Iran literature
Thursday, June 12, 2003
Say That Poetry and Hyacinthes are rightful not Cluster bombs.
Alireza Ghazveh (Iranian poet)
Edited by Dr. Tahere Saffarzadeh
Translator: Hadi Mohammadzadeh
Notes on the third war
O God! You who are Creator of Mussa and Pharaoh.
That you can convert minor George Bush into a sparrow or an alligator!
O God! that you created Satan from angel
And you who pull out fire through the water.
You created Eve from the left flank of Adam
And, Osame bin Laden from the left flank of Bush.
O God! you who are Creator of Eggplant and United Nations!
Creator of Security Council and backgammon!.
I search for your prophets miracles's address.
O God! you who are Creator of both Iraq and Washington.
That you set up Iraq as the land of old civilization And Washington as the land of missile and buffalo.
O God! you who are Creator of both the poetry and childish orations of the Presidents.
Say that Poetry and Hyacinthes are rightful not Cluster bombs.
O God! you who are Creator of sky-scraperes out of oil.
O God! you who are Creator of Naseriya and Baghdad children from Hanging Gardens bone.
O God! you who are Creator of Stalin and Menachem Begin.
O God! you who are Creator of Marxes and Awacses you who hung Saddam over the Hammurabi land.
You who placed King of Kuwait in the matchbox.
The mass graves of south Iraq's God! Divert From the Najaf's Vadi-al-salam Hood the prophet and Saleh the prophet to us, with a miracle.
We are waiting for a miracle apart from oil.
Then O Arab's coffee-houses and water pipes , onward! a few paces.
O cabarets with your dancers ,onward! a few paces.
O juggler's sleight of a matchbox ,who come out wax and brush from that, Aback! a few paces.
O Ordoghan And goal in ninety minute , in friendly goal ,who put up your sky at auction,aback! a few paces.
Oh my God! what is Mozaffar al Navvab writing now?
Which poetry has hiden Mohammad Al-Maghut's in his coffee?
O God! you who are the Creator of poetry and Schiller
O God! you who are the Creator of Khayyam and Hafiz and Goethe
O God! you who are the Creator of Lorca , Neruda and Ritsos
What would happen if instead of Huntington and Tony Blair and Jack Straw ,
instead of Bush and Rumsfeld and Pawell ,
you had created an Eliot?
Or at least
you had created from the Wasteland's cows
a sparrow or even an alligator!
