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3 poems by WCLJ Poet in Residence, Mansour Noorbakhsh

To the extent of all your surroundings            __Dedicated to all working children.            “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” __Frederick Douglass Maybe you have been sitting for hours behind trees or in the shade of rocks and hills waiting for the train to come. Maybe you are boredContinue reading “3 poems by WCLJ Poet in Residence, Mansour Noorbakhsh”

3 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh. WCLJ Writer in Residence

Iranian Youth For Mahsa Amini, Nika Shah Karami, Sarina Esmaeilzadeh and all martyrs of freedom I am a generation that my days have never tolerated with me. I see you kill but verbalize the justice. I see you steal but lament because of oppression. I see it’s foul only what you make in the nameContinue reading “3 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh. WCLJ Writer in Residence”