PERSIAN PAINTING-40

*naghashi ghahvehkhaneh

*PERSIAN WEDDING II
Excitement in silence
As a short poem
To say the wedding night of the world
the moon and
the night
Coming along
As a short poem
With excitement in silence
.....

PERSIAN PAINTING-38

*miniature

*PERSIAN WEDDING I

AWE IN SILENCE

WHEN WE GAZE AT

SHADOW OF SILENCE

PERSIAN PAINTING-39

*miniaturesque

painting by farah ossouli

*PEEKABOO

snow drop

a shadow

over evergreen

BLUE FALL

Was it sky                                 
Or just snow                                                
Falling blustery blue

I WANNA BE INVICTUS LIKE NELSON MANDELA

I WANNA BE INVICTUS LIKE NELSON MANDELA
I wanna be civilized like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be lover like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be sober like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be speaker like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be opposition like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be protester like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be patriot like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be politician like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be patient like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be prisoner like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be president like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be visionary like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be inspirational like Nelson Mandella
I wanna be young like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be sport fan like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be South African like Nelson Mandela
I wanna be black like Nelson Mandela
FARAMAZ SOLEIMANI
1.31.2011

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN,QUARTET IN POEM

Wind blew shadow of roses
Shadow of roses on the wall
Hands volleying
Walls over bodies
DEATH
AND THE MAIDEN
Red smoke in the wind
Wind dancing in your tress
Wind is gone
With the wind
DEATH AND
THE MAIDEN
Love is on the run
Blood and bodies
Hidden in dark chambers
Tortured and torcherer
Are confused
Lantern in the wind
Shadows of roses
On the wall
DEATH AND THE
MAIDEN
Rocky rocks
Rocks road to the nest
Waves grow on the rocks
Men's lonely look from cliff
Terrace of the sea
Voices of the wave
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

TOP TEN COMPOSERS : DEATH AND FRANZ SCHBERT

MODIFIED: 2.14.2012
TOP TEN COMPOSERS:
10.FRANZ SCHUBERT
b VIENNA,31 JANUARY 1797
d  19 NOVEMBER 1828
Schubert ,one of top ten composers in our list ,known with his songs and sweet melodies,especially his chamber musics,such as Rosamunde theme and DEATH AND THE MAIDEN,inspiring a paly by Ariel Dorfman,the Chilian American writer and scholar,and a movie by Roman Polanski,with Segourney Weaver,Ben Kingsley and Stuart Wilson.
Schubert in his life,curtailed by siphilis,also wrote orchestral pieces including his unfinished symphony,in 1822.He finished his other 8 symphonies and two Italian Style overtures among others.

The Death and The Maiden ,
an epic political play of Chile during Pinochet era by Ariel Dorfman,
a brilliant movie of Roman Polanski,with hilarious act of Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley
could be found in internet movie database ,
to celebrate Franz Schubert's birthday and his finished and mostly unfinished opus.
And here is August Rieder's painting of  F Schubert,1825

TOP TEN THRONE +

TOP TEN COMPOSERS
MODIFIED 2.14.2012
After writing a note on TOP TEN COMPOSERS of NEW YORK TIMES and incorporated it in COMPOSERS CORNER of 5/20/2009,now I like to see readers opinion on omissions:
4.HAYDN is father of string quartet and symphonies
5.SHOSTAKOVICH
6.TCHAIKOWSKY with symphonies and piano concerti
7.CHOPIN
8.SCHUMANN
9.DVORAK,as ethnomusicologist omited in favor of BARTOK and his folk music
+DUKE ELLINGTON,also mentioned by one ,as omission.And
As mentioned,no list without MAHLER,is valid!
See More:
Scubert,on his birthday:January 31

LOOSE LEAF

Loose leaf in realm of reality
Each time you are opened
To write on you
A page flies
in the wind.
It is either  a
Harsh chapter
In opening
Or a habitual
Softy loose leaf

PERSIAN (FAUX) PRINCE

prince of persia,a movie in computer compromised epoch of motion picture

TAHMINA,Daughter of Turan
On the wide shoulders of
ROSTAM DASTAN,
Nobel son of Zal
who is turning somersaults
on the dirt roofs of ZABOL,in SISTAN,
and astonished FERDOSI
The Poor Epic Poet OF Tus
sitting on tall stool of  a sport bar
in Disneyland
throwing up all the bitter words
he drank in 30 years.
Soltan said :
HAKIM!
Sometimes it's nice to see
E Caricatures
on 3D screen

PERSIAN PAINTING-37

persian painting by hossein kazemi

*FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI:
THE LAST REVERIE OF DUST AND FIRE
In reverie of a journey
there was reverie of a happening.
I take the road
by the wave
to your dream
and your dream
in reverie of dusat and fire
interrupted anew.
It was a long howl
in ethereal space
to bear
our accidental memory.
-from: THE LAST REVERIE OF DUST AND FIRE
modified 2011

PERSIAN PAINTING-36

calipainting/khatnaghashi by:Ehsai Mohamad,Tehran Museum of contemporary art,Tehran,Iran

Echo of wordrawings
Echo of menwomen with accent
In old LalehzarEstambol Street

OMRAN SALAHI: MOTHER'S BREAST MILK

Mother's breast milk smells eau de cologne
Father's hand smells sweats
(I said I'm a kid, I don't get it)
Bread smelled kerosene
Life smelled shit
(I said I'm young, I don't get it)
Now that I am retired
Whatever smells whatever ,let them do
Only park does not smell cemetery
and eggs carton,does not smell book
Tr;F.S.

DIGITAL FREEDOM,FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Now that in George Mason University,The Virginia Opera is performing Wagner's epic Wlkyrie,and its Ring Cycle,one wants to think more of Dictators and their Devildomes.The disposable omnipotent gods of politics are loosing their powers everywhere,including Tunisia,Sudan,Egypt,Yemen...They are loosing their magic ring ,as well.So the first thing they do is taking control of media,while media,especially at digital age is uncontrollable,as is the people's willpower.Digital media,especifically is an extension of human minds and memories, and coud not and will not be intimidated or limited.
"EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT  TO FREEDOM OF OPINION AND EXPRESSION",According to Article 19,U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights,"THIS RIGHT INCLUDES FREEDOM TO SEEK,RECIEVE AND IMPART INFORMATION AND IDEAS THROUGH ANY MEDIA AND REGARDLESS OF FRONTIERS."
The other day when I unsuccessfully attempted to post my note on Bannad Books in Social Network,once again thought of freedom of expression in digital media .To prove its everlasting power,now I have decided to share my thoughts.
I also have shared my thoughts elsewhere,in:
www.doniayesokhan.blogspot.com/bannedbooksonblog

PERSIAN PAINTING-35:LOVING OF LOVEپرده ی پارسی

painting by: sohrab sepehri
فرامرز سلیمانی:پرده ی پارسی-٣٥
که عاشقی به عشق
 یکسان است
در تمام زبان ها
As loving love
Is all the same
In all languages

PERSIAN PAINTING-34:HOUR GLASS BRIDGE

sohrab sepehri's painting

Passing through hour glass bridge
All is sand of time
Misty lost in the mist

JACKSON POLLOCK,ANATOMY OF AN ARTIST

 JACKSON POLLOCK,AMERICAN ARTIST,PAINTER and Action Painter,DRIPPER,ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST,and a symbol of AMERICAN PAINTING
b.28 JAN 1912,CODY,WYOMING
d,11 AUG 1956 in car accident,Springs,Long Island,New York
POLLOCK was influenced by PABLO PICASSO and MIRO,but more than these two,MASSON ,The French Surrealist Artist,was a great influence on him.This will not deny Pollock's originality,and or what is called ACTION PAINTING ,through his pure plastic performance,or in automaticity.That's what he phrased it as I'M NOT AWARE OF WHAT I'M DOING

ACTION PAINTING,a term coined by art critics

 POLLOCK's LAVENDER MIST,in NGA,WASHINGTON,D.C.

JACKSON Pollock's work: Mural on indian red ground,Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art,Tehran,Iran

Pollock in Action Painting,in his atelier of Spring,N.Y.,now as a museum

Ed Harris with Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly in the movie:POLLOCK(2000),

Directed by:Ed Harris

PERSIAN PAINTING-33

painting by hedieh javanshir ilchi

WE SEARCHED FOR THE SUN
CLOUDS ARE TORN APART
FROM TORN PIECES OF PARADISE

SILENTLYخموشانه

It is not silence
who writes poetry
in silence.
It is poetry
who writes
silently.

see more:
http://www.khamushaneh.blogspot.com/

THE ULTIMATE POETRY OF THE ULTIMATE

IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IF ACCEPTED,
Words but works are the worst interventionists
One invents oneself's dream
to drum reality
and words intervene.
WORDS BY WORDS
it is all about life.
If you mean it
you mean it and I write poetry for the ones
who understand the meaning
as there are no meanings.
WORDS BY WORDS
Each time
a new look on philosophy
makes us to think more
and I write the poetry
for the ones who think
as there are no thinkings.
How much we do not know
that should keep reading?
We the P readers
We the E readers
We the D readers.
There is no limit to fence jumping.
'cause there is no fence to jump.
Life flows in flowing
If you don't flow
You don't flow.
Life flows in flowers.
And the more you read
the more you get insane in pieces.
If you are not in piece with yourself
you are not
in piece with yourself.
WORDS BY WORDS
Dream goes on
Drum goes on
Drem on
in ultimate poetry
to drum on
your dream.
in search of no meanings
Dremdrum on!

SEVEN HALO OF BAHMAN FROM EMPTY FRAME

A SOAKED PINE
IN HALO OF THE PARK
SOMEONE WENT TO WALK IN STORM

CURLY WHITE MOZART

In curly white
finally the storm arrived
and weathervanes looking down the road
found how white is the wind
whiter the window
and the whirlwind
in the moment of silence.
I sit at the window
in daybreak
to watch
the travellers of everyday
sitting in storm
listening to salty son of Salzburg.
Storm here in hexagons
and waves
Storm there
Storm is the name of everwhere
filing the first fat flurries.
And human heritage crystalizes
in Mozart and winterstorm
he brought and left ,
-VIRGINIA SNOSTORM 2011

A HALO OF WINDOW

A HALO OF CURTAIN  PEEKING THROUGH THE WINDOW
A WINDOW OF CURTAIN
A WINDOWY CURTAIN

CORSI

roses come to halo of heart

all heart a rose

a sea of heart

;;;;;

SEVEN HALO OF BAHMAN -XTERRA

*hibiscus@nightgarden
MARSH MALLOW
IN YOUR AFRO
HIBISCUS AT NIGHT GARDEN

SEVEN HALO OF BAHMAN-EPILOGUE of BEGINNINGS! #1

From the corner of her eyes
Looking at halo of the world
Who is looking at halo of her world

SOLEY

SOLEIMAN VASEGHI
b.5 BAHMAN 1325/25 JANUARY 1947,TEHRAN
WHEN I WAS INVITED TO WORK WITH MY FRIENDS SOLEY AND JAMSHID BASTANI FOR A CONCERT IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA, IN 1995,I DID NOT HESITATE TO JOIN THEM,BECAUSE I CONSIDERED BOTH AS IRANIAN INTELLECTUALS INVOLVED IN ART.
SOLEY IS BORN A SUFI,AS HE WAS BORN IN A SUFI FAMILY.HIS WORKS ARE OUR WITNESSES IN THIS CLAIM,AS THEY ARE INFLUENCED BY POETS AND MYSTICS SUCH AS RUMI,HAFEZ,RUDAKI AND SEPEHRI.,they are listed:
VAGHEE/INCIDENT
AB/WATER
RANGIN KAMAN/RAINBOW
SOLEY ,WHO LIVES IN TORONTO,CANADA.IS NOW MORE INVOLVED IN PERFORMING GHOL AND GHAVALI,AN OLD TRADITION OF RECITAL AND SONGS,ACCOMPANIED WITH MYSTIC MUSIC.
WITH MY OTHER FRIEND AND A MUSIC MASTER,NADER MAJD ,AND  also Nima Majd,
IN DIFFERENT EXPERIENCEs we CALLED IT :AVA AND NAVA,AND performed and PUBLISHED A CD ,titled:
AZ NIMA VA DARYA/FROM NIMA AND THE SEA,
MOJ BOOK,WASHINGTON,D.C.,1995.
darya beh lahjehye nima mikhanad
darya kenar sahat-e sangin-e shab ast
darya beh lahjehye nima mikhanad/
the sea  sings nima's accent
the seashore is heavy realm of the night
the sea
sings
nima's accent
-F.S.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOLEY!

:
Major Persian Musicians: Soley(Soleyman Vasseghi),Jamshid Bastani,Nader Majd and Nima Majd

HAIKU HALO OF BAHMAN-5

QUINCE AND STARLING:

KNOTS IN KNOTS OF QUINCE
HALO OF QUEEN
TIME OF BRANCHES AND STARLING

Panjom Bahman,Forbidden Mar

INK ORCHID/PRELUDE

ETCHED ON THE ROCK
BY AGE OLD DARK INK
ROCK ON THE RUN

AND BLACK NIGHTSHADE CAME TO COLOR
COLOR COLOR FOREVER OF BAHMAN

MODI ANNA,AND ABSINTH

amadeo clemente modigliani's anna akhmatova nude,pen and pencil drawing,1911

Half reclining
Half in naked arms
Modi in monmartre

*AMEDEO MODIGLIANI,Italian painter artist and poet of form
b.1884 Leghorn
d.January 24,1920 (also:1/25?)in Livorno,at age 36 with tuberculosis
MODI,nickname of the artiste converted and used in:
ARTISTES MAUDITES/cursed artists
to convey artists of monmartre and Monparnasse.

Aren't we all artistes maudites?!

SECRET AT OPEN GATE-6

                                                 Painting by Zohreh Khaleghi

Closed legs
With heart pounding inside
Peacock feather at the door.
+
TRUE FEATHERS:
Patches,scales,tattoos or feathers
Just write it out
On my skin

Sheshom Bahman-light feather
Yush+

SILENT SCENTED GERANIUM-7

SILENT SCENTED GERANIUM
ON SILENT ROCK
WINTERY LICHEN
+
Dreamz of my Teenz:
A halo night
in the valleys of cherry hills
where red valley tightly embraced
the hills of cherry.
A hallo night of surprise

SEVEN HALO OF BAHMAN-4

turner's sea



Parted way from the port by a string
Seduced by waves of water world
Dancing with the sea
+
CORNER OF WINTER
PEACOCK FOR LOST SUMMERS
THE DAY OF PAY AT SIGHT
+
Vnus maeching to
Far pyramid
Mars in revolt
+
I picked the star on the ledge
Wind came
And took window away

Chaharom Bahman-Star