Best Farsi Poems

I'm proud to be a Persian, there's no doubt
Though some may look at me with veiled disdain
To honored heritage I give a shout
And here I...

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See
by Michael R. Burch

See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS
           AND
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO ALL MY FELLOW POETS
ALL OVER THE WORLD!!

FARSI -...

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Alova ... 
she’s the leaven princess 
of oven bosom tear oppression

Her violet Persian neutering rug
has the sterile stench of
cougar mating feral aggression

It’s her purple passion
to...

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My dad fell head over heels in love with my mom during their college years. Mom was a petite, a dark haired, dark skinned little...

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THE TRUMPIST VOTE: A satirical Persian poem and its English translation, by the poet himself.

POST / SHARE / FORWARD / PUBLISH (with attribution--please)

NOTE: In addition...

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Avanti si dice che e' cosi' bella
Farsi capire, altre espresioni temporali
Si gli alberi cha parlano 
Mi dicono del suo dolore 
UN' ombra si insinua che...

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I want to say thank you
In some of the languages of the world
To all the soup members
For you have helped my heart to twirl
You've add...

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Negligent

Wake that beauty, she who stole my sense and sleep,
Put that deer herself in nets she's wrought so deep;

If my sleeping luck were not unkind...

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Wild fighting 
   and thousands made homeless 
               ...

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I too once  assumed that by doing good
I could redeem my distorted bended soul
When I had actually done some of the worst

I thought I...

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King darius escaped to save his a-s
Smart move smart decision low pitch bass
There is no need to be nice
Think again think twice and think thrice
What...

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The Eager Traveler
by Ahmad Faraz
translation by Michael R. Burch

Even in the torture chamber, I was the lucky one;
When each lottery was over, unaccountably I had...

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Iron and steel
are the revered objects of their
quasi-holy zeal 
Earthly things fashioned from
corrupt flesh
Faithlessly forged by corrosive will — 
The profit mold of imperfection
was a...

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Burn
by Michael R. Burch

for Trump

Sunbathe,
ozone baby,
till your parched skin cracks
in the white-hot flash
of radiation.

Incantation
from your pale parched lips
shall not avail;
you made this hell.
Now burn.

Keywords/Tags: burn,...

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