Poets Who Contributed to “Persian Sugar in English Tea”: Kathy Lundy Derengowski

Kathy Lundy Derengowski is a native of San Diego county. She is an active member and co-facilitator of the “Lake San Marcos Writer’s Workshop”. Her work has appeared in Summation, the ekphrasis anthology of the Escondido Arts Partnership, California Quarterly, Silver Birch Press, Turtle Light Press and the Journal of Modern Poetry. She has won awards from the California State Poetry Society and  been a finalist in the San Diego book Awards poetry chapbook category. She has been featured as a guest blogger on Trish Hopkinson’s A Selfish Poet blog.

She contributed with a sonnet to the third volume of the bilingual anthology, Persian Sugar in English Tea. You can hear the translation of the poem on the link below: 

The Hunted – a Sonnet

Kathy Lundy Derengowski

 

In love with love, I was your easy prey

Quick to believe your coaxing and your charms

Swiftly I fell, too late to run away

Lost in the strong embraces of your arms

 

I was the quarry, caught within a net

woven of words designed to court and woo

seduced to play the role of Juliet

I was convinced that every word was true.

 

I was no more than trophy on your wall

merely a day’s distraction, nothing more

Nothing to you – to me was all, and all

My only hope of life worth living for.

 

These are the facts, and all the details of

cruel heartbreak and my love affair, with love.

صید – غزل واره

کتی لاندی درنگووسکی

عاشق عشق بودم، صیدی آسان برایت

چه زود باور کردم وسوسه ی فریبنده ات را

شتابان فرو افتادم، نه فرصتی برای گریختن

گم شدم در آغوش توانمندت

معدن جواهری بودم که در دام افتاد

در تور واژگانی از خواستگاری و ترقیب

مسحور بازی در نقش لیلی

حقیقت هر واژه ات را باور داشتم

ولی من بیش از جامی بر دیوارت نبودم

و نه چیزی بیش از سرگرمی یکروزه ات

برای تو هیچ، برای من همه چیز

تنها امید به زندگی، ارزش زیستن را دارد

حقایق چنین اند از دل شکستنی بی رحمانه

و صمیمیت ام با عشق

Poets Who Contributed to “Persian Sugar in English Tea”: Dan Bourget

Dan Bourget is a freelance writer specializing in script coverage and screenwriting. Dan is also a poet with a strong fondness for haiku, tanka and the great confessional poetry of Plath and Sexton. Dan is also an ex disc jockey of Soul & Jazz and music has always been a big influence on all of his poetry, ( it’s all in the rhythm ). He graduated from CCRI with a degree in liberal arts and communications. Previously was published in “Where Are You From?”, “Persian Sugar in English Tea” & “Dandielion in a Vase of Roses”. He currently resides in Providence R.I., the Ocean State. He contributed with 10 short poems to the third volume of the bilingual anthology, Persian Sugar in English Tea, Vol III. He also contributed with 9 poems to the vol II. 

Here you can hear the Farsi translation of 5 poems from the volume III.

 

 

lovecraft and you ( for chrisya )

we came, saw, conquered

planted poems to fuel the dust

( bowed to providence )

cuervo toast, ” long live lovecraft ”

graveyard grass, proud at our feet.

 

 

love words ( for deborah )

powerful; your grace

words of love plucked from the heart

dance into the light.

 

carved in tree

clock ticks ever still

warm last breath evading me

I die with winds best

collapse on sword, ( thou request )

what’s left of love; carved in tree.

 

 

(عاشقانه ها (به کریسیا

آمدیم، دیدیم، فتح کردیم

شعرها را کاشتیم تا غبار را به آتش کشد

(به سرنوشت سر تسلیم فرود آوردیم)

“در کوئروو” به سلامتی نوشیدیم، “عاشقانه ای جاوید”

چمن گورستان، به قدوم ما افتخار می کند

 

(عاشقانه ها (به دبورا

قدرتمند است شکوه ات

کلمات عاشقانه از قلب جدا شده

در نور می رقصند

 

حک شده  بر درخت

ساعت همیشه تیک تاک می کند

آخرین نفس گرمم، مرا ترک می گوید

من با باد بهتر می میرم

(بر شمشیر فرود می آیم، (این درخواست توست

آنچه از عشق بجا می ماند، بر درختی حک شده

Poets Who Contributed to “Persian Sugar in English Tea”: Bob MacKenzie

Bob MacKenzie’s poems have appeared in journals and anthologies around the world as well as in several books of his poetry. In July 2018, Bob’s newest book of poetry, “somewhere still in wind the tree is bending” was launched by Silver Bow Publishing in New Westminster, B.C. He Contributed with two poems to the third volume of the bilingual anthology, Persian Sugar in English Tea. You can hear the translation of them on the link below:

I Would Photograph You

Bob MacKenzie

 

I would photograph you in just that way,

you reclining among the windblown grain,

the sun winnowing its light through your hair,

your cotton summer dress soft in its light.

 

You would be resting there in the sunlight

gazing up the hill at that warm farm home

inviting you to come when you’re ready

like that shining city you see in dreams.

 

I would add colour to this photograph,

clover perhaps or daisies in the breeze,

and bright paint on that old grey house and barn,

and add a bright print to your cotton dress.

 

I would photograph you in just that way,

lit by sunlight in a world of flowers

where songbirds sing and the sun seeks you out

but, most of all, I would photograph you.

 

Note: Published in That Not Forgotten, anthology (Hidden Brook Press, 2011); BFW Bound: Instant Anthology, limited edition anthology (BookFest Windsor, 2012); The Picture Perfect Poetry Chapbook Anthology (Ontario Poetry Society, 2015); Agapé: Heaven & Earth (Dark Matter Press, 2015)

عادت دارم که تو را به تصویر کشم

باب مک کینزی

عادت دارم که تو را به تصویر کشم

،درآن حال که در میان گندمزار بادگیر لمیده ای

خورشید شعاعش را در لابلای گیسوانت دوانیده

و لباس نخی تابستانی ات درزیر آفتاب گرم شده

تو عادت داری در آنجا، زیر آفتاب استراحت کنی

و نگاهت به بالای تپه خیره شود، به آن خانه گرم روستایی

که تو را بدرون دعوت می کند

مثل آن شهر باشکوهی که در رویاها می بینی

من عادت دارم که این تصویر را رنگی کنم

شاید با شبدر و یا بابونه ای در نسیم

و یا با رنگ روشنی بر آن خانه خاکستری قدیمی

و انبار، و چاپ تصاویری بر لباس نخی ات

عادت دارم که تو را به تصویر کشم

در آن حال که با تابش آفتاب در دنیای گلها می درخشی

جایی که پرندگان آواز سر داده و خورشید تو را در بیرون می جوید

اما بیش از همه اینها، عادت دارم که تو را به تصویر کشم

Poets Who Contributed to “Persian Sugar in English Tea”: Paul Brookes

Paul Brookes is a shop assistant, after employment as a security guard, postman, admin assistant, lecturer, poetry performer, with “Rats for Love”. His work included in “Rats for Love: The Book”, Bristol Broadsides, 1990. First chapbook “The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley” (Dearne Community Arts, 1993); Recently published in Blazevox, Nixes Mate, Live Nude Poems, The Bezine, The Bees Are Dead and others; “The Headpoke and Firewedding” (Alien Buddha Press, 2017); Illustrated chapbook “A World Where” (Nixes Mate Press, 2017); “The Spermbot Blues” (OpPRESS, 2017); “She Needs That Edge” (Nixes Mate Press, 2018); “Port Of Souls” (Alien Buddha Press, 2018) and Forthcoming “Stubborn Sod” (Alien Buddha Press).

Paul contributed with four poems to the third volume of the bilingual anthology, Persian Sugar in English Tea. You can hear the Farsi reciting of his poems on the link below:

 

Bus Stop

Paul Brookes

 

Hair a ruffled sea flecked with grey waits.

In time debates an unwanted wooden cross

Of youth held too tightly to her breast.

The sea of mad time within an arch of neverness

 

Decides to render all the work as if in want

Is wish, is happen, is more than stainless

Cold steel held in a warm hand to steady herself

On a rattling bus to nowhere, to no one.

 

Let this steadying hand that holds the world

And cold creep into her bones from that grasped

Fridge never to touch another’s hand. She collapses

Into a man equally stood beside her.

 

He holds her hand to steady her, settle the waves

as if she were a world. He smiles with “Thas cold as a brass monkey lass. ‘ere wear me gloves. Am less nesh than thee.”

His woollen gloves blessed too big let warmth travel.

ایستگاه اتوبوس

پاول بروکس

،گیسوانی ژولیده با رگه های خاکستری انتظار می کشد

آن صلیب چوبی که از جوانی محکم به سینه اش فشرده

ناخواسته با زمان مجادله می کند

دریایی از زمان دیوانه درون کشتی از پوچی

تصمیم می گیرد که تمام کارها را انجام دهد تو گویی در نیاز،

آرزویی هست که تحقق می یابد، چیزی بیش از فولاد سرد مقاوم

در دستانی گرم که او را در اتوبوس لرزان استوار نگاه می دارد

بسوی هیچ کجا، به سوی هیچ کس

بگذار این دستی که به میله چسبیده، که گویی جهان را نگه می دارد

و سرما را به استخوانهای او راه می دهد

هرگز دست دیگری را لمس نکند، او روی مردی

که کنارش ایستاده سقوط می کند

مرد دستش را می گیرد تا او بیایستد وتکانها به ثبات برسد

زن همچون دنیایی بود. مرد لبخندی می زند: “دستت آنقدر سرد است

که میمون یخ می زند، بیا دستکش های مرا بپوش، من به اندازه تو سردم نیست”

دستکش های بزرگ و پشمی آن مرد سفر گرمی را نوید می دهد

Poets Who Contributed to “Persian Sugar in English Tea”: Meg Freer

Meg Freer grew up in Montana and lives in Ontario where she is a piano teacher. Her photos and poems have won awards and have been accepted for publication in chapbook anthologies and journals such as COG, NatureWriting, Mothers Always Write, Young Ravens Literary Review, Eastern Iowa Review, and Rat’s Ass Review. In 2017 she won a writing fellowship and attended the Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi. In 2018 she had a prose poem shortlisted for the Room Magazine Short Forms contest as well as a contest winner for Cosmographia Book’s Poem of the Month.

She contributed with two short poems to the third volume of the anthology. Here, you can hear the Farsi translation of them:

 

 

Daring to be found in a summer lawn

Meg Freer

 

A four-leaf clover,

carefully folded in paper,

placed between pages

of a favorite book.

 

A season of sensations, gone

with breathtaking brevity,

with myself folded

carefully into your future.

 

Note: Published in quatrain.fish, online (2018) and Poetry and Prose from Northern Ontario (2018).

جرات حضور در چمن های تابستانه

یک شبدر چهار برگ

که با دقت در کاغذی تا شده

و بین صفحات کتابی عزیز

جای گرفته

فصل احساسات، گذشته

با اختصاری نفس گیر

با خودی که با دقت

در آینده تو تا شده

 

Poets Who Contributed to “Persian Sugar in English Tea”: Pilar Quintana

Pilar Quintana is a member of the Grey Court Poets whose poems can be found in their anthology Songs From the Castle’s Remains, Athens, GA’s Word of Mouth, the 2018 art/poetry collaboration Soulmates, and several other publications.

She contributed with a short poems to the third volume of the anthology. Here, you can hear the Farsi translation of it:

 

UNTIL

Pilar Quintana

 

Fall snow

Hold this moment tight

In your cold hand

Until she comes again

 

تا آندم که …

پیلار کوئین تانا

 !ببارای برف

این لحظه را در دستان سردت

محکم نگهدار

تا آندم که او دوباره باز گردد

Poets Who Contributed to “Persian Sugar in English Tea”: Isabell VanMerlin

Isabell VanMerlin is an artist/sculptor and poet, starting Merrimac [open] Mic in 2013.  Four anthologies have come from the poets of Merrimac Mic; it’s a wonderful community.  She is also a grandmother, separated from her grandchildren by the breadth of the continental United States.  Words can fly faster than airplanes … but it’s not the same … thus these outpourings of a longing heart!

Isabell contributed with two poems to the third volume of the anthology. You can hear the Farsi translation of them here:

 

Love Haiku

Isabell VanMerlin

There’s no cure for love

and there is nothing but love

so get over it.

 

هایکویی برای عشق

ایزابل ون – مرلین

عشق را درمانی نیست

و چیزی بجز عشق نیست

پس عشق بورز

Persian Sugar in English Tea, Vol III is now released

Dear Contributors and Brilliant Poets

I am so excited and honored to announce that the third volume of the bilingual anthology, Persian Sugar in British Tea, is now available on amazon. Congratulations to all who trusted my work and submitted the wonderful poetry. I deeply enjoyed through the process of translation and hope the Farsi readers enjoy too.  

 

There is no free copy of the book for contributors as it has already been mentioned in “Call For Submission” (Visit my weblog, Poemedicine). The benefits of sale will be spent to promote the print copies in the Farsi-speaking countries, which have no access to amazon, through individuals/private libraries and friends. You can go to the link below and order your copies.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1722360984/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534255651&sr=1-2&refinements=p_27%3ASoodabeh+Saeidnia

 

Poets who live in other countries: Please be noticed that the anthology will be available on Amazon Europe (amazon.fr, amazon.uk) and Amazon.in … etc in 3-5 business days, and on other channels like bookstores via expanded distribution in 6-8 weeks. 

 

I recommend you kindly visit the Facebook page of the anthology (https://www.facebook.com/bilingualanthologies.book/) once in awhile and be informed of the last news and updates. If you are interested in having all three volumes of the series, you may want to have a look on the Vol I and II on amazon by September 5 since both of them are on sale for about half a normal price (8.99$).

As a tradition, I had recited some of translations from vol I and II by the time I worked on the third volume. You can listen to the audios (with background Persian music) for free on soundcloud and my weblog, in which the detailed biographies of the contributors plus the selected translations have been shared.

Sample: https://soodabehpoems.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/poets-who-contributed-to-persian-sugar-in-english-tea-david-lawton/

If you would like to have an audio file of your translated poems in Farsi with a beautiful background music (usually traditional Iranian), please send an email to me (sooodabehsaeidnia@gmail.com) or via FB messenger and pay 5$ through the PayPal (amirsoodabeh@gmail.com). These small donations will be a great help to spread your wonderful poetry in such a sweet language.

  

Finally, I will do my best to share the book information through social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), and to promote it especially in Farsi-speaking communities. But the process will take time and need your kind support via sharing the anthology info and talking about it in your friendly meetings, reading events and so on. Thank you. 

 

 

Best Wishes

The editor

Persian Sugar in English Tea on Sale

Hurry up Dear Poets and Poetry Lovers!

The first and second volumes of the bilingual anthology, Persian Sugar in English Tea are now on sale (8.99$ compared to the original price 15.99$) on Amazon.com and soon on other Amazon branches in U.K. And Europe. If you like to have all three volumes, now is the time. The sale will continue by September 5.

The third volume will be released during the coming week on Amazon.comand around the next weekend on other sites. The pages are about 200 including the poems by 59 poets from around the world. The price for the US customers would be 16.50$.
I will update the info soon.

https://www.amazon.com/Persian-Sugar-English-…/…/ref=sr_1_1…

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