Sastri Bakry
Gift Bomb for Little Girl
My eyes behold the carnage,
Limbs scattered, head buried,
An arm here, a leg there,
Eyeballs defiant, bodies torn,
Blood congeals, rage boils,
If on
Behzad Zarrinpoor
Translation: Maryam Ala Amjadi
Iranian poet, Behzad Zarrinpoor was born in 1969 in Khorramshahr. From a high school teacher and a journalist to a publisher,
I have been witness to the world's oldest Poetry Festival (Struga Poetry Evening) recently. Struga, where poetry blossoms as a tree in a poetry garden,