Category: Poetry

I want to plant the sun

I want to plant the sun on every corner , and slowly, slowly borrow its warmth to plant it in those hearts which had frozen in time. I want to travel round the world...

The encounter

I was walking among the crowded streets looking for particles of your smile, unaware that far beyond the horizon, time has frozen my world. The echo of your steps, one by one resounding in...

I am searching

I am searching, through the crowded streets. Someone is waiting for me. Someone who speaks my language. Someone whom I don’t have to explain where I have been before now. Before I got lost...

The meeting

in this grey, chilly day, I went past the street which was once shared by me and you, and the children of course. Those lovely souls, who are children no more. The hum of...

Roundabout of Love

Take root. site inside my heart. A heart which was once beating with thunderous joy at the sight of you. Now, a strand of a grey hair here, wrinkles under the eyes there. The...

When did we become strangers?

Don’t know when did we become strangers? or why or how? All that is registered in my clouded memory is the smile whithered, the door shut, and the memory of closeness faded into the...

In loving memory of a friend

my friend, mehri jafari Come back from the cold. The finality is not the final. I remember you, when you envelop your hands around my face to see the reflection of your smile In...

In this crowded street

Waiting and searching among the crowd for a face that is not like any other face. Conversation flows and flies from every corner. Words jump around and paint the memory of yesterday or today,...

A black bird on the road

A black bird opened its wings which were white underneath and let me read the message sent by the high winds which gushed through the valley. Do not cross roads with me. I am...

The sounds of water

The sound of water from where it comes, to where it runs. Heaving as it passes under the bridge. Murmuring in the brook on the green. Roaring as it falls down from the height....