From Zayandeh Rud to the Mississippi by Mahnaz Badihian (OBA)Reviewed by Jennifer Langer This is a collection of poetry by Iranian born Mahnaz Badihian who has lived in the US for twenty-five years. Half the poems are translated from Persian and half written in English. The subtitle of the collection is ‘A Voice form […]
Esmail…. For Esmail Khoi (Iranian poet in exile) I am talking to you Esmail When was the last time you had a sipFrom the Caspian Sea For dreams to come through I am talking to you, Esmail.When was the last time you had a sipFrom the Caspian Sea,For dreams to come through? When was the last timeYour heavy […]
Headless Babiesby Mahnaz Badihian The room was filled withLost dreams. Music was from Captured humans in the battleFor humanity!They are still hopeful that angelsAre busy making headless babiesWith human hearts.With the manuscript for pre fabricatedHead wrapped in their umbilical cord. This room is where Adam and Eve basedTheir first fertile egg and a bird flowsTo eternity […]
Modern Woman I am a restless womanA woman with strong shoulders,That carries life.With iron feet, That walk through fire every second.I am a woman with a wounded voice,That bleeds inside, every day.I am a modern woman,A woman of an age of sex, money, perfumes.I keep the pain in me, I paint the face for you!I am […]
Amorous Oh…I loved you soLike acacias in a moonlit nightIn the hands of a caressing breeze Oh…I loved you soLike the pouring of the rainOn the weeping willowTimid, calm, amorous Oh…How desolate was your loveThe moonlight to darknessThe breeze to tornadoThe rain to thunderAnd the sweet taste of loveTo bitterness it turned Oh…See the silence […]
Saki Saki complain: For all this longing.For the wounds sittingIn your heart.For your lonely tears.For all misunderstandingsWhich cast thornsIn our hearts. Complain:For our homeWhich was wrapped inOur Mother’s hairBut now sits atop soil.For all these, whirlwindsYear by year,Make Complaints.That this world is full of cruelty,And fairness passes by usOnce in awhile, like a breeze. Saki complain:For […]
Manoochehr Atashi the famous Iranian poet has died today.The reason for his death was cardiac arrest after kidney surgery in Tehran,Iran.He was 74 years old. Poem is dream, butto see, no need to sleep.From room you go to balconey,With your slippers on, but no response.You arrive from the bridge in the backyard.passing by the water […]
I want to be in love,
even when there is none.
I want to be in love,
even when I am lost.
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Afghan poet dies after battering Nadia Anjoman had a cut to her head: A well-known Afghan poet and journalist has died from her injuries after being beaten, police say. Officers found the body of Nadia Anjuman, 25, at her home in the western city of Herat. A senior police officer said her husband had confessed to hitting […]
Hormoz Alipoor is a contemporary Iranian poet.He has published five collections of poetry. He was one of the avant-garde poets of Iran between 1971- 1981. This poem is from his collection “”Azure paper” selected and traslated by Pooya Azizi. With the moon talk but, did youSee behind your sad faceYour youth was dead.Did you see how […]
From Zayandeh Rud to the Mississippi A voice from a road between East and West Mahnaz Badihian (Oba)cover design by Shirin Sadeghi About the Book From Zayandeh Rud to the Mississippi is a voice from East and West – a voice so Romantic, Simple and Philosophical. Half of the poems were originally written in Persian and […]
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