Trapped or Glowing (After execution of Navid Afkari another human rights activist in Iran) I saw dew drops on a spiderweb glowing, in this beautiful morning. Are they trapped, or it’s a place for them to glow? First thing as you woke up in the spiderweb of social media, was that another young braveContinue reading “Poetry by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
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The Torch That We Never Saw. A poem by Mansour Noorbakhsh
The Torch That We Never Saw (A prayer for Afghans and Afghanistan after brutal Taliban advance while American soldiers and diplomats are leaving Afghanistan.) The water hit us like the hard rocks. The darkness engulfed us by the violent waves when we heard the boat breaking and we saw the light of the bullets towardsContinue reading “The Torch That We Never Saw. A poem by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
Reality and Justice. A poem by Mansour Noorbakhsh
Reality and Justice To: 215 children found buried on the site of what was Canada’s largest Indigenous Residential School. We have been playing in darkness with the covered eyes, since we were children then I wanted to find you for I needed to win. Floundered in the footprint of time, I need to find youContinue reading “Reality and Justice. A poem by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
Transplanted. Flash fiction by Mansour Noorbakhsh
Transplanted Agitated, my wife came to the bedroom and called me behind the curtain. “She came again”, my wife said. “She said it makes more gardening work for her. What gardening work might it cause for her?” My wife was talking about a Persian Walnut tree that a friend brought us from Niagara Falls someContinue reading “Transplanted. Flash fiction by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
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