• Home
  • Issues 1-88
    • Features
    • H\R 91
    • Events & Projects
    • A/V
    • Chap|books
    • Non Fiction
    • Education
    • Essay
    • Fiction
    • Graphic
    • Mauna Kea
    • Multilingual
    • Poetry
    • Fantastic in the Pacific
    • Reviews
    • Event: Ask the Brindled
    • Purchase
    • Donate
    • Submit
    • About
    • Editors
    • Statements
Menu

Hawai‘i Review

Street Address
City, State, Zip
Phone Number

Your Custom Text Here

Hawai‘i Review

  • Home
  • Issues 1-88
  • Features
    • Features
    • H\R 91
    • Events & Projects
    • A/V
    • Chap|books
    • Non Fiction
    • Education
    • Essay
    • Fiction
    • Graphic
    • Mauna Kea
    • Multilingual
    • Poetry
    • Fantastic in the Pacific
  • Reviews
    • Reviews
    • Event: Ask the Brindled
  • Engage
    • Purchase
    • Donate
    • Submit
  • About
    • About
    • Editors
    • Statements

HOSSEIN RAHMANI: The Shepherd

January 30, 2017 Hawaiʻi Review
Artwork: Rebecca Pyle, Spaceport, North Temple Street (Salt Lake City), oil on canvas, 32x32, 2013

Artwork: Rebecca Pyle, Spaceport, North Temple Street (Salt Lake City), oil on canvas, 32x32, 2013

The Shepherd

 

You were the wrath of a rock with mouth opened.
With a face through which death has passed, you came back
with shoulders which changed the wind’s path.
Your hand disturbed the sleep of guns,
the sleep of mountain

"Don't leave the valley alone", you said
“Keep the spring in the village
and put on the winter around your arm.”
With the sorrow of a shepherd in the rain you sang
and began to walk away;
You left your grief for clouds
to take the valley every evening
to take my chest
and darken the walnut trees.

 

About the Author      Hossein Rahmani was born in Mashhad, Iran (August 9th 1992). He is studying in the field of agroeconomy at University of Torbat Heydarieh. Also, his poems were published in Literati Quarterly (Spring 2016).


About the Artist      Rebecca Pyle is both artist and writer. This summer she helped complete an almost endless gold-and-green mural full of Celtic knots and dragons on a stucco wall in Salt Lake City; many years ago she was a set painter for a theater company in Kansas. See artwork by Rebecca Pyle at rebeccapyleartist.wordpress.com.

In Poetry, HR 85 Tags hossein rahmani
← GEORGE ABRAHAM: BirthrightELAHE FAYAZI: Sad women →

Hawai'i Review - Hemenway Hall 107, 2445 Campus Road, Honolulu, HI 96822