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Mar 2011 · 404
Broken up!
Reza Mahani Mar 2011
I need to call H.
and remind him
of our holding hands
on the way back from school
and the love
that burnt us slowly
I need to find his number
before those memories
die, forever
Monday, February 28, 2011
Feb 2011 · 559
Lost
Reza Mahani Feb 2011
Sunday morning
Downtown Atlanta
Empty streets
Hesitant steps
Expressionless windows

Does anyone see
what I am carrying around?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Feb 2011 · 652
Contact
Reza Mahani Feb 2011
Yesterday morning,
around 11,
I was writing,
behind my office computer.

When in the middle of a sentence,
a dream started,
that last less than a second.
And someone hit my shoulder
quite gently,
yet enough to startle me.

I looked around,
no one was touching me.
My research assistant,
was staring at me,
with amusement and surprise.
and I just said,
''that was strange,
really strange.''
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Feb 2011 · 863
Tao of Crane and Turtle
Reza Mahani Feb 2011
She, resting on one leg
maybe
watching him

He, lying on grass
alive?
Could be dead

Breeze, waiving water
searching
bamboos and canes

They, doing nothing
are,
hours and hours
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Jan 2011 · 927
Watch
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
Wanted to see me suffer?
Or don't you care anymore?
Now be a witness
Have you seen a heart unfold?
It first breaks
and after a few drinks,
it starts disintegrating
and covers miles and miles
You smoke a cigarette
and feel the void
where it used to be your heart
only a void
that nothing in the world
can fill
Sunday, January 30, 2011

"Its weird, you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just one more second, just so it can hurt a little more."
Jan 2011 · 934
Mato (Target)
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
Here is my lady
naked
with an inviting chest

From the corner of my eye
I watch her
a seductive whisper: hit me

Shaking hands
heavy breathing
aching muscles expanding

All gets quiet
the moment of truth
tension flies, screaming

Arrow pierce her heart
and I thank her
and ask forgiveness
Friday, January 28, 2011

Last night, my Kyudo Sesnei asked me how I see the target. He sees them as cute playful bunnies. I could not answer, I just knew something seductive and  inviting in the target. Today in the morning, I visioned a women with naked chest and friendly face. I was looking at the middle of her *******, non-sexually, and there was something there that confused me. After a while, I realized that is the way I see the target, an inviting lady friends who offered her heart to me, open and selfless, and I am being appreciative. I wrote this poem!
Jan 2011 · 430
Turn Your Head or Don't
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
You know that
in a day or two
--in several days,
if I am lucky--
everything will change
I won't email you,
won't talk to you,
I won't be able
to even look at you

So easy colors change
living with depression ...
Friday, January 14, 2011
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
Time is elastic
like the ball
we used to play with
when we were kids
and the small, rooftop room
in grandma's house
filled with dusted magazines
and we would spend hours
if not days
reading them
watching their pictures
living their characters lives
and forgetting everything else
because time
is elastic
after all
Friday, January 14, 2011
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
The secret, a sprout deep under ice
Unveils sunshine, cold winter gusts

and last kiss, I feel, sparks in your eyes

Silence of the meadow grows up my feet
Prevails stillness, fading steps, our last waltz
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Inspired by an old Persian poem:

Whom are instructed divine secrets
Their lips are sealed and are sewed, forever
Jan 2011 · 636
Wolves
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
Night is descending
Something moves among trees
humming, hissing, and howling
just like an angry beast

Finds my demons
circling around me
eyes impatient
waiting for their feast

A moment of weakness
and they attack me
tear me apart
salty sweat and blood mist
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Jan 2011 · 511
2046
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
Summer of 2010
I was enticed to leave
She started a new journey
and me ... She left behind

I felt extremely lonely
I begged
all friends, even her
for company

Part of me knows
what is happening
maybe even
where I am going

Part of me asks,
what if
there are no friends
for a journey in dreams?
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Jan 2011 · 794
Peace and Void
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
A lazy Saturday afternoon
sitting on the couch
feet on the ottoman
listening carelessly to lady friends
watching her preparing tea
snow flakes quiet dance

Something broke

Heard it the next morning
felt it, in my soul
and insatiable need to cry
Monday, December 27, 2010
Jan 2011 · 505
Midnight
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
When everything is blurred
faces unrecognizable
and you do not know
whom you love
anymore
write a poem
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Jan 2011 · 697
Deprived
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
Oh, my sweetest dreams
do not, ever,
tell me
your worst fears,
or darkest nightmares

Did I,
Could I
appreciate
the purity
of your
tender souls ...
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Jan 2011 · 458
With You and Without You
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
I close my eyes
and see myself
at your door
asking
if you fancy a beer

Kitchen is to the right
as I imagined

I sit by a small table
and watch your grace
moving around

A sip of beer ...
I close my eyes
feel your trace
and breathe you in
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Jan 2011 · 760
Mirage
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
You are a tiny shadow
a silhouette
disappearing
on my horizon

I am weak
exhausted of heaviness
and longing for
a glance of light
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Jan 2011 · 1.1k
No Rain
Reza Mahani Jan 2011
In the depth of your eyes
I see the brown of an exhausted river
that once proudly filled its banks
I hear fishermen songs
as they sail contently
and I ask their ghosts
How do you sail back to your lovers
on the shores of a dried river?

A tear blossoms ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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