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Ali Abdolrezaei

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 You are shot there
so the red cells flower ... in Freedom Avenue
you die
so snow
with its white cells
soft and softly
shroud you
hide you
so an ill wind won’t blow
to steel you who were not of them

You are not of them
your arteries are arteries of a city
that which beats in Revolution Square
is still your heart
which sends off
one by one
all taxis down any street that leads
like a dark vein
toward my heart
that is Freedom Square

We both fight in the same street
you are shot there
I die here

 Author: Ali Abdolrezaei
Translator: Abol Froushan
 

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Black Sea


Author: Ali Abdolrezaei
Translator: Abol Froushan

The river runs through my home that has run?
Or too soon.  Too soon is it to ask this rover for help?
Where does the sea rive
In... Or... !?
You would love to tip off this boat of broken oar
Or am I the wave that turns  not to return?
The briny sea  in this far shore   lacked only you    my humerus
do not pour such humor  on this dear wound
In the end this naked soul
Other than that naked soul
What can it be?    A naked soul?

Me having love affair now with whomever
And being whoever you want
What do you mean you being whatever I want you to be?
Or like some watermelon thrown in ice
In the heat of summer
For me to cry hug me I'm freezing!?

Like a child's wanting mother - ma tear
Someone come like scream into my words
Until when this wave pound
Its head on those two mounds up there
And these two crevices down here!?

The sea is still at work
A wave summersaults and Alexander
Returns to his sea      black in the face

by Ali Abdolrezaei

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Pomegranate


Author: Ali Abdolrezaei
Translator: Abol Froushan

This dry tree
how has it arranged itself so well
so well ... under the rain.... to stand up?
The pomegranate that’s hanging
why should someone squeeze .... who knows nothing?

Why the rain that should rain down in this poem doesn’t rain?

And life.... this short lullaby.... finally puts me to sleep
on a page that spent a life in ‘I don’t know’

How many times should I write
the poem ... that I’ll never write?
I’m sure....London’s blood group
which most likely is O or
doesn’t match mine
because I keep hitting the rain...keep getting wet

What ecstasy revolves round this
thought that’s in my mind
I wish someone came
to stop this Dervish that keeps twirling in my head
the rain that keeps raining no longer comes to my poem

This cursed beast
has brought tears to all eyes

This inquisitor
who drags so much out of the clouds over London

Is someone idling up there
or is it true
that it’s still raining?

We all die
so nothing ends
what a shame

by Ali Abdolrezaei


 

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