#sin selected poems

[flowerytale]

Forugh Farrokhzad, from ‘Forgive Her’, Sin: Selected Poems

[soracities]

Forugh Farrokhzad, from a letter to Fereydoon Farrokhzad in Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad [transcript in ALT]

[daweyt]

Forugh Farrokhzad, from a letter to Ebrahim Golestan featured in “Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad,” tr. by Sholeh Wolpé.

[mournfulroses]

Forough Farrokhzad, from a poem titled “The Sin”, featured in Sin: Selected Poems of Forough Farrokhzad

[majestativa]

Mad, really mad, a stranger to herself and others, oblivious to the world, […] around her neck a necklace of curses and tears.

— Simin Behbahani, A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems, transl by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, (1999)

[andrumedus]

Forgive, duty-bound deceiver, the deceived, for she was your only destiny. Sun, earth, birds of heaven, every simple, free, and luminous creature on earth, forgive me. / My sin was not the spring-like sin of the cicada, the understood and even loved sin. It was the silent dark sin of the ant. It was the sin of provisions, the sin of the cave, the sin of being afraid of intoxication, and afraid of the light.

Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “LV”

[feral-ballad]

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; "On Loving"

[Text ID: "Do you know what I want of life? / That I can be with you, you, all of you, / and if life repeated a thousand times, / still you, you, and again, you."]

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of august

marge piercy circles on the water: selected poems of marge piercy: "for the young who want to"

marilyn chin fruit études

lisa olstein radio crackling, radio gone: "the hypnotist's daughter"

elizabeth willis address: "the witch"

jana prikryl the after party: "to tell of bodies changed"

diane seuss backyard song

alison c. rollings original [sin]

gerard malanga cornelius...cornelius gurlitt

todd boss rocket

beyza ozer to summarise a galaxy

john foy night vision: "woods"

clodagh beresford dunne ford galaxy

dorianne laux smoke: "heart"

anthony madrid like a cloud above the ravine

pascale petit swamp deer

frank o'hara maurice ravel

adonis selected poems: "desert" (tr. khaled mattawa)

sonja johanson three deer in oquossoc

melissa stein terrible blooms: "lemon and cedar"

w. s. di piero having my cards read

thomas hoagland bible study

peter campion big avalanche ravine

alberto ríos the smallest muscle in the human body: "rabbits and fire"

lena khalaf tuffaha water & salt: "mountain, stone"

josephine miles desert

jeanne murray walker invocation to convince a baby already more than twelve days overdue to come out of the womb

andrew hudgins the imagined copperhead

robert carr stargazing while sedated

mary ruefle among the musk ox people: poems: "blood soup"

jack collom red car goes by: selected poems 1955-2000: "bald eagle count"

mahmoud darwish to a young poet (tr. fady joudah)

kofi

[seemeunseelie]

‘LIX’ from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems (2016), by Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor | Kate McGahan (unknown origin) | starpeace | ‘I Cannot Be Known’ from Selected Poems by Paul Eluard (1936), tr. Gilbert Bowen (1988) | Norwegian Wood (1987), by Haruki Murakami | ‘Walking Home’ from Magdalene (2017), by Marie Howe | Ruin and Rising (2014), Leigh Bardugo | ‘Soul Mates’ from Love and Misadventure (2013), by Lang Leav | Gabriela Mistral, from a letter to Doris Dana (c.1950), tr. Velma García-Gorena | I Origins (2014), dir Mike Cahill |‘It’s All Coming Back To Me Now’ from Original Sin (1989), Jim Steinman | ‘All Things End’ from Unreal Unearth (2023), Hozier | all other images taken from Baldur's Gate 3 (Larian Studios)

[magpie-murder]

the magpie who whispers

another birth: selected poems of forugh farrokhzad; "servitude I" | young avengers | portrait of fryderyk in shifting light, richard siken | a comment found on tiktok | loki: agent of asgard | some are always hungry; “the leaving season” by jihyun yun | on love, marina tsvetaeva | thor and loki: original sin | anne carson glass, irony and god: “the glass essay” 

[oppienheimer]

forugh farrokhzad, sin: selected poems / gregory orr, the last love poem i will ever write / j.s. park / madeline miller, circe / simone weil, la connaissance surnaturelle / haruki murakami, kafka on the shore, norwegian wood / jeanette winterson, lighthousekeeping / madeline miller, the song of achilles / simone de beauvoir, letters to sartre / richard siken, planet of love

[flowerytale]

Forugh Farrokhzad, from ‘On Loving’, Sin: Selected Poems

[kaurwreck]

"there was no reason/no point to that scene" / "that has nothing to do with her ability" the point is that yosano akiko penned erotic tanka with the same hand, heart, and wit with which she penned women are plunder and you shall not be killed, brother. the point is that anger and passion and eroticism and ardent love for life need not be wholly distinct.

bones, differently from but similar to the manga and light novels, intertwines yosano's healing and eroticism as facets of her passions. her fervency for the sanctity of life, her purring affection for viscera, and her lust comingle because they are not wholly separable, their roots entangling in the core of who she is.

in her own words:

Friends, please don't ask whatever remains of love. And don't preach to me. Let our poetry endure. It is the cross we bear.

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Ignoring the ways of right or wrong, eternal life or lasting fame, we turn to face each other, loved and lover, face to face.

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In return for all the sins and crimes of men, the gods created me with glistening long black hair and pale, inviting skin.

[from A River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko]

[daweyt]

Forugh Farrokhzad, from “Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; ‘On Loving’”, tr. Sholeh Wolpé.

[mournfulroses]

Forugh Farrokhzad, from Sin: Selected Poems; "Captive,"

[majestativa]

A lily, like a black snake, coiled around the moon, snatched it away, in its poisonous mouth.

— Simin Behbahani, A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems, transl by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, (1999)