Eventful Turns
by Leah Aronoff

Enigmatic, sudden, irrational shifting swirls,
flashes of synapses in the nervous system.
Is it complexity or the whistling surge of power that exhilarates?
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The Uppity Puppets

by Mike Murphy

Once upon a time

On a small planet

There lived

Two puppets side by side,
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This July Mahnaz Badihian(American/Iranian poet), along with other poets from the United States and Brazil are gathering in Sao Paulo, Brazil in a workshop by famed poet Edward Hirsch.

And we never asked what
The Salamander said for survival
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Salamander

I didn’t exist
When the mountains, plains and books
were here
And that proud evergreen which
Will never bow for you

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Translated by:Michael d'Esposito" from Italian .

The gaze fathoms
from the dark edges the bottom
of the well, invisible, the danger.
The grown ups warn,
beware of the tarantula.

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DESPERATE SCREAMS
People of the world
hear the screams
of the suffering and dying
brothers.

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Thread-like Remembrances


From a long Persian poem called “Faalgoosh”

A breath of song

An ancient song, submitting me


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Now I ask myself no more
Why love is a bloodstained face.

ALCALA DE HENARES, Spain - Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda has received the Cervantes Prize, drawing parallels between his childhood in poverty and the hardship endured by the writer whose name adorns Spain's top literature award
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In the West, Intellect is the source of life,
In the East, Love is the basis of life.
Through Love, Intellect grows acquainted
with Reality,
And Intellect gives stability to the work of
Love,
Arise and lay the foundations of a new world,
By wedding Intellect to Love
Muhammad Iqbal was born on November 9, 1877, at Sialkot, Punjab. His grandfather Shaikh Rafiq, a Kashmiri, had joined a wave of migration
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The Eglantine Deal

We’re both on our knees to someone only we see.

There is a gold coffin suspended in space,

haze like a soft and distant drum-roll

(Schumann’s nocturne)

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Listen the most distant bird of the world is singingSOHRAB SEPEHRI

TR.FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI


NIGHT OF GOOD SOLITUDE

(shab e tanhai ye khub)



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The City of Salty Water

by Vahid Ziaei
Translated from Persian by Parvin Toluei

… This one at noon
And the lake,
Four steps and harmonized;



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Nikki Giovanni: "We Are Virginia Tech"

A poet's words that opens the minds, binds the wounds and sooths the hearts

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Shams Tabrizi

Eight centuries ago in the middle of a Middle Eastern bazaar in Qonya, in modern day Turkey, a vagabond dervish approached an eminent scholar and asked him a philosophical question.
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Ghazal# 56
ببستي چشم يعني وقت خواب است
نه خواب است آن،‌حريفان را جواب است

closed your eyes, that is, time to sleep
It's not sleep; it's a response to an opponent

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