American-Iranian Spiritual Poet based in Abu Dhabi, UAE
How does one begin to sit with the news of the shooting at Sandy Hook School in Connecticut. I am reminded of the times I have seen a child fall on the ground with a scratched up knee, and how my heart beats faster. Now to think of children’s blood being shed and on the [...]
It is October once again, and somehow everywhere I look there is pink. Yes, it is Breast Cancer awareness Month. Do I want to know how I can beat the odds and not be the one out of eight women with breast cancer. Yes, I do want to know. If there is a knowing [...]
It is hard to find the place in my throat where a sound may come and I may say a few words. On such days, as today, another 13, 19, or more die. But on such a day, the children do not die of famine, disease or earthquake. They die of a fire inside a [...]
Memorial Day How does one mark the days that one does not remember How does one mark a grave with no name but only with a life inside no longer It is in service that most of these burials have happened and it is in remembering that we remind ourselves it is good not to [...]
Today I would like to honor all those nurses around the world who wear white on their shoulders and blood on their hands. Today I would like to honor all those nurses around the world that sit at the bedside of your mother and mine when we are too weak or busy. Today I would [...]
I have been waiting for this moment for all my life I have been waiting for the arrival of me to recognize myself resurrected as The Child of God Today is the day we celebrate the birth and rebirth of Jesus Today is the day I celebrate recognizing myself with no clothes on I have [...]
THE WHITE CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN JAPAN The white cherry blossoms of the beautiful Japanese trees being washed away by the tsunami. The nuclear reactor is only the sign of the angry feelings upon the sky. The shaking of the earth in the earthquake with the magnitude of hundreds of thousand of lives. The reality of [...]
Sadness is much like a colony of mushrooms that start to overtake a dark forest. First there is the forest, then there are the trees, then there is the darkness and the damp air and moist soil, then there is the cooing of the owls and the calling of the kayotes. Then in that space [...]
On this day of love and hugs and kisses It is important to recall that there are those who have lost a love One can lose a love to another One can lose a love due to lack of respect and giving worth And yet it is possible one may have lost a love to [...]
The picture which speaks a thousand and one words with out even seeing the mouths of the speakers The picture which captures humanity in its nudity and humanity veiled The picture which shows the hands of a healer wearing white gloves Notice the gloves which seem to bear holes on the top as if that [...]
Last night before I was falling asleep, I started imagining what if each night before I wanted to sleep I had to dismantle myself and put myself piece by piece on the bedside table;what would be left.I am not quite sure of what would be left,but let me start by the beginning of [...]
To write about death, one must first define death. Is death simply when we stop breathing or is it in fact when we stop living. I would like to acknowledge that I have experienced my own death, I do not mean an out-of-body experience, but more so, I mean an out-of-state of mind experience. Not [...]
If life were the breaths we were taking and nothing else but that its emptiness would be felt as soon as a breath was let out and there was no one around to feel the warmth Life is the sequence of events that start to happen to us as we step foot into the world [...]
When we think of birth we think of an infant being born into the world. When I think of birth I think of the seed in gestation that has been awakened to see the light. So if today is your birthday, it can be the day you were born out of the womb and into [...]
It had been a while since i had written….. Sure I had written a few poems here and there, but nothing that FELT like ANYTHING. Until this morning when I woke up at around four am. I wanted to go back to sleep, but then i listened to my SELF and I got up and [...]
