A report on early child marriage in Iran
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Impossible
A poem written by Saeed Mobasher, winner of Jaleh Esfahani poetry competition Translated from Farsi by Rouhi Shafii Impossible Impossible was thinking of travelling into the future no one speaks of us into the...
Scent of Saffron
Autobiography Published in 1997 by Scarlet Press, London. The scent of Saffron is a historical autobiography of the author’s life from before she was born to the end of the years she lived in...
Migrating Birds
Translation of 50 poems written by Jaleh Esfahani A selection of poems written by Jaleh Esfahani Migrating Birds پرندگان مهاجر Translated from Persian by Rouhi Shafii Introduction Memorandum to the reader I began to...
The wind
The southern, angry thunder gushes through the valley. The mountain peak looks down to trace the footsteps of the words where they got lost in the folds of paper. The words which wrote the...
I was walking down the memory lane
I was walking down memory lane and your strides cut through the silence of time. A white dove flew past the cloudy path The murmur of voices were heard no more. A drop of...
Perhaps I go back to the beginning
Perhaps I go back to the beginning and rename the road or erase the memory of destination altogether. Perhaps I sit at the edge of the river where water gushes from the unknown and...
When you are so close
You wanted to jump in and sail into the unknown over the waves of the moment. And I stood still thinking how can you be so close to me and so faraway? You stood...
What if
What if I hadn’t departed so fast and waited for the first spring and the daffodils to bloom? What if love hadn’t been erased from the memory of the garden? What if I had...
