{"id":100,"date":"2006-05-03T22:38:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T22:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=100"},"modified":"2006-05-03T22:38:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T22:38:36","slug":"esmail-by-mahnaz-badihian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/esmail-by-mahnaz-badihian\/","title":{"rendered":"Esmail  by Mahnaz Badihian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esmail\u2026.           <\/p>\n<p>   For  Esmail Khoi(Iranian poet in exile)<\/p>\n<p>I am talking to you Esmail <br \/>\nWhen was the last time you had a sip<br \/>\nFrom the Caspian Sea <br \/>\nFor dreams to come through <br \/>\n<!--more--> <br \/>\nI am talking to you, Esmail.<br \/>\nWhen was the last time you had a sip<br \/>\nFrom the Caspian Sea,<br \/>\nFor dreams to come through?<\/p>\n<p>When was the last time<br \/>\nYour heavy shoulders <br \/>\nWarmed up with dreams <br \/>\nWhile walking across Persepolis?<\/p>\n<p>Tell me Esmail,<br \/>\nWhen was the last time <br \/>\nYour laughter splashed on your poems,<br \/>\nOn those cruel, lonely nights?<\/p>\n<p>Did I see you crying, quietly?<br \/>\nWalking across King\u2019s Cross <br \/>\nRemembering your country<br \/>\nAnd the ones you left behind?<\/p>\n<p>Tell me Esmail,<br \/>\nYour heart could not take<br \/>\nLoneliness, in search of a love<br \/>\nThat fills your empty palms.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me Esmail that your heart could not <br \/>\nTolerate life without<br \/>\nGlass to glass, cup to cup,<br \/>\nWhen you lost all the loves you had, <br \/>\nBack to back.<\/p>\n<p>Where is this road ending Esmail?<br \/>\nRead me your longest poem<br \/>\nIn the short moments left for us\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esmail\u2026. For Esmail Khoi(Iranian poet in exile) I am talking to you Esmail When was the last time you had a sip From the Caspian Sea For dreams to come through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}