Thais (symbol of ………….)
In the honor of all righteous combatants to inequality and cruelty around the world.
This is a poem by professor Ali Moallem ( The head of academy of art in I.R.Iran) in response to a shameful cinematic work , Alexander, by Hollywood director Oliver Stone in 2004. The reversion of poem took place for its beautiful description of reality of USA and its symbol to which Americans may very much feel glory. Of course it may look not so literary because I 'm not a poet but I'm happy to do my best.
Who was Thais? As in poem the poet describes, Thais as a whore with many women like herself served Alexander and his officers as companion and concubine in his battle against Dara (Dariush III), the last king of Achamenid dynasty, in 330 B.C. Alexander entered Pasargad after two severe war, Granicus and Gaugamal and defeat of Persian officer Aryobarzan and his 300 soldiers about Pasargad, and settled in Persepolis palaces for some times. One night during a feast, Alexander and his sweetheart, Thais, took the torches to set fire in the palaces. To set the fire, is said, was Thais's suggestion, but who knows maybe the Greeks tended for retribution for what Xerxes , son of Dariush I, did to Acropolis temple in Athen. Of course what Xerxes did in Athen was a kind of reprisal for what Greeks performed in Sardis, the capital of Lydia, that was a Persian province and had been burned by Greeks.
What seems shameful is that a statue as symbol taken by American and French , who have built the statue and presented to Americans in 19th century, is said to be Thais ,Alexander 's sweetheart, and they see it as symbol of liberty. Just think on that a whore is a symbol. What a good character for glory !!! What does she want to do ? Will she burn the the legacy of ethics and humanity? we must see...
Now here is the poem:
A Thaïs's plan it was
An Eblis's[1] plan it was
From cursed Macedonian's concubine
In a night raid of flame and wine
In night of rage and blood line
A Thaïs's plan, it was
From impudent goddess of Athenian
In Nice, her temple is
A female demon with a bit to six meter and three hundred feet height
A crown, with a torch in hand,
On her head by plundering Jam's[2] land,
Last year or before, exiled from Paris
Left on the scarlet tides of Atlantis
A Thaïs's plan, it was
Now, that unique statue of Liberty
Luring on the seashore of Liberty
A plan of Thais, it is
A Thaïs's plan, it was
Of cursed ladylove of Alexander
The plan of flirting cries for pair, on entry of harbor
A figure of Thais and torch
The plan of Mandane's[3] rage till Farvahar[4]
Till candlestick, till soil
The plan of liberty, though to be slave
The plan of disbelieving and pagan to live
The plan of Humanism bred of techne[5]
The plan of last leakage into human's faith
The plan of Thais with a torch
Of Eblis
A left female demon on tides of Atlantis
The plan of Thais, it is
What you see, is not Babylon, no Athenai, Attica this is
But no, Greek Attica, proud Babylon, America is this
Enemy to god unification, to insult god is this
A mad demon America is and now in chain it sleeps
A shadow to Zahhak[6] and Dajjal[7], no anyhow it's not alive
Apocalypse now did with Iron Age an effective strife
People of seven continents! Stand up and raise
To vanish the dragon incite the scoured flames
An Octopus with seven heads in continual breeding
For the murky lie its eyes in continual weeping
Do kill it and do perform it good
Or like human to avoid a wolfish mood
A plan from Thais, of Eblis, from the Satan of Attica
A shameful stain on the shame of world that is America
Reversed by: Sayyed Hasan Salehzadeh
[1] - The Satan's name in Quran
[2] - Jamshid Jam ,The legendary king of ancient Iran
[3] - mother of Cyrus the great
[4] - In Zoroasterian belief, the power of god(Ahuramazda)
[5] - In Greek language means art
[6]- The legendary tyrant king of Persia who had two snakes on his shoulders
[7]- The Impostor or Antichrist
In the honor of all righteous combatants to inequality and cruelty around the world.
This is a poem by professor Ali Moallem ( The head of academy of art in I.R.Iran) in response to a shameful cinematic work , Alexander, by Hollywood director Oliver Stone in 2004. The reversion of poem took place for its beautiful description of reality of USA and its symbol to which Americans may very much feel glory. Of course it may look not so literary because I 'm not a poet but I'm happy to do my best.
Who was Thais? As in poem the poet describes, Thais as a whore with many women like herself served Alexander and his officers as companion and concubine in his battle against Dara (Dariush III), the last king of Achamenid dynasty, in 330 B.C. Alexander entered Pasargad after two severe war, Granicus and Gaugamal and defeat of Persian officer Aryobarzan and his 300 soldiers about Pasargad, and settled in Persepolis palaces for some times. One night during a feast, Alexander and his sweetheart, Thais, took the torches to set fire in the palaces. To set the fire, is said, was Thais's suggestion, but who knows maybe the Greeks tended for retribution for what Xerxes , son of Dariush I, did to Acropolis temple in Athen. Of course what Xerxes did in Athen was a kind of reprisal for what Greeks performed in Sardis, the capital of Lydia, that was a Persian province and had been burned by Greeks.
What seems shameful is that a statue as symbol taken by American and French , who have built the statue and presented to Americans in 19th century, is said to be Thais ,Alexander 's sweetheart, and they see it as symbol of liberty. Just think on that a whore is a symbol. What a good character for glory !!! What does she want to do ? Will she burn the the legacy of ethics and humanity? we must see...
Now here is the poem:
A Thaïs's plan it was
An Eblis's[1] plan it was
From cursed Macedonian's concubine
In a night raid of flame and wine
In night of rage and blood line
A Thaïs's plan, it was
From impudent goddess of Athenian
In Nice, her temple is
A female demon with a bit to six meter and three hundred feet height
A crown, with a torch in hand,
On her head by plundering Jam's[2] land,
Last year or before, exiled from Paris
Left on the scarlet tides of Atlantis
A Thaïs's plan, it was
Now, that unique statue of Liberty
Luring on the seashore of Liberty
A plan of Thais, it is
A Thaïs's plan, it was
Of cursed ladylove of Alexander
The plan of flirting cries for pair, on entry of harbor
A figure of Thais and torch
The plan of Mandane's[3] rage till Farvahar[4]
Till candlestick, till soil
The plan of liberty, though to be slave
The plan of disbelieving and pagan to live
The plan of Humanism bred of techne[5]
The plan of last leakage into human's faith
The plan of Thais with a torch
Of Eblis
A left female demon on tides of Atlantis
The plan of Thais, it is
What you see, is not Babylon, no Athenai, Attica this is
But no, Greek Attica, proud Babylon, America is this
Enemy to god unification, to insult god is this
A mad demon America is and now in chain it sleeps
A shadow to Zahhak[6] and Dajjal[7], no anyhow it's not alive
Apocalypse now did with Iron Age an effective strife
People of seven continents! Stand up and raise
To vanish the dragon incite the scoured flames
An Octopus with seven heads in continual breeding
For the murky lie its eyes in continual weeping
Do kill it and do perform it good
Or like human to avoid a wolfish mood
A plan from Thais, of Eblis, from the Satan of Attica
A shameful stain on the shame of world that is America
Reversed by: Sayyed Hasan Salehzadeh
[1] - The Satan's name in Quran
[2] - Jamshid Jam ,The legendary king of ancient Iran
[3] - mother of Cyrus the great
[4] - In Zoroasterian belief, the power of god(Ahuramazda)
[5] - In Greek language means art
[6]- The legendary tyrant king of Persia who had two snakes on his shoulders
[7]- The Impostor or Antichrist
