Long Farsi Poems

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 and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...

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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, earth, environment, fire, future, nature, natural, planet,  climate, pollution,...

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

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NOTE: In addition to this translated poem, to see some of Moji Agha's...

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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 won.

And even the mightiest rivers found accessible refuge in me;
Though...

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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 angel would could warble a song like none other, with...

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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 bare my love in words so plain

When Cyrus captured Babylon's...

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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 could  do better than Him
Chained myself in guilt and...

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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 Farsi emasculate with femme fatale hate
She’s a hardcase lover in...

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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 raw mass subjugation ordeal
Their Farsi prayer slag,
(reprobate words poured in...

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Brother Iran
by Michael R. Burch
 
Brother Iran, I feel your pain.
I feel it as when the Turk fled Spain.
As the Jew fled, too, that constricting span,
I feel your pain, Brother Iran.
 
Brother Iran, I know...

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WAKING

I woke from a dream
to a clear mellow voice floating
through the valley like the sacred
oscillation of a singing prayer bowl,
the reverberating ring of its braided
harmonics as sharp as the blue of a
January sky and round...

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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 bits of humor, rhythm, and definitely some rhyme
From writings on...

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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 like her,
Would I do so much her laxing ways to...

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Israel,since its creation in 1948,has close ties with Iran,which becomes the second Muslim country to recognise the Jewish state after Turkey.They become allies under the shah,Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.At the time,Iran is home to the biggest...

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Far off Constellations 
David J Walker

It’s not me 
It’s the judgment 
I never see 

But can still hear 
	The chitter chatters

Of muffled voices 
That scatters into 

A bust of Swahili 
Or Farsi

Or Gaelic 
for all...

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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 
Detiene ancora I cercano 
Luce e cume si trova vita...

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Wild fighting 
   and thousands made homeless 
                         ...

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