LOS ANGELESEE-12,HaikuEast

                                                      Painting By Zohreh Khaleghi

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*LOS ANGELESSEE
(Silent Z...)

# 34
Silent rose and maple tree
Flamy sparrow
Playing silent rose and maple tree.

LOS ANGELESEE-11

* LOS ANGELESSEE
(wave whirling in rose...)

Wave whirling in rose
Rose revolving in wind
A wave of wind
In the red wave
Of rose
And ashes.

MOONSHINE/MAHTAB

Modified 4.30.2010
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Moonshine!
O companion of lovers
O light of the sky
O moonshine
O lamp of the sky
Brightener of the world
Lips on lips together
We were together and lonely
On the passage way
Fascinated and frentic
Immersed in watching.

Moonshine!
Tonight that I am with you
She's gone and the world passed
I run to mountain and plain
To forget that she's gone
With you so many nights
We were there
Free of the world
Lips on lips together
We were together and lonely
Fascinated and frentic
Immersed in watching

Faramarz Soleimani says:
I heard this song with performance and lyrics of an unknown Iranian-Armenian singer,named Vigen in Cafe Shemiran ,Khiaban Ferdosi@Estambol ,with my friend and track and field coach: Mahmud Khaligh Razavi,who happened to be a drummer,as well.He was the most decorated champion of Asia too in 1958 Asian Games of Tokyo,Japan.Vigen ,a guitar player and drummer took this song to Motel Ghu of Noshahr,mazandaran in the summer of 1337/1958,and then to Radio Tehran on friday morning show.Eventually the very same Vigen became the king of the jazz in Iran.This spring,in the company of Mahtab an Rasul Sadighian and friends,we played the song after more than 50 years of its original performance ,and to the memmory of Vigen.We danced and jubilated in oblivion.
Thanks to Mahtab,Rasul,Ida,siamak,Nassim Babak,Haleh ,the Dorudis and other friends and families.
Next time we're going to sing it along in Farsi,English,and dance it through the night,with vigen,Nasser Rastgarnejad,the poet and in memory of Karo,Vigen's brother ,who offered us his poems ,in his book:"Breaking the Silence",in school and in our heart during our lifetime...
This is how the translation of MAHTAB happened and posted in here.

SUNSET WITH A FUGITIVE BIRD

-CONTINUOUS HAIKU-
for MANSOUR KHAKSAR
A desert and a thousand roads between us
I drove the troubled Atlas
to your tranquil sea
a night of star became lingering night of star
and frentic

LOS ANGELESEE-10

*Zzzzz...
.....
Ashes are scattering in the sea

LOS ANGELESEE-9

*LOS ANGELESEE
(Always a distance...)
for MANSOUR KHAKSAR
Always a distance sitting between you and I
Distance of love
In distance
Of love

I brought green
Green of patchwork
A young green.

Always a green distance
Between you and I
Distance of green
In distance
Of green
Ash clad.

I am checkmate
Tress of white won
With a queen.
It was too much to take on.a match

Sat 4.24.10

I SIT IN THE SORROW

                                                          By Zohreh Khaleghi
I sit in the sorrow
On a cold iron chair
With a vine scrawling on it
From the sign of the sun

When the sun pours on my head
I give the chair away to that vine
And the shadow
Becomes my refuge.
TEHRAN 1369
Tr;by poet