Tag Archives: Poetry

  Apologies for living on I am living on because providing apologies is easy once— i was making choices with insanely safe ideas of fleeing-madly-and-flying-away i was a helpless girl against the brutal world of bottom-patting-and-breast-pinching i was craving for ...

  A Sunset I love the evenings, passionless and fair, I love the evens, Whether old manor-fronts their ray with golden fulgence leavens, In numerous leafage bosomed close; Whether the mist in reefs of fire extend its reaches sheer, Or ...

  Views of Life When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom, And life can shew no joy for me; And I behold a yawning tomb, Where bowers and palaces should be; In vain you talk of morbid dreams; In vain ...

  Border I’m going to move ahead. Behind me my whole family is calling, My child is pulling my sari-end, My husband stands blocking the door, But I will go. There’s nothing ahead but a river. I will cross. I ...

Magnetism   By the impulse of my will, By the red flame in my blood, By me nerves’ electric thrill, By the passion of my mood, My concentrated desire, My undying, desperate love, I ignore Fate, I defy her, Iron-hearted ...

Daylight Saving My answers are inadequate To those demanding day and date And ever set a tiny shock Through strangers asking what’s o’clock; Whose days are spent in whittling rhyme- What’s time to her, or she to Time?   Dorothy ...

Long Island Sound   I see it as it looked one afternoon In August,-by a fresh soft breeze o’erblown. The swiftness of the tide, the light thereon, A far-off sail, white as a crescent moon. The shining waters with pale ...

D.G. Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti Buried all of his libretti, Thought the matter over – then Went and dug them up again.   Dorothy Parker  

‫ ‬‫ حکایت امیر و غلامش کی نماز باره بود وانس عظیم داشت در نماز و مناجات با حق . میرشد محتاج گرمابه سحر بانگ زد سنقر هلا بردار سر طاس و مندیل و گل از التون بگیر تابه گرمابه ...

‫ ‬‫ مخصوص بودن یعقوب علیه السلام به چشیدن جام حق از روی یوسف و کشیدن بوی حق از بوی یوسف و حرمان برادران و غیر هم ازین هر دو . آنچ یعقوب از رخ یوسف بدید خاص او بد ...

Heel & Toe To The End Gagarin says, in ecstasy, he could have gone on forever he floated at and sang and when he emerged from that one hundred eight minutes off the surface of the earth he was smiling. ...

‫ ‬‫ قصه عشق صوفی بر سفرهٔ تهی . صوفیی بر میخ روزی سفره دید چرخ می‌زد جامه‌ها را می‌درید بانگ می‌زد نک نوای بی‌نوا قحطها و دردها را نک دوا چونک دود و شور او بسیار شد هر که ...

  Eurolove I cannot and I will not No, I cannot love you less Like the flower to the butterfly The corsage to the dress She turns my love to dust my destination empty my beliefs scattered: Diaspora! Who set ...

‫ ‬‫ بیان آنک حق تعالی صورت ملوک را سبب مسخر کردن جباران کی مسخر حق نباشند ساخته است چنانک موسی علیه السلام باب صغیر ساخت بر ربض قدس جهت رکوع جباران بنی اسرائیل وقت در آمدن کی ادخلوا الباب ...

Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Ira Sung In The Sistine Chapel NAY, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring, Sad olive-groves, or silver-breasted dove, Teach me more clearly of Thy life and love Than terrors of red flame and ...

‫ ‬‫ حکمت آفریدن دوزخ آن جهان و زندان این جهان تا معبد متکبران باشد کی ائتیا طوعا او کرها . که لئیمان در جفا صافی شوند چون وفا بینند خود جافی شوند مسجد طاعاتشان پس دوزخست پای‌بند مرغ بیگانه ...

At the Fishhouses Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the gloaming almost invisible, a dark purple-brown, and his shuttle worn and polished. The air smells so ...

‫ رباعیات سنایی غزنوی‬ ‫* ‫ ‫ ‫ مر جاه ترا بلندی جوزا باد‬ ‫درگاه ترا سیاست دریا باد‬ ‫رأی تو ز روشنی فلک سیما باد‬ ‫خورشید سعادت تو بر بالا باد ‬ ‬ ‬ ‬ سنایی غزنوی    

  At The Back Of Progress The fellow who sits in the air-conditioned office is the one who in his youth raped a dozen or so young girls, and, at cocktail parties, is secretly stricken with lust, fastening his eyes ...

‫ ‫منفی‬‬‬‬ .‬ ‫‬‫ ‬‬‬ ‫در انتهای خلوت و تنهايی ثقيل زندگی‬ ‫کاشک دستی ميبود که طرح زدايش دردها را‬ ‫در سوسوی مرده يک چراغ نفتی‬ ‫زنده ميساخت‬ ‫ ‬ ‫در انتهای سرک های اين غمکده‬ ‫کاشک قامتی فرشته وار ...