باد آمد The Wind Came

 موسیقی: فریبرز لاچینی

شعر: ژیلا مساعد، محمود کیانوش، فرهاد شیبانی آواز: سیمین قدیری ----------------------------------------------- باد آمد باد آمد از دریا ابر آورد گلها را با خود برد آنها را پرپر كرد برگ افتاد از شاخه سبزی را زردی برد پروانه رفت از باغ گرما را سردی برد گنجشكان بی آواز در لانه می مانند بچه ها آواز خوشبختی می خوانند

Music: Fariborz Lachini

Lyrics: Mahmoud Kianoosh

Vocals: Simin Qadiri

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The wind came, the wind came,

it brought clouds from the sea,

it took the flowers with it and filled them

The leaf fell from the branch,

yellowness took the green,

the butterfly left the garden,

the heat was taken by the cold,

the songless sparrows stay in the nest,

the children sing the song of happiness.

poem by Mahmud Kianush

(The attributions are not clear, there are a few names listed as writers who had some other role, undefined)

video source:

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Atash (Fire) | آتش

آتش

سراینده: محمود کیانوش

موسیقی: کمال طراوتی

Atash (Fire) Lyrics by Mahmud Kianush Composed by Kamal Taravati Performed by Nava Children Choir Pianist: Mahnaz Shadipour From Tuti Sabze Hendi Album Sound technician: Mani Hashemian Fire movie made by Eghbal Taravati Video editing by Mark William Pezzelato Copyright Nava Music Center. All Rights Reserved.

Published on Youtube 15 January 2022

Mahmud Kianush, Nothing is Eternal

  

"To be recited at my departure"

Giles Goodland and i recite Mahmud's poem, "Nothing is Eternal," to fulfill his wish (quoted above). Originally recorded 13 February 2021. Cover image by Katy Kianush.

Link to poem as text: https://mahmudkianushtribute.blogspot.com/p/nothing-is-eternal.html

2023 update

 

دو سال از مرگ محمود کیانوش گذشت

اطلاعات مقاله

• نویسنده,عنایت فانی
• شغل,بی‌بی‌سی
• ۲۲ دی ۱۴۰۱ - ۱۲ ژانویه ۲۰۲۳
• 
  
  
  
• Excerpt in translation:

• The 23rd of January coincides with the second anniversary of the death of Mahmoud Kianoosh, poet, writer, translator, literary critic and radio producer.

  Mahmoud Kianoosh started writing poetry and writing stories from his high school years, and when he was in the fourth grade of high school, he sent his first story to the weekly Nirvi Som, which was a very prestigious publication at that time, and most of its editors, from Khalil Maliki to Jalal Al Ahmad, were branches of the Tudeh party. They were. That short story under the title "Hasan Kakel and his dog" with the pseudonym M. Shabahang was printed. He says:

  "I couldn't believe that my story was published in the same pages that Jalal Al Ahmad's story was published the week before."

  After the fourth grade of high school, Kianoush went to a preparatory school and then became a teacher in a village near Tehran. During his time as a teacher, he also published four other stories in the third force magazine. During this period, with the publication of the weekly magazine Khushe, in which the poems of poets such as Ahmad Shamlou, Nader Naderpour, Mohammad Zohri and others were published, Kianoush, who had previously started writing ghazal and other styles of classical poetry, was drawn to writing new poetry and the first poem In his own words, he sent his "comprehensive" to Kusheh magazine and it was published. He says: "At this time, I started the second period of my literary activity."

  He was translating at the same time, and his first translated book was published under the title "To an Unknown God" by John Steinbeck.

• ...

• Mahmoud Kianoosh produced brilliant programs from 1360, first under the pseudonym of Ustad Moslehuddin Zashki in the "Oral Magazine" program and then under the name of Alizadeh Toosi in the Farsi Radio of the BBC; Including the five hundred and twenty "Letter from London" programs that were broadcast every week on the radio for ten years.

  One of my honors during my years as an editor in the non-news programs of BBC Farsi radio is the very valuable works that Mahmoud Kianoosh produced and performed in that department, including seventy programs "On Stories and Complaints of the Persian Language" and fourteen twenty-minute programs "A Thousand Years of Ghazal" Farsi".

  One of the good qualities of Kianoosh was his continuous research and his great pain was the stupidity of people who accepted common beliefs without question and, as he said, had become accustomed to their own ignorance. But he was not willing to accept this infamous habit of people and he used to argue with people in shops, alleys and streets, in taxis and buses and planted questions in the minds of his audience and made them think. The result of these controversies finally became a book under the title "Besheki, Biswaali".

  In the second year of the absence of this thoughtful and creative person, his place is very empty both in the literary space and in my personal life as a friend of Shafiq, as he says, "sympathetic, sympathetic, and sympathetic".

  • Article in full and additional links: https://www.bbc.com/persian/articles/ckr3y01ngg7o

2022 update

 

My thanks to Katy for these beautiful images of Mahmud's gravesite. 

The family was able to gather this year to honour the memory of Mahmud and Pari.

"On the left is my father’s epitaph in his own words and on the right, our dedication and tribute to him.

You can just see my mother’s memorial in the distance on the right, behind and above my father’s; 

It is very similar in appearance. Unfortunately, they could not be buried side by side 

due to the horrific number of deaths during the first two years of COVID."

Mahmud Kianush

Pari Mansouri

به یاد محمود کیانوش؛ یک سال گذشت In memory of Mahmoud Kianush, a year passed

excerpt from BBC Persian website 

نوشتن برای محمود کیانوش در حقیقت بهانهٔ ادامهٔ حیات بود و بخصوص در سال های آخر زندگی اش با وجود مریض احوالی وابستگی او به نوشتن برای زنده ماندن با تعهدی اجتماعی برای آگاه کردن توام شده بود

یک سال قبل در چنین روزی محمود کیانوش، شاعر، نویسنده، منتقد ادبی، روزنامه نگار و نویسنده و گویندهٔ رادیو درگذشت. کیانوش از دوران دبیرستان شعر گفتن و داستان نویسی را شروع کرد و تا سن ۸۷ سالگی که چشم از جهان فروبست هرگز از نوشتن دست نکشید.

نوشتن برای محمود کیانوش در حقیقت بهانهٔ ادامهٔ حیات بود و بخصوص در سال های آخر زندگی اش با وجود مریض احوالی وابستگی او به نوشتن برای زنده ماندن با تعهدی اجتماعی برای آگاه کردن توام شده بود و به همین دلیل خودرا از نظر زمانی در مضیقه می دید و «وقت تلف کردن» را جایز نمی دید و می نوشت و می نوشت.

For Mahmoud Kianoosh, writing was in fact an excuse to continue living, and especially in the last years of his life, despite his illness, his dependence on writing to survive was accompanied by a social obligation to inform.

A year ago, on this day [12 Jan 2021], Mahmoud Kianoosh, a poet, writer, literary critic, journalist, writer and radio announcer, died. Kianoosh started writing poetry and writing stories in high school, and never stopped writing until he was 87 years old.

For Mahmoud Kianoosh, writing was in fact an excuse to continue living, and especially in the last years of his life, despite his illness, his dependence on writing to survive was accompanied by a social obligation to inform, and for this reason he found himself in a time constraint. And he did not allow "wasting time" and wrote and wrote.

 https://www.bbc.com/persian/arts-59972756 for the full essay and a poem  

photo provided by Katy Kianush of MK in the1990s

Perhaps (in Farsi & English)

   

دیاش 

ناهگان 

          دیشروخ

                      ؛ دعلب یم ار نیمز 

قلطم ِتوكس و یهایس و

؛ دریگ یم ار اج همه 

نامز و

، دتفا یم سفن زا

                     ؛ دریم یم 

ناسنا ِشوماخ یادص و

                                ناهنپ ِشتآ اب 

                    دازآ یدایرف رد

                دریگ یم ار اضف : 

دیاش

 دیاز یم ار دوخ تیدبا. 

    

     7  هیوناژ2002 

PERHAPS

Suddenly

               The Sun

      devours the Earth;

And everywhere is sunk

In absolute darkness and infinite void;

And Time stops breathing and dies,

And the silent voice of Man,

With a hidden fire,

In a cry of relief

Fills the Space:

Perhaps

The Eternity is giving birth to herself.

Mahmud Kianush

akkaashi images by MK: Window I, Window II, 2008