In Memoriam Hashem Shaabani
(Ahwazi Arab poet executed by the Iranian regime, January 27, 2014)
We searched you in the hollows
And we searched you in the fen
We took you down for mercy
And we took you down again
We heard you’d gone a-roaming
And taken up your pen
We heard you used the Holy Name
And took that Name in vain
We saw you in the papers
And we heard you in the den
We knew you’d gone a-roaming
By the treason of your pen
We thought we’d show you mercy
And let you live again
We thought we’d offer clemency
If you’d just put down the pen
You raised it high against us
Stabbed us dead and dead again
With your prophecies of freedom
That take the Holy Name in vain.
We searched you in the hollows
And we searched you in the fen
We took you down for mercy
And we took you down again
We found you in the hollows
And we found you in the fen
And we took you down for mercy
So you’ll never rise again.
(published in Overland Literary Journal #217, Summer 2014: https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-217/poem-martin-kovan/)
Hashem Shaabani is Arabian Poet from Ahwaz who executed by Iranian persian regime.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/irans-dead-poets-society-the-execution-of-hashem-shabaani-shows-the-pen-can-be-mightier-than-the-sword-9124516.html
Dear Martin Kovan
Thank you for your poetry about Hashem Shaabani, I want to let you know that Hashem Shaabani is not Persian. He is Arabic from Ahwaz in Iran. Ahwaz Arabic area in Iran.For more details see this link and please sign and publish the petition.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/iran-executes-two-ahwazi-arab-a-poet-and-teachers.html
Your sincerely
Karim