Holly Books Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Holly books

Tonight I
-chest ahead and head up
-want to write more about the Koran

Have read it
-in Farsi
-English
-Arabic

Not once but many times
-thirty is possible; and beyond

In times I held my pen
-as if sword or saber
-in times took a rose with
-great scent

But never dogma, nor fanatic
-never washed hands and feet
- (as respect for Koran,)
- (as if it "Must be done! ")

Never kissed, put on head
-or set it in high shelf

Don't agree with that kind
- "Keep it up, do not touch! "

This shop is for Mufti and Mullah
-to cheat us, sell to us
-what gives them good income

They seek a free ride on our backs
-to eat well when the rest of Ommah
-is in pain, hungry, and homeless…

This is how priests are
-regardless of their faiths
-if Muslim, Jewish or Christian
-include all others…

Holly books are holly
-I believe and respect
-through words, sentences
-not covers and papers…

Koran; no exception
-if it is left alone
-is the best

I read it researching
-to what time relating
-and ways of gathering

I follow Bazargan
-with his curve for verses
-based on time, occasions

Short and fast is each when
-Islam is beginning
-then after much longer, commanding
-since Islam has become governing
-Mohammad is head and accepted

Koran is poetic in each verse
-is wisely said; well-versed

Am proud that read it
-and will sure read again
-if allows length of life

To me who read Bible
-exactly in same way, same manner
-Holly books are great, valuable

All of them bear the same intention:
- "Forgive and forget and have respect
-for all of brothers and sisters
-with their rights, what they earn."

This meaning easily transfers:
- "Everyone is a child to God, so
-we are, all, "Equal".
-to parent child is child (daughter, son) .