Poetry

I’m in a dreamAnd it feels real in the extreme I’m on a mountainThat shoots up like a fountain I look up highAnd the limit is the sky I look downAnd like a bottomless wellIt reaches all the way to hell The next thing I knowI begin to slip below But I am too tired …

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If there is a place called truthIt’s called a SukkahWhere we live in a booth The walls are flimsyAnd you have leaves as a roof You see through and throughNot just to the starsBut to the essence of you Who are you?You are not white or blackNor tan, brown, or blueYou are not the image …

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For my grandfather, who spent his life longing to return to IranFor my father, who dreams of visiting the city he grow up in, with his son For my parents, who even after 40 years Iran never left their heartFor the 10 million who fled because they were torn apart For all the blood that …

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Once upon a time there was A Violin and Cello Each didn’t like the other They wanted to play solo  They clashed like purple and yellow The violin was high pitched The cello was more mellow  When each heard the other They became bothered Why do you not sound like me Yet make a sound …

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Loss of a loved one Is a loss of one But not a loss of love The love lives on and on Long past your one is gone Just like love is invisible So too your love for your one was Never dependent on what was visible For love never existed because of one’s presenceBut persisted because of their essence  So …

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We are one and twoI am not only me but youThere are lies in what’s trueThere is old within the newThe ocean is colorless yet blueWe are the same even though we grewWe know but yet we don’t have a clueThere are many in the fewMaybe the best course of action is not to doNot …

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Dying? Not afraidNot trying? With fear I am plagued My heart achesJust the thought makes me shakeI pray and I pray That should never be my fate My biggest fear Is my fear to fear deathBecause then I know I did not tryAnd lived a life bereft of depthFor life is not measured in breathBut how much we …

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If your legs are wobblingDoes it mean you are not standing?If your hands are shakingDoes it mean you are not holding?If you are tremblingDoes it mean you are not transcending? And If you feel weakDoes it mean you are not strong?If you are scaredDoes it mean you are not brave?If you are breakingDoes it mean you …

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I believe  I believe  The chances may be bleak Hope could be quite a feat In this darkness to achieve But even when the sword is pressed on my neck And I slowly begin to bleedAnd it’s hard for me to breathe My eyes flutter And I begin to heaveMy pulse fadesMy consciousness begins to recede  But I will not concedeI will …

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If I am not IThen who will be I?But if I am only IThen I am not even I And my I is a lie But if I am not just IBut I am I And I am YouThen I am now more than I And that is true For only and only  When I am youAnd I am …

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