In the Rose Garden
The enciunter I was walking on that crowded street looking for a memory of the past unaware that far beyond the horizon tine has erased my words. Then the echo of your steps one...
Category: Poetry
on the occasion of my Home being bombarded by the enemies inside and outside of my Home.
This piece was written and published in Exiled Writers Ink magazine, Spring edition. My Home Rouhi Shafii I am sitting on the terrace of my apartment in Spanish Andalusia, sipping tea. The Sierras can be...
Songs of Freedom
A report published by Keyhanlondon Life, the English language weekly on the launch of Songs of Freedom, a book of poetry in English by Iranian and Afghan women.
Last night, the launch of Songs of Freedom
An anthology of Iranian and Afghan women poets. This was a collective work published by Afsana Press. Editors were Rouhi Shafii & Shirin Razavian with an introduction by Professor Shahrzad Mojab of Toronto University....
In my solitude
In my solitude, I write your name on a blackboard and wipe it out immediately.In my solitude,I write a poem for you,On the corner of this wine bar.In my solitude I cry my longings...
I want to kiss your lips
with the scent if lemon in my mouth, as I just passed through a lemon bush and picked up the one which was ripe and lemony. I want to kiss your sleepy eyelashes just...
Today is 10 December, and the Day against execution.
In my country, execution of people has turned into a regime game of terror and violence against the Iranian people. This poem was written in memory of the last victim of state violence against...
We cannot separate
written by Ali Rasuli translated by Rouhi Shafii We cannot separate,a moon which has fallen into the sea from the waves. I cannot separate the beauty from your eyes, or the flower from the...
My daughter
She is braiding her hair in the sunshine, and invites me slowly, from the shade to the glare of light. There is a rainbow on the far end of the horizon, left from the...
The Walls
(This poem was written in the wake of the crackdown on the young women demonstrators in Iran who want to be free of Hejab and gender discrimination and live a life of equality, freedom...
