… Read moresi le vent me frappe
et la vie m’engueulesi la force du doute
me refuse mes ailessi les gens se moquent
et les
A cow to worship
… Read morea cow
to worship
a bolt
to fearseek one
to blame
see life
a gameI won’t
cower
nor will
complaintrusting
what’s ‘me’
My mother’s steel wrench
… Read moreit
loosened my troubles’
grip
on meit
unstuck my doubts’
hold
of meit
fixed the leak
of
my eyesand
fastened manhood
to
Rush to the end (شتاب کن سوی انتها)
I rarely write poems in Farsi. Somehow today, while at San Diego’s Timken Museum of Art and while taking in the beautiful European paintings on … Read more
No matter what shade your skin
… Read moreno matter where
sun rises or setsno matter what
shade your skinstrength of who
shines within yourises above fear
makes us the
I DECLARE, cut loose, heart’s anchor
… Read moreI DECLARE…
cut loose, I will
heart’s anchor,
safety of fearset exposed
vulnerable sails
in tempest
of unknownsand love, yes, hurt
and grow,
Drenched in “F**k it all”
… Read moreAh…
a never-ending siesta
shaming a
belligerent
sundrenched in
numbed beat
of
F**k it allcollapse of
fist-held fear
long, slow
infusion
smile
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