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    All Night Long: A Collection of Poems
    All Night Long: A Collection of Poems
    All Night Long: A Collection of Poems
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    All Night Long: A Collection of Poems

    By Farah Afshari

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    . . . to the existence
    that is entwined with darkness
    and propositions us with the advent of brightest of days
    and to all kindnesses and offerings
    of souls
    lost all night long...

    New Poetry Book Reflects on Life in and out of Iran
    Author Farah Afsharis rhymes and verses muse existentially All Night Long
    LONDON At very young age, author Farah Afshari was exposed to political and social events that shook the foundations of the society she lived in. During that time, she came across individuals who scarified their lives for what they believed would bring freedom for others. The works collected in All Night Long (published by AuthorHouse) reflects upon those times, and those who struggled to create a better future for the ones they loved, during some of the most pivotal moments of Iranian history.

    All Night Long is a collection of poems, some written over 30 years ago and some are very recent. The older poems are relevant to the authors experience of having lived as a young person in Iran with political and social unrest over revolution and post revolution years. The younger poems are more relevant to her current views of life and relationship with the people around her. The title of the book is from the poem she wrote nearly 30 years ago. Today, she still feels as strongly about the words in this poem as she did when she wrote it and that is the reason she chose it as the title for this book.

    Each poem tells a story of Afshari growing up as a human being and her personal journey through time and places as she experienced many major changes around her. The major theme is selflessness of individuals who sacrificed their being to bring about freedom for others, as well as interpretation of life in general.

    Afsharis poems come face to face with the readers feelings and experience of daily life in an intimate way. While political, social and individual in nature, the poems are rather international and relevant to everyone in the world who can make a connection to them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateAug 13, 2013
    ISBN9781481799812
    All Night Long: A Collection of Poems
    Author

    Farah Afshari

    Farah Afshari was born in Iran and began writing poetry from a very early age. As a young person, she experienced a revolution and a war as two major life events when living in Iran. These political and social upheavals greatly affected her views and opinion of the world around her and are the subjects of majority of poems in this book. Her poems have appeared in a considerable number of online social and literary journals, and this is her first collection of poems in English in the form of a book. She lives in London with her family.

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      All Night Long - Farah Afshari

      © 2013 by Farah Afshari. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 07/25/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-9980-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-9982-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-9981-2 (e)

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Mysteries and Dreams

      Lost Way

      Tiny Dream

      Awakening

      The Lost Love

      Come

      How Will You Ever Know

      Walk

      The Burning Morning

      One Moment Shall Suffice

      You, You, You

      The Moment

      Last word

      Why

      Regretful

      Absence

      The Beginnings and The Ends

      For You

      A Sign For You

      The Night and the Vase

      All Night Long

      The Sound of All Swollen Words

      Green Spring

      Butterfly

      Friendship

      Disturbed Dream

      Prisoner of Conscience

      Cry Rivers

      Everything Sweet

      The Sun and the Snowman

      Leper

      Forget What I Shall Remember

      The Night and Us

      Nil

      The Way

      Everlasting Witness Land

      Hand Painted Dreams

      Nothing Never Changes

      Invisible

      Home

      My Hands and Your Eyes

      Secret Words

      Today, Tomorrow and for All Eternity

      The Face of Tomorrow

      You Must Remember

      Lost Game

      My House

      Travelling Friend

      Lost in a Dream

      I am the Land of Living

      Northern Lights

      A Word Must

      That Gone

      That’s What You Are

      Another Door

      Belief

      Being

      Departing from Myself

      Reunion

      A New Day

      The Rover

      In Fall

      Waiting

      History

      Let’s Remember Today

      All Things Considered

      Rain

      Voice

      Love and Existence

      Blue Dream

      Tonight and Every Night

      The Mirage

      Without You

      The House is Empty

      Memory

      The Windows of Heart

      Afshari has given us 66 poems that are mostly about loss: loss of love, loss of homeland, loss of faith in self and of faith in tomorrow. The writing is both interesting and challenging: in the poem ‘Nothing Never Changes you will find this image: ‘the moment of departure /when that pure naked flame /danced the grey smoke of goodbye.’ In the poem ‘My Hands and Your Eyes’ you will find touching, fresh metaphors like this: ‘My hands have aged… /The warm stories /touch the frozen windows /and that strange and playful voice /from the bottom of my garden calls /open the window /My hands do not hear…’

      In the brilliant poem ‘Secret words’ we find this: ‘I gave you all the forbidden words /in the long echo of a silence /and I have /no more /no, no more words’. In ‘Today, Tomorrow, and Eternity’ we find this: ‘and I hate that bad news under your skin /eating away your kindness.’

      Fresh, different, and well crafted, several favourites in this collection are still echoing in my head. With sixty-six poems, you are going to be reading for a while, and some of the pieces are enigmatic enough that you will be rereading

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