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5 Moon Poems by Fereshteh Sholevar

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5 Moon Poems

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The half-drunken moon
Stumbles into its sober half
And becomes full.

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I’m sitting in front of
A hallucinating moon
With both hands carrying a heavy pain
Which in vain
I try to let go.

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He smiles at me
With a piece of ocean in his eyes
While the shimmering moon passes
Through the apple trees.

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Ripples of moon
Over the cedar tree
The orphan duckling
Squeals along the stream.

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The old wolf lays down to cross over
The hunter moon creeps into his sleep
Faintly, he howls in his dream.

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Author’s Statement:

I was born and raised under a sky covered with silver stars, and a huge, bright full moon almost all year round. I’ve been obsessed with it since my childhood. In my culture, the moon is the symbol of beauty, passion, and love. It makes me feel romantic, melancholic, curious, and inspired. I think a poet without the moon is like a bird without wings. A song without music! A bilingual collection of my poems in German-English is called: Walking With The Moon. (1997) Every poet should write about the moon in a creative way. But apart from the aspect of poetically important, scientifically, the moon plays a big role on our Planet Earth:

“The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet’s wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. It also causes tides, creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years.” (Source: Google)

~ Fereshteh Sholevar

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Fereshteh Sholevar, the Iranian-American poet and writer, immigrated to Germany in 1978 and later to USA in 1990. She received her Master’s degree in Creative writing at the University of Iowa and Rosemont College, Pa. She writes in four languages and has authored 6 books of poetry, a novel, and a children’s book. She has won awards in Philadelphia Poets and Pa Poetry Society. Her new bilingual poetry book (English-French) is available on Amazon: Of Dust And Chocolate.

Through Light Darkly by Fereshteh Sholevar

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On the street, when summer was kindly green
The white doves flew over us and offered peace.
The sweet lyrics of summer called for lavish meadows.
Then, you and I took a stroll. You looked like a star at dawn
as if you had squeezed darkness in your fist.

Let me confide in you:
most people are dying in their own particular way,
birds’ wings have been clipped together,
the ghosts of cockroaches are following us,
old ladies have wept all their tears and prayed all their prayers.
The blinded eyes can’t see the fading color of the earth.
Tyrants rule, fools bow, and graves of innocents have become
a sight-seeing attraction.
Sobbing children play with bones
and dogs live no more,
forests are images in storybooks.

We were crestfallen!
Then we saw a basket of blue lights
hanging from the eyes of the moon
and we tasted the moonlight.
We slept in indulgence
and woke up in vigilance.
No more nightmares on the truth of the day.
At that moment the sun came up
and brought us a bouquet of pure light.

 

 

Fereshteh Sholevar, the Iranian born poet and writer, immigrated to Germany and later to USA in 1978. She received her Master’s degree in Creative writing at the University of Iowa and Rosemont College, Pa.  She writes in four languages and has authored 6 books of poetry (two of which are bilingual: English-German and English-Spanish), a novel, and a children’s book. She won two awards from Philadelphia Poets, Pa Poetry Society second prize in 2004, and three awards in 2019. Her new bilingual poetry book (English-French) is available on Amazon: Of Dust And Chocolate.