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Tehran Poems - Poems about Tehran

Bitterness now worshipped as religion
...In Ankara and Moscow, the ground is crimson red ~ a carpet spread on fields once green. Life’s fluid, like red gold, flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers – lifestreams of Rossiyane and T......

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Categories: tehran, grief, horror, sad, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Nowruz
...Nowruz¹ The mirror breathes beneath my palm— twelve days I've polished chrome. Sabzeh² sprouts in jam-jar earth, each blade a promise worth the waiting. Mother counts rice grains while sa......

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Categories: tehran, new years day,
Form: Masnavi



Amalek’s Demise
...Amalek is the archetypal enemy of the Jews and the symbol of evil in Jewish religion and folklore. Amalekites represent an "eternally irreconcilable enemy" that wants to murder Jews. Israel begins......

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Categories: tehran, jewish, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member AND THEN HE WAS GONE FBI KISH ISLAND
...AND THEN HE WAS GONE OFF THE COAST OF KISH ISLAND IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE A ROUND ABOUT OF DETAILS MOSTLY THE STARTLING FIVE PHOTOS OF BOB LEVINSON HOLD UP NOTES WHILE WEARING ATTIRE FROM GITMO REACHING......

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Categories: tehran, allah,
Form: Naat
World War, Overdue
...No prophesy, epiphany or convoluted scheme Forecast it’s not. For sure, no joke. And isn’t a pipe dream But something tells me, instinct chimes, we are so overdue For global war, as tensions build......

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Categories: tehran, war, world, world war
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Kazakhstan
...The snow fell lightly facing Tehran the stars all seemed to glow over the Capsien Sea from a heated Indian Ocean beholder of the Black Sea we hadn't battled cold like this an yet a deeply covered war......

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Categories: tehran, allah,
Form: Lanterne
Premium Member Playing With Fire
...Iran is playing with fire If Israel gets hot ~ Tehran will burn in her fryer......

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Categories: tehran, destiny, fire, international, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gathering Storms Against America Part Four
...The trilateral group of nations is meeting with the Iranian president in Iran. In the past Iran would call upon Russia for help but now Russia is being sanctified by the rest of the world for its unp......

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Categories: tehran, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Flesh and Time
...War elephants and jackasses with their endless stomping and braying from Saigon to Afghanistan Siamese scripts depicting.. blood for oil death for profit blood for lithium death for prophet ......

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Categories: tehran, abuse, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kind Once Again
...human reason accords to climate change realigns direction world health reunites bold vision sharing and caring become nor......

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Categories: tehran, society,
Form: Free verse
Love Or Loneliness
...(A Piece in Triplet Addressed to Dr Monir Táhá)* Yes, we’re mountains, all together yet alone, From foot to crown of rock and with hearts of stone. Unmoved by all, moving none, we’re on our own.......

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Categories: tehran, vanity,
Form: Tristich
In Memory of Sahar Khodayari
...IN MEMORY OF SAHAR KHODAYARI It is called Esteghlal, It was the club of her heart Sahar wanted to support it, In a stadium of Tehran. Only men could enter For her club to support. Sahar dar......

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Categories: tehran, football,
Form: Blank verse
Vote and Remove Our Ego
...I am a woman in a man's world drinking milk to prepare a mustache. The struggle to survive is disobedience. In my garden, behind the weeds, there is a String of Pearls and the skulls we found on......

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Categories: tehran, allegory, america, betrayal, eve,
Form: Free verse
For Honor, Part I
...I. Carter Gray was a retired marine, who’d done two tours in Afghanistan, discharged at thirty, he moved to Utah to raise cattle on a big spread of land. He’d worked dawn to dusk every day fo......

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Categories: tehran, evil, faith, family, father
Form: Narrative
The Bank Robber a True Story
...A Bank Robber in Tehran Had quite an interesting plan So he went to a Wizard for magic And paid him $500 a bit tragic To make him invisible to all Being a Bank Robber was his call But he was ......

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Categories: tehran, life, magic, world,
Form: Ballad

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