DESPERATE SCREAMS People of the world hear the screams of the suffering and dying brothers. DESPERATE SCREAMS — by :Rosetta Monteforte Racalbuto was last modified: May 15th, 2007 by mahnaz badihian
Thread-like Remembrances From a long Persian poem called “Faalgoosh” A breath of song An ancient song, submitting me R.Rakhshani was last modified: April 27th, 2007 by mahnaz badihian
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 Antonio Gamoneda wins […]
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 […]
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) Katayoon Zandvakili was last modified: April 23rd, 2007 by mahnaz badihian
Listen the most distant bird of the world is singingSOHRAB SEPEHRI TR.FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI NIGHT OF GOOD SOLITUDE (shab e tanhai ye khub) SOHRAB SEPEHRI—– was last modified: April 23rd, 2007 by mahnaz badihian
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; Selected Poems by Vahid Ziaei was last modified: April 20th, 2007 by mahvand sadeghi
Nikki Giovanni: “We Are Virginia Tech” A poet’s words that opens the minds, binds the wounds and sooths the hearts Nikki Giovanni: “We Are Virginia Tech” was last modified: April 18th, 2007 by mahnaz badihian
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. Rumi-/ Shams Tabrizi —Mahnaz Badihian was last modified: April 13th, 2007 by mahnaz badihian
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 Rumi- translated by: Mahnaz Badihian and John Timpane was last modified: April 6th, 2007 by mahnaz badihian