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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

...The mirror breathes beneath my palm—
twelve days polishing chrome and calm.

Sabzeh¹ sprouts in jam-jar earth,
each blade a green and tender birth—

a promise held through patient hours,
while...
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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 MemberAND 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 MemberKazakhstan

...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 MemberPlaying 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 MemberThe 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 MemberFlesh 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 MemberKind 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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