Best Iran Poems

In Iran they march
"Where" they ask "is my vote gone?"
Answered by truncheon

God, Allah, they call
In His name, holy, oppress
Gods weakest children

Other news shall show
Western television screens
But we wont forget

Hundreds dead now
We only know one name, one face
A prayer for them say...

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Iran

In the gardens of Hafiz
where verse eternally embraces the romantics heart
thus poetry succumbs to our desires
behind the tallest forbidden walls
a canopy of flowers each spring bloom
metaphor dancing near the city gates
under the evening stars
so pleasing was this experience
Iran
fearful of such happiness
where vineyards grow


Iran

In the gardens...

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 Women in Iran

Women in Iran

Let us think of a country older than old.
It was called Persia, Iran, we were told.
Once, it was so green with flowers and wine.
Now, it’s filled with the filth; killing is their sign.
They kill under the name of God and...

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Iran's offside goal
Costa's wicked ricochet-
hushed vuvuzelas






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "2018 World Cup Senryu" via wattpad.com...

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Frustfriaraded inside,
Seeing young students die,
For freedom,
Without freedom we feel like slaves,
Tossed here and there,
Forced to do what the goverment wants,
Why God we have to be in this pain?
For 30 years?
My heart is beating,
Faster and faster,
Asking the nations for help,
Screaming to the world we want,
Peace, freedom,...

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History reapets it self one more time,
Praying for those who protesters,
Wishing I was there,
Fighting for a country,
That I care,
I am happy to see brave Iranian people,
Fighting for there rights and there freedom,...

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Afghan Afghan wearing an Afghan

      leg lifted high

            a pissious 88 salute

          and drenching thirsty

     ...

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Iran, cradle mine, oh my crib sublime
How I have grown to love thee
You my refuge, so devotedly mine
Have now rejected me so profoundly 
Imprisoned am I and here alone
As I search your strength in vain
Mother mine with your heart of stone
You have turned our bond...

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>Afghanistan, England, Iran, France, Iraq, Belgium.

Sorry if your country.  I missed.
I guess I need a longer list.
Of where those IS terrorists, have now struck.
And someone has, had such bad luck.

With explosions sounding in the air.
And the smell of death, everywhere.
Loved ones lost and some...

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concerning Iran (a brief letter to the american voter)

dear miss or mister
still-believing-in-the-“dream”---
which face that you see being displayed on your
screens, 
do you think will get us into a war with Iran
first?

will it be mr. hope & change,
whose translucent slogans were 
transparent to many of us,...

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Iran you have a problem
one of your greatest resource's is oil
but it is a limited resource 
eventually, it will run out

Or if the world changes
to use electric cars
you would be left 
without profits

your economy 
could struggle
have you heard the saying
make hay well the suns shinning

Today...

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An Ode to a People Who Are Suffering.

First came the war
Iranians had to fight
Eight years of suffering
Warlords hardly are right.

The war was over
Many souls were lost
No more soldiers, no more bullets
But a terrible economic cost.

Because of sanctions after sanctions
Iran´s sun cannot shine.
Iranians are still suffering
But...

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The Field
by Rumi 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field. 
I'll meet you there. 
When the soul lazes in such lush grass 
the world is too full for discussion. 

Rumi was a Sufi mystic and a...

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Subservience, domination, 
a foot on the throat,
religion taught them that, did it?

oppression, decapitation,
suffering, death through starvation,
divine ordinance they have, do they?

symbols of their belief on their faces,
books from heaven they read,
fountain of their education, is it?

prescriptive attire, deny women education,
breed through them future,
yet slave them...

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A Forbidden Love*


The young Romina died
When she was 14 years old
She knew that love was not a sin
As she had always been told.

She believed that her suitor
Could help her to feel free
Though older than her
Her father would never agree.

Love should be the reason 
For Romina's...

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