POETRY

Irandokht Jaan; Myth is

Irandokht Jaan;

Myth is exemplification of nessecities and realities of social life. In our case, they clearly reflect the fact that we as a nation basically owe our identity to defying the destrctive elements of history particularly invasion of Anirani people. Even nowadays this is the heart of all our national challenges. In my beleif, all those efforts have been crystalized in the form of our heroes; otherwise the true hero of all those battles and subsequent survival is the Iranian people. Through that window I look at our mythology.

Manoucher Avaznia

Loved your poem

Dear Mr Avaznia

Like your other poems, this is a beautiful work of art. I loved reading it and it made me very emotional.

It also made me think...   I started wondering if all the epic stories we were taught as kids and if all the historical heroes we have come to love are not doing us a disservice now. It seems to me that we were raised to believe that it will take one extraordinary person, a hero who would have to come and save us.

I wonder if we were taught that each one of us is responsible, would we start uniting against the evil powers? If we were taught that there will be no one hero, that we could all be heroes, then would we have worked together and not against each other?  would there be anyone sitting still and hoping that a foreign power would need to intervene to save us?

Thank you again for the amazing poem. You have a gift, thank you for sharing it with us. 

IRANdokht

One Amazing 10 to the poet

You got it right and what matters......long live our godly land away from Bats of darkness.