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Golbon

Disturbing the Conventional Since 1985
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Growing up I was a prolific writer. During my primary education, I was the favorite spoken-word/author in literature classes. In my last visit home my old friends revealed to me letters and poetic texts that they had saved from those years; written by me as if manipulating their mood with those words was a given! My mother tongue, Farsi, allows for an endless complex of metaphors and symbolism to merge with material representations and realism in writing. 

I began writing poem-like texts in English in 2013. I have participated in T.O and Ottawa's Capital Poetry Slams for about a year. Nonetheless I consider myself far from being a poet. The following texts are only humble narrations of love, loss and suffering.

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Defeat

Golbon Moltaji May 2, 2016

When they were taking pictures on their phones

I paddled the muddy waters

When they were cutting your heads off with cotton

I gathered the sacred fires

When they were cuddling inside

I stood the snowstorms

When they were colonizing you gently

I carried your torch

The storm has passed now,

Rest in peace

Sleepy revolution!

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