a poem And the lightFlashing in my eyes Brightens my hands Even in the darkness ofThese rushfull days Today I can reciteMy happiest poem filled with trustWashed with peace […]
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