I was actually thinking of you lately since all this 'me too' movement began. I hope you the best. Although I'm not a poetry enthusiast.

Very nice of you, benross. Thank you so much and enjoy your holidays!

Congratulations on your new book ... can't wait to read it this Christmas.

Let's make a deal... I'll buy two, if you call it as it really is: Christmas... Whatcha say?

Thank you very much, Shazde!

Thanks for letting us know but some of us are on budget so wondering if you are going to write a sample here?

​By the way if it is impressive to write such a book.

The book is only 8 dollars, my friend.

Anyway, as today on Facebook, there was an article about the biography of Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh, I place a poem I wrote about her execution, which is in the book.

This sinister noose

(For Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh  1971-2008)

From the top of a yellow crane,

Behind the high walls of Evin jail

A knotted hanging rope dangles

Over my life that's set to drain. 

My name is Fatima Truth-Seeker*

Speaker of a tale of finding myself              

Between a rock and a very hard place  

Breeding a death sentence for either case

Whether to let a man rape my daughter

And see her sentenced to death for that

Or to kill the rapist and be killed myself

By a State that is the Grim Reaper’s scythe.        

I release my mind for the flick of a second

And make friends with the blue of the sky

As the noose is thrown around my neck

On the orders of men of cloak and wreck

Time-traveller tyrants from Old Arabia

To strangle me following their Sharia Law

For having defended my girl against a goon

For not affording the high price of his blood             

For not being pardoned by the kin of the dead stud

Today on this day of fall, the Cosmos calls,

My cries and my girl’s supplication letter to           

The Ayatollah were not heard.

So I give voice to my blood  

Ready to break loose out of this geography

Grasping the truth of my circumstance.

When the Mullahs’ crane hoists me high up into the air

They’re not sending a woman to the moon

They’re not lifting the moral of a nation

They’re waving banner of men’s right,

On International Day for Elimination

Of Violence against women, to rape

Women, to degrade women, to batter them.

This is the meat of my truth I tear

From the bone of experience year after year.

What is your experience with a noose?

Where were you in November 2008?

Did you attend my upward dying?    

Did you fly with me to the edge?

Would you pledge to hold me awhile    

When death catches you my dear

Compatriots in a noose of sorrow 

In exile?  

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* Truth-Seeker is the English translation of the condemned woman's family name, 

 Haghighat-Pajouh