Houshang ebtehaj sayeh poems about friendship
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A shining and unfading star in the bright galaxy of Persian literature…
You have come from millennia afar
On this long crimson path
Omnipresent in every step
Taken in this monstrous lair
All around echoes of your illuminating strides
On the morning of Wednesday 10 August 2022, Hushang Ebtehaj (a.k.a. ‘Sayeh’, meaning ‘Silhouette’), the poet of our people and homeland, passed away.
When Sayeh turned 90, a comrade asked him, “Have you ever thought about death?” He replied, “I see death as a leaf falling from a tree!”
Even by taking a glance at Sayeh’s poems, it is as if we are reviewing the history of the social and political movements of Iran, with all their victories and failures, and not through the usual vocabulary used in writing history, but through Sayeh’s clear and pure wording of his poems as well as the simple and tangible truths of their themes. The secret of his popularity and the adoration of his poetry is this simplicity and the truth that he takes after the characteristics of the ordinary and hardworking people of his homeland. As he said in a speech commemorating a departed friend: “As the foundation of this hall supports this structure and its load, the ordinary and h
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Ebtehaj, Houshang (Rasht, 25 Feb. 1928 – Köln, 10 August 2022), alias H. E. Sayeh. Modernist poet and famous ghazal-writer of contemporary Iran, songwriter and musician, and scholar in the field of critical studies of Hafez.
Bio Brief:
He was born to a distinguished and well-known family. His father, Mirza Aqa Khan, the son of Ebtehaj al-Mulk, was originally from Garakan, Tafresh, and his mother, Fatima Rifa’at, the daughter of Rifa’at al-Mamalik, was of Shirazi and Isfahani descent. He completed his elementary and secondary education up to the fourth year of high school at the Ansari, Qaani, Luqman and Shahpour schools of Rasht, and spent his fifth year of high school at Tamadon High School in Tehran. 1939 marks the first sparks of his poetic talent and passion for music. 1946 to 1951 laid the foundations for his acquaintances, friendships and communication with the traditional and modern poets of his day, along with renowned music maestros, including Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi, Nima Youshij, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Fereydoun Tavallalli, Forough Farrokhzad, Nader Naderpour, Fereydoun Moshiri, Sohrab Sepehri, Mehdi Akhavan Sales, Abolhasan Saba, and Ahmadi Ebadi. In 1954, he was employed by the Tehran State Construction and Cement
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Amir Houshang Ebtehaj, also influential by his pen name “H.E. Sayeh,” is a prominent Persian poet.
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