Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh

The symphony of the river tide.

My dreamy eyes surf upon the river,
Where blue tides slide over one another.
The river serves as the mirror of nature,
And nature reflects a higher supernatural order.
The riverside plays a grand symphony,
While the river tide hums a gentle rhapsody.
Ceiling and floor are painted in two hues,
Both bottom and top drenched in deep blues.
Swallows fly over the ancient caves,
Tiny fish leap out from the waves.
Dreamy words emerge from the river,
As realities appear on the flat mirror.
An opaque blue sky, a transparent river,White cloud-brides in the sky, pebbles in the water.
Ballads are sung by water splashing on rocks,
Boats sail past like swift, gliding ducks.
Watermelons are dipped in the chilly water,Cooling themselves in the hot summer weather.
The words inside me float on the tides,
Fish swallow down my poetic baits.
A quiet little mermaid, with her big, keen eyes,Gazes from the distant sunset, back at the sunrise.
©® Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh- Iran
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Nature’s Symphony

Sitting in calm, in nature’s deep core,
Eyeing the colors that creatures wore.
Morning dew dreams on a field of rose,
A marvelous green haze where the wind blows.
Full of the pure smell of mud and clovers,
Full of the fine scent of buds and flowers.
A flock of ducklings on green country roads,
A choir of frogs with a chorus of toads.
Herds of cows and sheep walking around,
Grazing on grass with a low “moo” sound.
Murmurs of tiny fish down in the river,
Whispering breezes that make leaves shiver.
A blazing ball in a feverish red,
Spreading a blanket of light on its blue bed.
Sunrise hues over the fruitful dates,
While love songs echo from avian mates.
The shepherds gather their wandering sheep,
As crickets start chirping with peep, peep, peep.
The village children are flying their kites,
The old men are smoking their hookahs and pipes.
Where earth and heaven meet at the horizon,
A woman bakes bread in a clay oven.
The smell of fresh smoke is spread through the air,
She bakes in a season so lovely and fair—Unforgettable, this earthly heaven!
©️®️Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh

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Children’s rights 

My golden sun of childhood never rose,
Its warmth never reached the cosmos.
Only a doll would wipe my sorrowful tears,
The only beloved among all my dears.
Only she could speak of my passions,
Of my true rights and hidden emotions.
World! Who saw my childhood’s hidden sorrow,
When my tearful face pressed into the pillow?World!
Who could see my childhood on the global stage,
Except for my speechless, kind cloth doll in her cage?My sunflower of childhood never grew,
The spinning top of my fate never flew.
I dreamed of a whimsical balloon at night,
Playing with stars and white birds in flight,
Chasing the joy under warm sunbeams.
Now, I long for those lost childhood dreams.
My orphaned heart needs a mother’s lap,
A father’s warm smile to bridge the gap.
A high education is my absolute right,
To play in deep peace,
far from any fight.World! Give me the chance to go to school,
The right to live by childhood’s true rule.World! Rock me to sleep in your kind cradle,
Sing me to hope with a motherly carol.
I want to be a child of this wide world,
Where peace and children’s rights are unfurled.
©️®️ Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh

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THE MOON IN GLOOM

Oh, cloudy eyes! Oh,
starry nights!Pitter-patter, pitter-patter,
Shed tears for the death of the moon!
Little cameras on roofs to see the bride,
A Pegasus ride on the night tide.
Twilights waiting for the moonlight,
All eyes stare at the bride, white in the night,
Reciting its beauties,
Playing its melodies.
A train takes the moon to the city of wishes,
The train passes through dreamy mountains.
The moon cheers from the window of the sky train,Stars applaud the moon’s ride in heaven.
The silvery moon shines every night,No one gets lost in the moonlight.
The moon, the light of the poor hut,
The moon, the balloon of the poor child,
The moon, through which the velvet heaven is seen,
The moon, the pretty bride of the night,
The moon, the ballerina of the night,
The moon, the palette of the artistic night,
The moon is the lantern of the night.
The moon listens to the sorrow inside,
The moon, a sonnet in the quiet night,
The moon, the ring of a pure love.
Black nights covered the beams of moonlight,
The smiling moon forgot how to laugh,
The swan of the night sky is caged in the dark lake,
The dark cosmos swallowed the pearl of night.
Oh, cloudy eyes! Oh, starry nights!Pitter-patter, pitter-patter,Shed tears for the death of the moon!
©️®️ Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh

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Forest of Stars

Passing through endless forests on starry nights,
Like the shining moon of the sky in the dark nights.
Dim lanterns hanging from dark green heights,
Green lanterns hanging from tall trees of the night.
How sweet it is to wait for dawn in long nights,
How sweet it is to fly among the petals.
How sweet it is to see the bright Canopus,
How sweet it is to wait for the rising sun’s rays.
How sweet it is to worship within the jungles,
How sweet it is to walk through the woods of stars.
Does everyone know well the address of the home stars?
Does everyone cross the same path through the trees of stars?
All know the green velvet carpet of God’s nights,
Can everyone cross the forest of stars on dark roads at night?
Now, the earth is full of pale, dead autumn leaves,
Every night, countless stars fall upon the fields.
Someday, those glittering stars twinkled toward us,
Now, you and I are among the new twinkling stars.
Forest of Stars
©️®️Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh

Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh (born in Tehran, Iran, May 23, 1969) is an acclaimed international, multi-award-winning, multidisciplinary, visionary professional Iranian artist (arts and literature), a bilingual poet and writer (English and Persian), a cultural ambassador, art juror, photographer, translator, critic, art consultant, TEFL educator (with 31 years of experience), and painting teacher (with 17 years of experience) under the supervision of the Education Organization of Iran. Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh is the only Iranian female nominee selected for the CIESART International Awards 2026 – Spain in three categories: painting, poetry, and education.

The artist began her international artistic activities in 2019. She actively participated on the global stage in festivals and biennials, as well as in numerous prestigious competitive and non-competitive exhibitions in Iran and worldwide. She also took part in many different art events organized by reputable international art groups, academies, galleries, and museums.

She serves as an Official International Ambassador for BAG International Artist Group, India; IAC Org., Pakistan; CIESART Org., Spain; and as Ambassador for New Zealand National Poetry Day; Ambassador for Emotions in Art Healing Studio of the USA; and Vice President (Vice-Chancellor) of the Student Chancelleries (Cancillerías Estudiantiles), Colombia.

Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh is renowned for her signature hyper-polychromatic style—a hyperrealist approach defined by a brilliantly saturated palette and exquisite precision in texture, light, and form.

Mehrangiz has experienced various veteran and contemporary painters’ styles of the world. She also created many of her own abstract paintings, but eventually the painstaking, time-consuming, and highly detailed Hyperrealism style became her special passion and her artistic signature.

She devotes long hours, with patience, perseverance, and deep passion, to her hyperrealistic drawings and paintings. She colors her paintings by layering technique with great care and patience, pixel by pixel, to create a soft texture on her canvas or cardboard.

Her inspiration is often a fusion of images of women, girls, and children—both folkloric and non-folkloric—alongside the faces of influential cultural and scientific figures, both pioneers and contemporaries, combined with original drawings, self-portraits, and still lifes.

In these faces, she seeks more than mere beauty; her goal is to create a dialogue between tradition and modernity, between the past and the present.

She also wishes to use her paintings to introduce the cultures, clothing, and objects of Iran and of different ethnic groups around the world, and she considers her art a means of creating love, friendship, peace, unity, and harmony among the people of the world.

Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh’s visual creations have inspired international poets and writers to compose extensive reviews and ekphrastic poetry, while prominent illustrators have recreated her iconic compositions. A bilingual hyperpoem poet and short story writer, her literary works—weaving nature, mysticism, ekphrasis, and sublime emotions—have been translated into multiple languages and featured in international anthologies and the press.