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First at the Line
Hidden Tongue

Sometimes words act as expert magicians. When they hold an ordinary picture in front of your eyes and make you see a wholly different image. This is eccentric, but you fail to accuse the words of lying. They are all the same as you knew them before. So, where is the difference? What does it emanate from? Perhaps the writer’s will has changed!


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Literary Article
What could a rose be?!


In literature a symbol is applied only to a word or phrase that signifies an object or event which in its turn signifies some thing or has a range of reference, beyond it. Some symbols are “conventional” or “public”. Poets use conventional symbols; however also use “private” or “personal...
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Rendition
Moon’s Solitude

 

Along by the darkness
Crickets yelled
“Moon, hey great moon…”
Along by the darkness
Sprouts with their such long arms
The arms that let out their sigh so much as ...
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Animal Farm


Animal Farm written as a "Fairy Story" by an English writer, George Orwell,   
is the narration of violent political revolution of farm animals against the farmer who owns all. The characters in this story, in disguise of animals, were inspired by Russian revolution and each symbolizes an...
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I Tried to Build us a Door


I drew with the tip of my lead pencil on the cement—
     A line to separate myself from the world.
I drew a line to separate myself from the breeze and freeze that raped trees of their leaves.

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I drew with the tip of my lead pencil on the cement—
     A line to separate myself from the world.
I drew a line to separate myself from the breeze and freeze that raped trees of their leaves.

I drew a line to separate myself from hands that hold necks,
Strong enough as if desiring their fingers to bleed,
Seeping into the skin lying below the chin—
Making them one,
Blending the line that discerns the nail from the bone.

I drew a line—
A barricade that protected our smiles,
An ocean that stretched far enough to lose us in the horizon,
A jungle as a labyrinth twisting their path toward us.

I drew a line, and reached out for your hand to bring you across.
You reached out your hand to bring him across.
 
I drew a line,
And regardless of how my knees bled
Grinding into the cement
Keeping me strong,

And regardless of how my knuckles throbbed holding the lead tight,
Regardless of every solid power in my breath that pushed that line
Embedding it into the elements that composed the cement
Pushing against our feet.…

I forgot that the clouds above are far too high for our embrace
To calm their tears,

And as they shared their sorrow with our own,
They washed away the doorway to our home.



Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh


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