{"id":41103,"date":"2016-08-25T01:43:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T01:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.85.16.36\/63-1-en\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T22:04:58","slug":"63-1-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/63-1-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss &#8211; A poem by Reza Ekvanian and Ali Hosseini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In the past, those days when we were still twenty years old and had a strange sense of poetry, &#8220;Dehdasht&#8221; was young and still had the scent of life. I and &#8220;Ali Hosseini&#8221; were good friends, always together, and still spent the late nights of the weekends together, reciting our shared poems; nights and poems that became known as our &#8220;Cheriki&#8221; nights and poems. After many years, we wrote poetry together again with Ali.<\/p>\n<p>I have written about your arrival;<\/p>\n<p>With my friends<\/p>\n<p>Who are prisoners<\/p>\n<p>We come from the meeting of death<\/p>\n<p>From the meeting of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>From the path we returned<\/p>\n<p>The sun,<\/p>\n<p>Had a heavy red sunset<\/p>\n<p>In constantly burning<\/p>\n<p>From the candles of your name<\/p>\n<p>That with the wind<\/p>\n<p>Dancing in the sky in all directions.<\/p>\n<p>The interrogator says:<\/p>\n<p>We know everything<\/p>\n<p>And your white-haired wife<\/p>\n<p>Has skillful meaty hands;<\/p>\n<p>I look at her<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t cry<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been calm like me<\/p>\n<p>And have you tasted<\/p>\n<p>The words of death<\/p>\n<p>In your mouth?<\/p>\n<p>Do this, my dear<\/p>\n<p>Before you say<\/p>\n<p>I am a death-obsessed and sad poet<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t have a healthy soul and mind,<\/p>\n<p>Do this, my dear.<\/p>\n<p>I allow you to<\/p>\n<p>Be in my place tonight<\/p>\n<p>And at the age of six, fall from a fig tree;<\/p>\n<p>I allow you to<\/p>\n<p>Fall in love at the age of<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>\n<p>9 Khordad 1395<\/h6>\n<h6>\n<p>Reza Akvanian<\/h6>\n<h6>\n<p>Ali Hosseini<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, those days when we were still twenty years old and had a strange sense of poetry, &#8220;Dehdasht&#8221; was young and still had the scent of life. I and &#8220;Ali Hosseini&#8221; were good friends, always together, and still spent the late nights of the weekends together, reciting our shared poems; nights and poems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[53088,54071,50173,50901,52147,54070,45317,50146],"class_list":["post-41103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-82","tag-ali-hosseini","tag-magazine-number-63","tag-poetry","tag-prison","tag-reza-akvaniyan","tag-weight-loss","tag-45317","tag----2"],"acf":[],"views":21,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65513,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41103\/revisions\/65513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}