Blogging With the Prez

* Simurgh of Persia with baby Zal

Blogging With the Prez

Imagine a cybercommunity,
a cyber world council,
a place people and presidents
talk, think and read
together, design agendas
for peace. Imagine
a cyber UN.

Imagine a sparkling-eyed president
who uses oil money to buy homes
for poor people.

Imagine a president
who can speak to foreign media (watch this)
without a script,
address root causes
of atrocity
in the Middle East.

Imagine a president
who makes Mike Wallace look
like an overbearing buffoon of a
mouthpiece for Zionist
propaganda,
and they both laugh
about it.

Imagine a president who jokes
about a jacket one minute
and explains that people have the right
to protect their homes the next.

Who doesn’t raise his voice
or point his finger,
who doesn’t sneer,
who smiles,
whose smile is dazzling,
who says
the time of the BOMB is over.

Imagine world council that
doesn't make a desert and call
it peace (Fisk).

Imagine a president who
reads, who blogs, a populist
who opposes oppression.

Who asks that Bush change his
way of looking at the world, his
behavior so Mike Wallace
doesn't have to ask
all these [stupid] questions.

Who talks to the people of the world –
like a Lula or a Chavez, who wears a plain jacket
and speaks about plain things —
who says this is a new age, a time
for talk, for understanding, for cultural exchange.

Imagine
blogging with the Prez —

of Iran?

©Susan Bright, 2006

*Note: Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate under attack in Iran.

Susan Bright is the author of nineteen books of poetry. She is the editor of Plain View Press which since 1975 has published one-hundred-and-fifty books. Her work as a poet, publisher, activist and educator has taken her all over the United States and abroad. Her most recent book, The Layers of Our Seeing, is a collection of poetry, photographs and essays about peace done in collaboration with photographer Alan Pogue and Middle Eastern journalist, Muna Hamzeh.


*The mythical Simurgh or Simorgh is depicted in Iranian art as a winged creature in the shape of a bird gigantic enough to carry off an elephant or a camel. It appears as a kind of peacock with the head of a dog and the claws of a lion; sometimes it is shown with a human face. The Simorgh was also called Siræng "Thirty Colors" because it is thought to have thirty different colors on its body, making it quite beautiful.

Because it is part mammal, the Simorgh suckled its young - and also has teeth. It has an enmity towards snakes and its natural habitat is a place with plenty of water. According to Attar, the Simorgh has thirty holes in her beak and blew the wind through them whenever she was hungry. Animals heard a pretty music and gathered at the peak of mountain where they were eaten by the Simorgh.

In one ancient Iranian account, the Simorgh was said to live 1700 years before plunging itself into flames (compare the phoenix); in later accounts, it is immortal and is said to have a nest in the Tree of Knowledge.

According to Iranian legend, it is said that this bird is so old that it has seen the destruction of the world three times over. Simorgh learned so much by living that long that it is thought to possess the knowledge of all ages.

Sassanid Persians believed the Sēnmurw would bestow fertility upon the land and the union between the earth and the sky. It roosted in the tree of life, Gaokerena, and lived in the land of the sacred Haōma plant, whose seeds could cure all evil. . .

When the Simorgh took flight, the tree of knowledge's leaves shook making all the seeds of every plant to fall out. These seeds floated around the world, taking root to become every type of plant that ever lived, and curing all the illnesses of mankind. Its feathers are said to be the color of copper, and though it was originally described as being a Dog-Bird, later it was shown with either the head of a man or a dog. It is inherently benevolent and a touch from its wings can cure any illness or wound.

Oz note:

The CBS site with the 60 minutes piece is crashing when the video is selected. We are pulling the link until we find a safe one.

The new link to the CBS Archives seems to be OK.

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