Tahirih Khodadoust Foroughi  

poet, U.S.A.

The Seven martyrs of Yazd

In memory of seven Bahá'ís who were executed in Yazd, Iran, in 1980.

I close my eyes, but to God to all
The seas have sunken, seven of them all.
But look, glorious gems,
have come out with style.
With one eye I weep
with the other I smile.

They were seven seas
of love and strength,
who sank to birng
gems of peace and
oneness
to the surface
of the earth.

Written in 1980, from My Calamity is My Providence, an anthology of poetry in response to the persecution of Bahá´ís in Iran, complied by Tahirih Khodadoust Foroughi, 1984.


Arts Dialogue, June 2001, Page 20.