The Iran Negotiations, a Dreamed Poem
Iran speaks through musaddas,
six-line poems in Farsi script writ
right
to
left
giant postage stamps pasted
in a tableau, two to a row,
laid out like tarot stone
tablets from Mt. Sinai, each
nearly identical to the other
to my eye
but
I can’t read the language &
Englishmen don’t understand
Musaddas writ in black on white
hard as Hammurabi’s diorite
held, by faith, impervious to bombs
Bargaining not transactional
more revelation or judgment
how the Prophet did back in the day
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the rhyme “Musaddas writ in black on white/ hard as Hammurabi’s diorite” gets at how we’re not speaking the same language
Mike !!
Oh so yesingly yes.
The flight, just correct.
” right
to
left”
and just so well walked
down the page. ” but
back in the day.”
Landed.
❤️
Mike, Thanks for introducing me to masaddas. Interesting! Also giving a poetic eye into an area of the world hard for us to thoroughly understand. Great write!
I, too, am new to masaddas and appreciate the teaching.
Love how you show the break in understanding:
” to my eye
but
Wonderful visual layout. It and the imagery of ancient artifacts creates a fantastic “dreamed poem.”
It was a vivid dream with almost no action. I tried to count the lhe lines in each tablet and then, after I woke up, did research on Islamic and Persian poetry, from which I inferred that the form was a musadda (which I knew nothing about prior to the research).
Thanks everyone for your comments