Five Poems by Soodabeh Saeidnia

 

Free Verses

a poem's prisoned
behind the tongue,
speaking with strange words
no one is able
to translate it
nor understand
where it comes from

sometimes, I let it walk
like an immigrant
in the city
and talk to it
with the sign language,
although it refuses to respond

I hope one day
we both learn
each other's alphabets
and enjoy listening
to our confessions

on that very day,
it'll be a free verse

  

contraception

there is an abyss

between what I think

and what I write

a tight relationship

sunk in the deep uncertainty

a bending light

fought for the sake of

a few more minutes

a limit on the amount

of feeling one should share

an unfair division among senses

and substantial damages

I've paid in recompense

there is a missing link

between what I write

and what you think

a ruined bridge

built and rebuilt

in a blink of an eye

a high resolution portrait

captured with the first drop

of our mutual conception

in a constant conflict

which is caused by

the deceptive consciousness

Three Short Poems

I)

like a smashed toffee

he lives a life
under pressure
never got a chance
to sip the richness
of the moments
his days
taste like
instant coffee

  

II)

I was the calmness of light
resting on the ocean
in a warm summer dawn

you were the crazy painter
who drew the cold waves
and distorted my face

III)

when I said I love you
you looked at me
the way you doubted
my sanity
well darlin, you were right
people first get insane
then fall in love

Soodabeh Saeidnia lives in NYC but originally is a Persian. She got her Pharm D and Ph.D. of Pharmacognosy and has worked as a researcher, assistant and associate professor in the Kyoto University (Japan), TUMS (Iran) and University of Saskatchewan (Canada).

Her English poems have been published in different American and Canadian anthologies and literary magazines including “Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker” (by Great Weather for Media) “Squawk Back”, “Indiana Voice Journal”, “Scarlet Leaf Review”, “Sick Lit Magazine”, “Dying Dahlia Review”, “Sisyphus Quarterly”, “Poetry Life and Time”, “Paradox”, “TimBookTu”, “Babbling of the Irrational”, “SPINE”, “Tuck Magazine”, “La Libertad”, “Tiny Poetry”, “The Pen”, "NY Literary Journal", "Duane's PoeTree" and “352 degrees”. The first collection of her contemporary poems “Street of the Ginkgo Trees”, and also the anthologies (She is both the editor and contributor) “Voice of Monarch Butterflies, A Middle Eastern Anthology by 10 Poets” and “Apple Fruits of an Old Oak” are now alive on Amazon. She is the editor and translator of several bilingual anthologies in English and Farsi, "Where Are You From", "Persian Sugar in English Tea Vol: I, II, III" and "Saffron Flavored Rock Candy Vol: I, II".

 

Her micro-poems are daily updating on her X @SSaeidnia. A number of her poems are routinely posted through her weblog https://soodabehpoems.wordpress.com/ 

and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/soodabeh.saeidnia.