Capturing the Profound Human Experience: Editor's Choice Winner Offers Exposed and Passionate Emotion

July 15, 2009

Human emotion is complex and delicate; most are afraid to share their innermost feelings. Professor and author, Nooshan Shekarabi, has put her fear aside and collected her most personal and vulnerable thoughts into a collection of poems in the new Editor's Choice winner, "Seasons -- Twenty-two Poems from My Heart".

"Seasons" shares twenty-two poems that capture the beautiful simplicities and the most profound complexities of Shekarabi's experiences in the past decade. Her poems offer a variety of subjects including love, family, political turmoil, betrayal, depression, injustice, dreams and more. She credits her paternal grandmother for her love of poetry and language and refers to her sister as her inspiration. Following is a verse from her poem titled "Seasons":

    These are the days when the sun is angry
    She won't warm my olive skin, and the dark clouds are victorious
    These are the days when my cheekbones are moist with tears
    They drench my face and rock me to sleep
    These are the days when I miss you in an incomprehensible way
    The void of your being makes my heart ache
    These are the nights when I mourn the love you never felt for me
    The love you had preserved for another time with another
    These are the nights when you are warm and content in her bed
    A bed filled with memories and comfort of knowing
    These are the nights when I drive to the beach looking for my swimmer
    The swimmer I watch as he drifts away from my sight, unresponsive to my pleas

About the Author

Nooshan Shekarabi was born in Tehran, Iran and has a great love and admiration for both her own Persian culture and that of the American culture. Shekarabi is a political science professor at Santiago Canyon College and currently resides in Irvine, California. She is an accomplished and published author in the academic setting and refers to her poetry as, "my secret love and diversion from teaching politics.

SOURCE iUniverse