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Tribute to spring/mahnaz Badihian

mahmag  •  24 March, 2010


I feel so ripe
As if, I was just born from that tall tree in the garden.
I even feel leafy
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poem by Bhuwan Thapaliya

mahmag2  •  15 March, 2010

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Suppression, I accept not
by Bhuwan Thapaliya

I came
into this world
not like the river
but like a drop of water
and will soon evaporate
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Recycled Woman/ happy march 8 ...

mahmag  •  07 March, 2010

woman by: Mahnaz badihian


The recycled woman
Has a heart filled with fumigated love
All her dreams will be reborn again
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Review of”Dream” by Kwame Dawes from collection Wisteria by: Mahnaz Badihian

mahmag  •  26 February, 2010

kwame Dawes

This poem has political and racial messages. Although the poem “Dream” is a delicate poem it contains the harsh reality of racial issues that existed and to some degree still exists in America.
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June Jordan/In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.

AAlfaro  •  19 January, 2010

June Jordan

They sleep who know a regulated place
or pulse or tide or changing sky
according to some universal
stage direction obvious
like shorewashed shells
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Hernan Miranda Casanova

AAlfaro  •  04 January, 2010

Hernan Miranda Casanova

There is only cartilage, only bones.
I must stitch together gashes that I did not produce.
I must put together the pieces of a cranium.
I am too human to live in peace.

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Sobhaneh* by Mahnaz Badihian

mahmag  •  14 December, 2009

mahnaz badihian

Listening to father’s rhythmic movement around the house
I could hear the softness of his black leather shoes
As he put them on, and holding
A white china bowl painted with red roses
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Felipe Granados

AAlfaro  •  22 November, 2009

flipe granados

The Costa Rican writer and poet Felipe Granados passed away in August 2009 at the age of 33.
"I want them to know that I felt calm on the night that I killed god, I slept like a baby"

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Poetry Review by Mahnaz Badihian / poem by Paul Eluard

mahmag  •  16 November, 2009

paul Eluard

Poem: Je t’aime from the collection Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard translated by Marilyn Kallet
Eluard’s poetry is measured, planned, almost like a mathematical calculation that has the correction sum

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Bejan Baran/Diaspora

mahmag  •  07 November, 2009

bejan baran

Perhaps, some day,
a sunny day,
on the sidewalk, down the street
filled with pigeons
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ENGLISH/ PERSIAN POEMS AND DRAWINGS by M. K. SADIGH

mahmag  •  05 November, 2009


BEYOND COMPREHENTION AND ELAM: A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH AND PERSIAN POEMS AND DRAWINGS
Available at AMAZON.COM
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'Anthology of Protest Poetry ' (Summer 2009 Iran)

mahmag  •  22 October, 2009

Drawing by Mahnaz Badihian

'Anthology of Protest Poetry "(Summer 2009 Iran) which will be available in Farsi soon, with English/Italian/Spanish translations shortly. This Project is a joint effort between Dr. Mahnaz Badihian (poet, educator and activist) and Azadeh Davachi (poet and translator). For any ideas, suggestions or questions please contact publisher@mahmag.org. Below is a poem from that Anthology titled 'Tango in Evin' by Azadeh Davachi.

Guantanamo or Evin
They are only words
That pass through the
Incomplete understanding of geraniums

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review of a poem by"—Carlos Drummond de Andrade"/Mahnaz badihian

mahmag  •  09 October, 2009

mahnaz badihian

As a reader of poetry you always find poets that you can emotionally connect with and feel a specific excitement reading the feelings the poets put down on paper.
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The 100,000,000,000,000 Sonnets/Raymond Queneuau

AAlfaro  •  06 October, 2009

Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), mathematician, poet and novelist, published in 1961 his monumental work Cent Mille Milliards de poèmes (One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets). This herculean work consists of 14 groups of 10 lines of poetry.
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Nosratollah Masoudi

AAlfaro  •  05 October, 2009

Three short poems by Iranian poet Nosratollah Masoudi. The first two are love poems and the last is an elegy.
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