Iran literature
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Alireza Ghazveh (Iranian poet)
translator: Hadi Mohammadzadeh
Notes of third war
Say! Poem and knots are right not Cluster bombs.
O God! that you are Creator of Mos'a and Pharaoh together with
That you can convert minor George(Bush) into a sparrow or a gator!
O God! that you created Satan from angel
And you pullout fire through the water.
You created Eve through the left flank of Adam
And, Osame bin Laden through the left flank of Bush.
O God! that you are Creator of Eggplant and United Nations!
Creator of Security Council and backgammon!.
I huntes for the your prophets miracles address.
O God! that you are Creator of Iraq and Washington together with.
That you set up Iraq as old civilization land.
And Washington as missile and buffalo land.
O God! that you are Creator of poem and childish orations of Presidents together with.
Say! that Poem and knots are right not Cluster bombs.
O God! that you are Creator of toweres from the petroleum.
O God! that you are Creator of Naseriya and Baghdad children from "Hanging Gardens" bone.
O God! that you are Creator of Stalin and Menachem Begin.
O God! that you are Creator of Marxes and Aawacses
That you hung Saddam over the Hammurabi land.
You placed King of Kuwait in the matchbox.
O God's the mass tombes of south Iraq!
Divert! From the Najaf's (vadi-al-salam) prophet Hood and prophet Saleh to us, with a miracle.
We are waiting for a miracle except petroleum.
Then O Arab's coffeehouses and water pipes , Onward! a few paces.
O Cabarets with your dancers ,Onward! a few paces.
O sleight of hand's matchbox ,who comes out wax and brush from that, Aback! a few paces.
O Ordoghan And goal in ninety minute , In friendly goal ,who put up at auction your sky ,Aback! a few paces.
Oh my god
what is (Modaffar al Navvab) writing now?
which poem has hiden in Mohammad Al-Maghut's coffee?
O God! that you are Creator of poem and Schiller
O God! that you are Creator of Khayyam and Hafiz and Goethe
O God! that you are Creator of Lorca and Neruda and Ritsos
What was happen if instead of Huntington and Tony Blair and Jack Straw ,
instead of Bush and Rumsfeld and Pauel ,
you had created an Eliot?
Or at least
you had created from the (Wasteland)'s cows
a sparrow or even a gator!
