Poems of Hamid NazarkhahAlisaraei (Iran)

Bio: 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.

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 )

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, Bosnian and English languages.



Friend

(1)

Friend!
At the foot of the gallows,
I weave my patience,
And at night,
I weep for the dance
Of the blood of wounded fish.

(2)

I sit watching the raspberry fields
In a white shirt...
My bloody hands
Become poems without dots
At the foot of my coffin.

(3)

At night,
I bury the bodies of unidentified words
In my chest.
A silent scream
Sighs
For my sorrow.

(4)

My body smells of damp gunpowder.
Beneath the laughter after the death of the sun,
I saw the booted words
Beneath the invisible rains,
How they trample
My beliefs.

(5)

Red, red,
Like pomegranate seeds,
Flowing through the heart of the roads...
And the poems dressed in black
In the sorrow of the bodies...
I see no flag in my hand.
I recite Al-Fatiha
At my own grave.

(6)

With my mother's tears,
The cold, dark words
Sprout
At the end
Of my last breaths.

(7)

My dreams are the narration of history,
Where the homeland of my poems
Became one body from thousands of bodies...
Death sings
The song of my poem
In the ear of the street.

(8)

Tell my mother:
There is no longer any need to sew a shroud.
I love these second-hand clothes.
When you turn the pages of my poetry book,
You will see my footprints,
Still breathing
In search of peace.

(9)

For peace,
I hold neither an olive branch
Nor a white cloth...
Neither was my father a politician,
Nor was my mother an ambassador of peace.
My childhood
Is in search of freedom.

®®Hamid Nazarkhah Alisaraei (Adonis Dodestani) – Iran