Best Iranian Poems

Made  of wood.    I know I should;   excise the inner fires turned solid.    my life's eyes tell me of your future colors; yet to me unconscious
.
 Instead no dread, of the  black out and the...

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Iranian Corrosion

A sense of old age, a sense of corrosion. 
All of this nasty metal, when you touch it, 
it makes a weird noise. 
You can feel it all over the city. 
Every metal object is corroded.
And in this city of metal 
even the people...

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Many years ago when I was a traveling salesman,
I met five post-graduate engineering students from Iran…
     educated,
     intelligent, and
     entrepreneurial.
They pooled their resources and leased a restaurant.

On another occasion, since
Columbia is a small...

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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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