The heroes of Dehlavieh village
On 22nd of Farvardin
Played upon the heart strings
Earth in tears and grief
bowed its head with respect
for the human dike of Dehlavieh
the Time…became breathless for a while
for the beauty of this bravery
and the peak of this lenity
then stamped the prides of these heroes
on the astonished forehead of history
Long live the young men of Dehlavieh village
On 22 of Farvardin
rushed again… enemy’s torrent of sludge
instead of blossoming buds …and violets on meadows
from enemies seeding and replacing clouds
is nothing like rain…
constantly pouring water
and its torrent…
is ruining houses and bridges
and contaminates everything in stinking wallows
and sweeps and washes away
all belongings of the people... till chest in torrent
drowns farms and houses
breaks all the bridges
and leaves behind pain …misery
and endless poverty
hundreds of thousands of miles… upturned ruined roads
not…in one or two towns
but all over Iran
the US lever for domination
is protecting distance by…
pushing in poverty … every single nation
Long live the young heroes of Dehlavieh village
the young valiant men of Dehlavieh Village
in cold…where there were no facilities to make a dike
bravely jumped in the rush of the muddy torrent
and joined shoulder to shoulder…
stood tight behind each other
made a palpitating dike against the torrent
and put their bare…human loving chests
against the torrent’s cold roaring whips
Long live the young men of Dehlavieh village
with admiration and respect
the world widely reflected
and recorded the history
the exhausting efforts
of these true masters of resistance
this pure sunrise of personality
and of human refusal to surrender
Long live the young men of Dehlavieh village
Farah Notash
Vienna 16.04.2019 = 27th Farvardin
Poem book 8
www.farah-notash.com
* Dehlavieh is one of the villages of Ahvaz, a town in south west Iran.
*Farvardin is the first month of the Persian year.