{"id":211,"date":"2006-11-08T18:56:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T18:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=211"},"modified":"2006-11-08T18:56:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T18:56:59","slug":"the-love-of-year-2020-by-mahnaz-badihian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/the-love-of-year-2020-by-mahnaz-badihian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Of Year 2020- by: Mahnaz Badihian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <b>The Love Of Year 2020<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I feel I have a Poet lover <br \/>\nWho knows all of my untold poems <br \/>\nWhen I gave him my last poem <br \/>\nHe had read it years ago <br \/>\nMy lover is the most important poet I know <br \/>\n <!--more-->He has hundreds of books <br \/>\nHundreds of amorous and philosophical thoughts <br \/>\nWith his poetic sense <br \/>\nThrough my dress he sees me Naked <br \/>\nBoth my body and my soul <br \/>\nAnd shows those images in his poems <br \/>\nHe steps into my ventricles <br \/>\ninvoluntarily I hear his steps <br \/>\nIn the expansion of my lungs <\/p>\n<p>My lover does not look like anyone or anything <br \/>\nBut I know him well <br \/>\nI have not seen him in this town or<br \/>\nIn this house <br \/>\nBut he is with me every second <br \/>\nI found him many years ago <br \/>\nWhen I was in love for no reason <br \/>\nOr I needed to be in love <br \/>\nI found him after I woke from a dream <br \/>\nAnd felt I was crowded <br \/>\nInside me <br \/>\nIn my thoughts <br \/>\nOn my skin <br \/>\nBecause his imaginary presence suddenly<br \/>\nTook me out of my  <br \/>\nAnd thinking of him <br \/>\nGave away my loneliness, and a sense<br \/>\nOf belonging  happiness  and peace <\/p>\n<p>yesterday when the grieving for my mother <br \/>\nWas a small sword poking the vision in my eyes <br \/>\nIt did not take long before my lover<br \/>\nPolished my thoughts <br \/>\nAnd drank my tears <br \/>\nBecause he\u2019s in love with me <\/p>\n<p>My lover  is not a woman <br \/>\nIs not a man, he has no traits of my<br \/>\nSon or my daughter <br \/>\nDefinitely he is not like any one<br \/>\nBut surprisingly in my thoughts <br \/>\nHe plays everyone\u2019s role <br \/>\nAnd he plays his role as a lover the best <br \/>\nHe promised me before I die<br \/>\nOne day he will appear <br \/>\nIn front of my eyes <br \/>\nIn my room <br \/>\nIn my house <br \/>\nIn my city <br \/>\nI believe all he says <br \/>\nI swear to him <br \/>\nThat he is everywhere <br \/>\nAlways.<br \/>\nI do not see any shadows around me!                              <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Love Of Year 2020 I feel I have a Poet lover Who knows all of my untold poems When I gave him my last poem He had read it years ago My lover is the most important poet I know<\/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\/211"}],"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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}