Volume 5 | Issue 3 | Aug - Sept
2011 |
Homeward
Maryam Ala Amjadi
To homesick words
when the pen and the paper lock horns,
a poem
is just a house of many doors
where to the letter
all page long
words are sentenced
to beat their heads against walls
in search of a window to the heart
that opens only
when the eyes are shut.
Maryam Ala Amjadi - (born 1984, Tehran) is an Iranian poet, essayist and translator who has spent the impressionable years of her childhood in India. She also has an M.A. in English Literature from University of Pune. Ala Amjadi who writes primarily in English was the winner of the Silver Medal in the 14th National Persian Literature Olympiad (2001) and was awarded Honorary Fellowship in Creative Writing by the International Writers Program (IWP) at University of Iowa, U.S.A. (2008).
