I’d like to introduce you to Forough Farrokhzad

I’ve “met” a new Iranian poet. Her name is Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967). Listen:

Find out more about here: Forough Farrokhzad & yes, she’s available in translation. I’m reading this one:
Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Sholeh Wolpe.

mjc-Forough Farrokhzad

Favourite part from the above poem:

I will plant
my hands
in the flowerbed

I will sprout
I know
I know
I know

and

the sparrows
will lay eggs
in the hollows
of
my inky fingers…

Shivers, no? These are lovely as well:

In this verse
I sighed you, “Ah,”
In this verse,
I grafted you
to trees
water
and
life

…the lethargic intervals of two lovemakings…

In a room the size of solitude…

…there is an alley
where the boys
who were once in love with me…

mjc

About mjanecolette

Writer. Reader. Angster. Reformed Bohemian (not). Author of the erotic romance TELL ME, the erotic tragedy (with a happy ending) CONSEQUENCES (of defensive adultery), the award-winning rom-com (she's versatile) CHERRY PIE CURE, and TEXT ME, CUPID--a (slightly dirty) love story for 21st century adults who don't believe in love... but want it anyway. A sought-after speaker and presenter, Colette is also the author of the Dirty Writing Secrets Series, which includes the non-fiction collection of essays ROUGH DRAFT CONFESSIONS: not a guide to writing and selling erotica and romance but full of inside inside anyway, 101 FLIRTY WRITING PROMPTS TO SEDUCE YOUR MUSE, and ORGANIZED CREATIVE. She's also the curator of the fab YYC Queer Writers anthologies Queer Christmas in Cowtown, Screw Chocolate, and A Queer Summer Night's in Cowtown. Releasing Spring 2020: CUPID IN MONTE CARLO.

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