
(High) He was high— higher than the rock he was standing on, close to the sun: flying like a phantom for the freedom which was
Martin Foroz (Mohammad Forouzani) was born on the 30th of December 1964 in Tehran, Iran. He holds BA and MA degrees in English Literature and a Ph.D. degree in TEFL. He has been working as assistant professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Nizwa, Oman, since 2014.In the past 19 years, he has been teaching and supervising theses in both fields, but his literary and philosophical bends formed his poetic sense much earlier- at the beginning of secondary school. He insatiably read Persian Literature (his first language) and wrote poems and pieces of prose since he was in high school. His first collection of Persian poems under the title Khaste-tar az zaman (More Tired Than Time) was published in 1997 when he was a Lecturer of English.
(High) He was high— higher than the rock he was standing on, close to the sun: flying like a phantom for the freedom which was
If the spell is broken, there remains no genuine life; Machines and robots rule in rife; No hands to reach the sky, No moon in
Bloody clouds reflecting the sunlight like condensed sort of some red wine— gave a different color to the road of life. The violent violate plants
A god nearby listening to our guitar, A loaf of bread with glasses of red wine, A book written in Latin left from Romans, A
Once in my life, your life was better than mine. It was when you held my eyes in your frozen heart; You could see me
Early in the morning, yet outside dark, At my desk, brooding on my life, Coffee tasted too bitter but still hot, I had my usual
The tentacular roots in my existence— somewhere between “to be or not to be”— were reaching down the abyss of unfulfilled desires; There, ME
Seeing myself put in a grave– being alone under the ground, dark, no sound, no music loud, I remembered a poem by Mary Frye “Do
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