{"id":302,"date":"2007-06-29T21:18:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T21:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=302"},"modified":"2007-06-29T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T21:18:22","slug":"salamander-mahnaz-badihian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/salamander-mahnaz-badihian\/","title":{"rendered":"Salamander&#8212;Mahnaz Badihian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20070419-mahnaz...........JPG' width='110' height='166' alt='null' \/><\/div>\n<p><b><br \/>\nAnd we never asked what<br \/>\nThe Salamander said for survival<\/b><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<b>Salamander<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t exist<br \/>\nWhen the mountains, plains and books<br \/>\nwere here<br \/>\nAnd that proud evergreen which<br \/>\nWill never bow for you<br \/>\n<!--more--> <br \/>\n<b>Salamanders<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nI didn\u2019t exist<br \/>\nWhen the mountains, plains and books<br \/>\nWere here<br \/>\nAnd that proud evergreen which<br \/>\nWill never bow for you<br \/>\nYou did not exist<br \/>\nWhen Zayandeh Rud<br \/>\nWas whispering the rhythms of sand<br \/>\nIn the ears of poplar trees<br \/>\nUnder Isfahan\u2019s sunrise<br \/>\nWe did not exist<br \/>\nWhen the salamanders<br \/>\nWere reviewing a new plan<br \/>\nFor their eternity in this world<br \/>\nNow you and I<br \/>\nAre here<br \/>\nAnd they are stoning us<br \/>\nIn the streets of patience<br \/>\nWith freedom verses in our head<br \/>\nWe are here <br \/>\nAnd they are penetrating<br \/>\nThe verses of humiliation <br \/>\nAnd death in our heads<br \/>\nWe are here<br \/>\nAnd they are choking<br \/>\nThe human right rhythm<br \/>\nIn their bloody feast<br \/>\nWe are here my Beloved<br \/>\nAnd every day<br \/>\nThe bodies of Evergreens<br \/>\nAnd Poplar trees pile up<br \/>\n In the Tigris River<br \/>\nAnd we never asked what<br \/>\nThe Salamander said for survival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we never asked what The Salamander said for survival &#8212;&#8212;- Salamander I didn\u2019t exist When the mountains, plains and books were here And that proud evergreen which Will never bow for you<\/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\/302"}],"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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}