Shataw Naseri
Sitting under the brilliant shade of an elm tree
Shataw Naseri is an Iranian and Kurd. She was born in Sanandaj, Kurdistan in 1985 and now she is a journalist. She has M.A. in English literature from Shahid Beheshti University (the best Iranian university for English Literature) in Tehran. She loves Romantic literature especially Byron.
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Sitting under the brilliant shade of an elm tree
Drinking a glass of wine out of my own tears
And drawing the sketch of your gloomy visage
Upon the canvas of the red sky
While my brush was the melancholic sweat of my soul
And the fireflies murmuring around
Your gloomy tomb and
Daffodils weeping for your fore-doomed youth
“Oh woe on me, oh misery”
Dear Darling my love!
When the angry angels came drawing
You to the plague some heaven
And I, looking on them just weeping and wailing
Oh Dear darling my love
“Oh woe on me, oh misery, oh misery.”
When I draw the sweetest primroses upon the
The doomed bed of your velvety jailed body
With mine pale brush dancing with its accursed diaphone
Coquetting for the Death to keep you there
Forever In your stony corpse
Till the last line of the eternity
“Oh, woe on me, oh misery, oh misery”
Shataw Naseri is an Iranian and Kurd. She was born in Sanandaj, Kurdistan in 1985 and now she is a journalist. She has M.A. in English literature from Shahid Beheshti University (the best Iranian university for English Literature) in Tehran. She loves Romantic literature especially Byron.