Chahar Fasl!

Kouroush Sassanian
by Kouroush Sassanian
09-Jul-2008
 

She was the first always to declare Spring:

Fortune Shone bright in her as Summer approached.

Fought for years; with no effort to see any seasons

she conquered the palace of Ice, to wit:

We ran into the depths of Earth - six feet no more;

 

She prepared a bed of Roses even Attila refused,

Scourge of God here for my bleeding heart,

Spite of her many loves, Men loved her the same;

pale ray of good fortune on this heart, one beat less,

Met scoffing and blame with thunders of Fall - one leaf less.

When we erred, they gave her pity for Winter has come - one life less,

But me -- only pain - no more or less.

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ONE BIGGER AND BIGGER AND HAPPIER AND HAPPIER

by Rosie T. on Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:16 AM PDT

FAMILY.  ALL THE USUAL SUSPECTS.

who wouldda thought six months ago when I "left"? When Maz "left"?

Blood really IS thicker than water.

burgundy, crimson,

vermillion.

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Nadias

I am..........

by Nadias on Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:14 AM PDT

 .

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I am your mirror

look upon me

what is the reflection

that you see

 

I am your compass

when you are set a drift

I shall guide you

 on your path

 

 

I am your latern

guiding your path

As you journey

through the mist

 

I am your life boat

as you find yourself in peril

In the middle

of the storm

 

I will be the rope

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Rosie T.

Oh Kouroush I'm SURE she is all of us...

by Rosie T. on Wed Jul 09, 2008 05:04 PM PDT

and isn't it lovely how "all of us" are here together again on this thread?

I mean...just LOOK at all of us...one big happy family!

Plus ca change, plus ca reste egal  (the more things change the more things stay the same...

Catchya later,KiaroStami/Killer Shark..

And the rest of the Swiss Family Robinson.

 

Rosie


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Kouroush Sassanian

Sepas.....

by Kouroush Sassanian on Wed Jul 09, 2008 04:36 PM PDT

I am glad you have enjoyed my poem.

She is all of us - she has been lost to many, won by many, enjoyed by many, recreated by many - be khad sepordan - Sepas!


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Rosie T.

this is sooo gorgeous, i didn't know when you posted your poem

by Rosie T. on Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:12 PM PDT

on my last blog, which i answered you there btw, that you were going through something like this.  i had no idea.  i'm so sorry.  well you read vermillion you know what i went through...for people like us who move so intensely between the dark and the light with so little midddle ground if you know what i mean, although i do think you probably have less middle than I...

 

you're gonna take the punge.  and then you're gonna rise.  and then plunge again...and rise again...and...

 it's...Orphic...there's just no choice...

until finally we plunge enough and then...it's...radiance...

 

it's the suffering, the suffering that purifies before the most

 intense ecstatic

radiance...

RADIANT

you are like a field

radiant with roses

you're just waiting for a seed

to sow

i know it.

all you have to do is say

i am

i can

i am not afraid

and open up your mind

your heart

your eyes

and every orifice

and you

will grow

and you will be a field

radiant

with roses

you already are

natars.

i know it.

 

oh kouroush i am SO SO happy that you continued to write poetry...  i am SO SO SO happy, even though i know right now

you're so so sad..

but...

YOU ARE RADIANT.

Love always,

your rosie

she who "prays with her legs"....lol


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Mazloom

A very touching poem

by Mazloom on Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:49 AM PDT

One counts how long one has lived

By the memory of the loved one

                       One has lived


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Jahanshah Javid

Excellent

by Jahanshah Javid on Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:18 AM PDT

Hard to say "very beautiful" for such a sad occasion. But that's what it is. Thank you for sharing.


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