MOHAMMAD NOURI (1308-1389)

mohammad nouri,a major persian musician.
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MOHAMMAD NOURI
b.Tehran 1308-
d.9 Mordad 1389/31 July 2010,Tehran

He sings
the word
with all his heart
When his body is a song
grows
in the cradle of his throat
F.S.,FROM SPRING THROAT,No 4

When he came to visit,I never asked him to sing.I just played a tape of his songs and he would sit and listen in silence.Once in a retirement party of our poet friend,the late Abbas Sadeghi Pedram,he started singing at no request,and there is a famous story that some rocks busted with his bariton voice and showered the people in that party.The samething happened in Maryam and Ali Dehbashi's wedding party,when bottles and glasses shattered with Nouri's warm voice heard from the other room.
He was very popular between people of different ages and genders and especially became more popular when performed Nima's poems with Fariborz Lachini's music and Ahmad Reza Ahmadi's recital,called dar shab-e sard-e zemesatani / in a cold winter night.
Mohammad Nouri left us,but he left us a treasure of his memorable songs and music.

An incantation with his dreams
an incantation
in  quavering of his throat
a twist
to his look
a cry
on his fingertips
a dizziness of his dreams
the garden
is laying
on his spring throat

F.S., FROM SPRING THROAT,No.6

EMBRYO

Embryo
Much of the river of heart
By embroidery in a
River of heart
You
Occur in

I HAVE A Q

frida kahlo and diego rivera

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I have a Q:
why when Diego Rivera
was enjoying the other
women's company,
Frida Kahlo was bleeding
of  jalousey?

O Larry King,
my good neighbor of
Hackensack,New Jersey,1969
Are you still awake
to sing the song of
It 's Impossible,
or I go ask Carole King
and James Taylor,
my very impossible Q?

ON THE MOVE

On the move I found you
Ah,on the viscous move
a shell of a lot
of lost and found

HENRY MOORE GOES TO WASHINGTON*

You rush in
and pull out
with no prevention
in your idee fixe.
You're on loan.
You arrive
without arrival.
You're hiding
in dull shadows
of a bronze kiss
and you leave
in abscence.
How many times
huh?!
how
many
times
of you
of you of you,
In the in and out
of Washington,
in
and
out?!
and still wandering in angst.

*HENRY MOORE,THE BRITISH SCULPTOR
b.July 30,1898,Castleford,Yorkshire,England
d. 31 August 1986
See More of Moore:
my essay in farsi/persian,
Simorgh of Los Angeles,on the occasion of his retrospective in NGA
Moore believed in "direct carving and truth to materials"His direct experiences with war,made a war artist out of him ,drawing suffering of dismembered humankind ,in an unhealed  deep pain by humankind.
Henry Moore,like any other pure artist,was always wondering that who invented war,and who is going to stop this bloodshed ,someday in history.Family,maternity,women  and children ,and love were other subject occupations of his mind and  took him with his art,back to primitive era  of the man's life  in history,and provided tools for his artistic expressions.

with Henry Moore's reclining woman in two pieces,after shower ,
outside Hirshhorn Museum scupture garden,Washington,D.C.
image by: moj book
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HOW YOU SPELL IT WHEN BROKEN ?

sculpture by:bahman mohassess,persian artist,translator and stage director (rasht,iran,1932-2010,rome italy)
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How you spell it
when broken?
You're insisting
on bridges
but don't know
how to spell it.
When I honk
or blow in the old reed flute
you're not even
on bridges
yet
you're sullied
before being sacred.
Each time I open
the paper
on time
your shade is standing white
or grey
on the way.
you traitor shade
you of
traitor
shade.
*
You and I
are competing
for a perspective.
How many times
you and I
are competing for
a perspective
and are lost
in purposes
and cause,
and not found?
Let's spell it
when broken
in your hand.

After words talk in silence
I word you
I talk you
I silence you
After
you!

Or whatever...

ART MACABRE

برای خروس جنگی تلخ : بهمن محصص   *for THE BITTER KHORUS JANGI :

BAHMAN MOHASSESS,a Major Persian Artist
(b. Rasht,Iran,9 Esfand 1310-d.6 Mordad 1389,Rome,Italy/1932-2010)
...
Writing grey
digging digital
in the deep of the night
when all the dead
unsatiably
make love
before a river runs
by their dancing saliva