Twenty two years
is no age to die
but it is the age
to be killed……
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Excellent poetic style. Great theme narrated in simple words. Brilliant.
Thank You, dear poet, for your time to read the poem and share your thoughts on it. And more, for the kind words of appreciation. Obliged.
I'm so sorry to hear such can happen! .. How horrid and heartbreaking! .. So heart movingly expressed! ..+++++++++++++++++++++++
Hi Becca, I am so happy that I have been able to invoke such noble feelings in you. Thank You
Thank You, Sandra and Mamata for your posts here. I had posted replies to them. But they have been missing.
(B) and transferred her body to her father's hometown of Khorramabad. But security forces 'stole' Nika's body from Khorramabad and buried it in the village of Veysian.
(A) Nika Shakarami, an Iranian protester, went missing for 10 days after protesting in Tehran on 20 September. On the 02 October, Nika's family finally found her body in a morgue at a detention centre in the capital Teheran (Contd)
Oh wow! I got stunned reading the poem and the background below it. Great job!
Let us unite in the call of the Iranian women and girls "Death To The Dictator…
BBC reports today the the House Speaker of Iran was booed and heckled in public by school girls. The protests are going on, in spite of the efforts of the Fanatic Fascist government's vow to use iron hand to quell them
The number of persons, mostly women, who lost their lives in the atrocities of Iranian Police to quell and subdue the protests, has now crossed 300. The protest spreads all over the world
We see that the seeds sown by the soul of Mahsa sprout into another Arab Spring. Let its fragrance demolish the blind mountains of bad omens
Protests calling for "Death to the Dictator" is raging across Iran. Another Arab Spring, and Mahsa Amini, the First Red Rose that ushered it in!
The hijab has now become the shackles or a tightening noose?
"Ramesh T A added a poem titled Hijab to his/her favorites." Thank You, Sir
The Hijab, now, falls on her life. No longer!
Yes,22 is not the age to die. It touches my heart as an Iranian girl.
The headdress is the symbol of oppression today. In my childhood and through my student days, my classmates of Islamic faith used to wear headdress and the girls in it looked so beautiful. Not any longer