Fishes by Hamid Nazarkhah

 

Fishes

Fishes, 

Fantastic autumn nights, 

Under the electvic posts of the city, 

In the thick fog of the evening ,

Celebrate. 

Street pavements, 

They breathe the footsteps of passers-by, 

The longest night of the year, 

With red seeds of words, 

They decorate, 

But I share the my dream of watermelon dream among the poor people, 

To have a happy Yalda. 

Biography

Hamid NazarkhahAlisaraei (Adonis Dodestani), poet, writer, storyteller, journalist, popular culture researcher, was born in 1978 in Kuchesfahan city. After obtaining a diploma in the field of cultural affairs management, he succeeded in obtaining a bachelor's degree.

Nazarkhah is currently studying for a master's degree in Iranology with a specialization in Iranology of people's culture, customs and cultural heritage as a student at Gilan University.

He was a member of the founding committee and responsible for Kochesfahan poetry and literature association from 2002 to 2007. He is also the founder and head of the "Kochesfahan" group from 2011 to the present day. Nazarkhah has officially started his press activity since 2005 with local newspapers in northern Iran, Gilan. During his student days, he printed and published the magazine “Bloom” in both Gilaki and persian languages as the license and responsible manager. He is now the head of Gil Kochesfahan Institute of Culture.

Nazarkhah published his first poetry book in 2018 in Gilaki language with Persian translation under the title “Wind Lullaby” by Gil and Dilam publishing houses.

In 2021, Nazarkhah was the organizer and secretary of the first edition of the National Short Story Festival (Alisaraei Award) in both free and special sections with the topic of Coronavirus (Covid 2019).

The head of the jury of the second international competition "Literary Asia" of Kazakhstan and Egypt in Iran in 2023

Winner of the "Lucius Aeneus Seneca" international contemporary literature prize from the Academy of Philosophical Arts and Sciences in Italy in 2023

Received the national award and certificate of honor from the "Tokyo Mengua Literary Ceremony" from the "Chinese Literature Magazine" in 2023

Honorary member of the International Academy of Ethics in India under the chairmanship of Dr. Jarnail Singh Anand in 2023

 

Receiving the diploma of honor and gold medal of Sultan Babyars in the international literary competition "Literary Asia 2023" in Kazakhstan by Bakhit Rostamov, the head of the second international competition of Literary Asia Kazakhstan

Member of BRICS Cultural Council (culture and tradition of BRICS countries) in 2024

The head of the jury (Persian and Gilaki language section) of the third international competition "Literary Asia 2024" Kazakhstan in Iran

Secretary of the Scientific Association of Iranian Studies of Gilan University ( 2024 )

Secretary of the Varna Iranian Studies Center, Jihad Daneshgahi, Guilan 2024

His poems and writings are printed and published in written and electronic publications in Iran and other countries in Gilaki, Persian, Albanian, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Spanish​, Russian, Serbian,Arabic,Bengali, Armenian, Bosnian and English languages.

Prepared by Angela Kosta Executive Director of the Magazines: MIRIADE, NUANCES ON THE PANORAMIC CANVAS, BRIDGES OF LITERATURE, journalist, poet, essayist, publisher, literary critic, editor, translator, promoter

 

 

Stained with Flower Colors by Si Rim Kim

 

Stained with Flower Colors

 

As the brisk wind blows,

I long for you even more.

 

The foxtails,

Densely covering the hill,

All rush toward the western sky.

 

The sunset blankets the ridgein the fading hues of fire,

And every window in every home

Is stained with flower colors,

 

With no promise made,

I leave the gate wide open

And step out to greet you—

You,

Whom I can neither see nor touch.

 

꽃물 들다

 

샛바람 부니

  당신이 더욱 보고 싶다

 

 언덕을 빼곡히 덮은

  강아지풀들 일제히

  서녘 하늘 향해 달리고

 

  석양 마루 잉걸불로 타는

  노을, 집집 창문마다

  꽃물이 든다

 

  약속도 없이

  대문 활짝 열어두고

  볼 수도 만질 수도 없는

  당신

  마중 나간다.

 

Poet Ms. Si Rim Kim was born in 1965 in Haenam, Jeollanam-do. She graduated from the Department of Creative Writing at the Graduate School of Culture and Arts at Dongguk University. She received the Newcomer Award from the literary magazine Korean Literature and Arts in 1991 and another Newcomer Award from Buddhist Literature in 2012.

Her poetry collections include The Mugwort-Scented Seashore ofThe Honey Crabof My Name, The Woman Who Rides a Bicycle with Longing, The Shy Sweetbrier, and Webbed Feet Emerging.

She was awarded the Simho Lee Dong-Ju Literary Prize and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Buddhist Literature.

Your Beauty by Lulzim Hajdari

 

Your Beauty

 

When you close your eyes, think only of me,  

For I will come in dreams to tell you I love you,  

When your body is laid on the bed,  

In your nightgown, unbuttoned without guilt,  

I will gently touch you, not to wake you from sleep,  

From the burning embers, I will blaze all!

 

And I will come out easily, like the leaves of autumn,  

And I will go to the river, right to the mountain's water,  

When you hear tomorrow that the waterfall has taken me,  

Do not worry at all, do not cry for me,  

I do not want tears in your eyes, nor any moans,  

Your beauty has shattered my heart!

NOW I AM CONVINCED OF MANY THINGS!

 

 

Now I am convinced of many things,  

That gratitude goes beyond paradise,  

It circles and wraps and takes it as a reward  

Like a tie wrapped around the neck,

 

But I am also convinced about the ungrateful ones,  

No matter how thick their necks may be,  

The tie will thin and thin so much,  

Until the last breathe to hell.

 

I am convinced of many, many things,  

About paradise and hell that we forget,  

But for one thing, I wait, for a sign from the great God,  

So that the afterlife I want to know if it exists!

 

Lulzim Hajdari was born in the village of Kukës - Albania, where he completed his primary and secondary education and later pursued studies in law. He has been the secretary of the Writers' and Artists' Association in the Kukës branch for 15 years. He has received several national and international awards and has published his works in dozens of anthologies. He has also written several genuine analyses and critiques of his published works.

Publications:

”Vajza që trazoi jetën time” (The Girl Who Disturbed My Life) - Novel

” Sytë mashtrues” (Deceptive Eyes) - Novel

”Dëshmia e hënës” (The Testimony of the Moon) - Novel

”Rikthim në jetë” (Return to Life) - Novel

”Lisjani” (Lisjani) - Novel

”Në letrën e fundit” (In the Last Letter) - Poetry

For Children:

”Djali me yll dhe vajza me hënë” (The Boy with the Star and the Girl

with the Moon) - Fairy Tale

”Zogu që sfidoi merimangën gigande” (The Bird That Challenged the

Giant Spider) - Fairy Tale.

Prepared by Angela Kosta Executive Director of the Magazines: MIRIADE, NUANCES ON THE PANORAMIC CANVAS, BRIDGES OF LITERATURE, journalist, poet, essayist, publisher, literary critic, editor, translator, promoter

Blue Butterfly by Im Sol Nae

 

Blue Butterfly

 

"The sky and the earth are my coffin, and the sun, moon, and stars are my burial gifts"

Zhuangzi once said.

I envied him.

I envied the silkworm.

That sheds its stiff cocoon of flesh.

To become a butterfly of the soul,

 

I envied Kübler-Ross,★

Who cared for dying children?

Carrying a plush caterpillar that, when flipped,

Transformed into a butterfly,

A small miracle for her young patients,

 

But what moved me even more

Was the final moment of her own funeral—

Her children opening a small box before the coffin,

Releasing butterflies into the air.

 

And when the mourners opened their envelopes,

Blue butterflies fluttered out,

Rising toward the sky,

 

What are we to do with such beauty?

 

★ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Swiss-born psychiatrist and world-renowned authority on thanatology (the study of death and dying).

 

 

파란나비

 

 

“하늘과 땅이 관이고 해, 달, 별이

나의 순장품이다” 라던 장자가

나는 부러웠습니다

그 딱딱한 육신의 고치를 벗고

영혼의 나비가 되는 누에가

나는 참 부러웠습니다.

 

임종을 앞 둔 어린이들을 돌 본

퀴블러 로스★

뒤집으면 나비로 변하는 애벌레 인형을

가지고 다니며 어린 환자들에게 보여 주던

그가

나는 참말 부러웠습니다.

 

더 기막힌 것은,

자신의 장례식의 절정을

그의 자녀가 관 앞에서 작은 상자를 열어

나비가 날아가게 한 것

조문객들이 미리 받은 봉투를 열자

봉투에서파란나비가 나와

공중으로 날아 갔대잖아요

 

이 일을 어쩌면 좋아요

 

 

★「퀴블러 로스」 스위스 태생의 정신과 의사, 생사학의 세계적인 권

Biography

Poet Ms. Im Sol Nae received the Newcomer Award from the monthly literary magazine JayuMunhak in 1999. Her poetry collections include The QR Code of a Leaf, Amazon, That Transit Station, The Cry of an Awakened Amazon, Hong Nyeo, and many others. She has also received numerous literary honors, including the Yeongnang Poetry Award, the Korean Literary Critics Association Award, the Korean Lyric Poetry Award, selection as a Sejong Excellent Book, the Poet’s Poet Award, and the Buddhist Literary Writers’ Award.

Prepared by Angela Kosta Executive Director of the Magazines: MIRIADE, NUANCES ON THE PANORAMIC CANVAS, BRIDGES OF LITERATURE, journalist, poet, essayist, publisher, literary critic, editor, translator, promoter