Long Shiraz Poems

A MESSAGE TO EINSTEIN
Originally Composed in Persian Language by:
M. H. Shahryar (1904- 1988)
Translated into English by:
 Abdullah Bageri Hamidi

Einstein! An unspecified greeting! Well, pardon;
Running in the twilight of moonlight, fair;
With the curl of the wavering...

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Serge Lyrewing                          417
Sharon K Gulley     ...

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Note: This poem was translated from Persian to English by the author on Feb. 13, 2025.

By: Moji Agha (Mojtaba Aghamohammadi)
Dec. 22, 2021
Colorado, U.S.

Dance of Unity and Diversity

O' unity, how beautifully hidden you have become,
deep inside...

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They say Cabernet Sauvignon pairs nicely with steak
Pinotage, they reckon, for cheese
Tempranillo is the choice for Mexican grub
But, I'm somewhat easier to please

I've tried a fair few "Reds", on a weekend night
While chilling to some...

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Chianti, Riesling, Chardonnay;
What kinda wine we gonna have today?
Pass that bottle, if you please -
I think I'll have a little more Chablis!

Swirl that stuff 'round in the glass...
Show 'em all that you got class!
Has it...

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Down dusty dirt track
there was the winery
A rusty tin shed.
"Petulant Fandango"
It said on the sign
"Gidday anyone Home?"
"Hello, there, 
sorry I didn't hear you come."
With that we stepped inside.
Five folk were already there.
It looked like a...

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Today I present an old poem, written at least a decade before "Doubts". What this poem lacks in poetic format, and style, it reaps in sentiment.
Enjoy:

the Girl Who Ate the National Park

I was picking apples,...

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When you come to stay, you'll stay In a box,
much like any other. With its own rich vein
of concrete running between two green 
rivers of grass; supporting islands of tainted leaves 

too corrupt to remain...

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JACK DANIELS met JIM BEAM at the CANADIAN CLUB  to discuss their upcoming trip on the 

CUTTY SARK.  They were planning to go south for some SOUTHERN COMFORT, but when the 

ship had...

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I'm giving up the life of lush 
for that of a lowly pensioner.
The wife is too, 
though to give her her due, 
I said that I wouldn't mention her.
I'm cutting my cloth accordingly, 
no more...

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Hafez and I grew up together
in Shiraz, centuries apart with
similar poetic ether.
Wandering the world together
as if from the same mother.
We were never actually together
the word reincarnated is better.
He lives in me and we suffer together
humanity's...

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Wine of multi nuanced flavour,
Many coloured & aromas to savour;
Final judgment,always in the taste,
Swirled & swallowed without haste.

Bottles,magnums & jereboam,
Bouquets,hints oflemon & jam;
Chadonnay,Shiraz,Sauvignon
Tempranillo,Merlot jostle in a throng.

Wein,germanic,labelled methodical,
Whitesunsurpassed & gastronomical;
Top of the list,Bernkastel Moselle,
As aperitif...

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Autumn’s  story is full of rustic shades 
that echo  deep from  every vale and hill
of splendor and of  forest colonnades,
as one by one leaves float and spin and spill
in frosted shadows...

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multi nuanced
                  flavour
many coloured
       & aromas to savour
always in the taste

 &...

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Her hair, her beautiful blonde curls, 
Her hair drapes to her butterfly shoulders.
And I stand beside her, a quiver, 
As my love, my lion hearted love, smoulders.

Her lines, her wine glass curves, intoxicate,
Get me drunk...

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multi nuanced
                  flavour
many coloured
       & aromas to savour

always in the taste

 &...

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I wined and dined you but you wined at me,
you wound so much, it corked.

then when we sniffed the cork of love:
you popped my cork,

my; what a corker!

fruit you said: and rang the glass to...

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Lollipops sweet and tasty in dream shape pick,
Glassy red crystalline curve to do the trick,
Pick one in white stick or choose the blonde with wig.
Hard and quick juicy punch drives the land gig.	

Wild card targets...

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