Reza Shantiya

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Iranian poet, Reza Shantiya was born in 1979 in Tehran. His debut book of poems 'Stone Age' was designated as the 'Best Iranian Poetry of Today' in 2001. Shantiya is a graduate of Law from Tehran University. 'Dispersing Falsities' (2007) and 'The Gospel of Shantiya' (2008) are among his other collections of verses)

The Best Poem Of Reza Shantiya

Warning

All of me
is taken up by the gallows
All the same
I am a neck and a head
beyond death
The earth from this height
is just
earth from height
and the only thing that has changed, is it my voice?

Like a fish, in a few moments, I will try to swallow my hook and reach my chiaroscuro- that
broke my thirty ninth rod and fled

So my eyes have opened up like a hawk
and a more altered voice comes out of my end
I will play the rest of this game under the earth..
I will copy my death from the one next to me..
No, no, I..won't die

I will only become ants
as much as my entire being

(Now like a good boy, he goes to his ancestral home, lulls himself to sleep and wakes himself up in a better world)

Get up!
Here, the shoulders of the city of pain are broad
Leave your coffins in the hands of the wind
And get lost as quickly from this poem
Before anything,
pomegranate trees have sucked all
blood out of the dead.



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Translation: Maryam Ala Amjadi

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