Hamid:

Mamnun majid jon, a nice sorrowful poem but a little vague because the average reader does not know the backstory of this event: why did Jalil not want to answer the question of the judge, what the significance of it. Why is this a shard of glass for you?   Then the poem is silent about the irony that the executioner has apparently been free to escape the country and is safe and free in Sweden but the revolutionary is buried in the cemetery of the infidels.  Or is he being tried in Sweden for his murders of Iranian dissidents.  Some context would be informative.

Majid Naficy: Please check "The Trial of Hamid Nouri" in Wikipedia.

Mamad:

خسته نباشی مجید جان. پر احساس، با همدردی و خشم از جنایت های جمهوری اسلامی

قربونت،
ممد 

Nora:

Majid jon ,

Thanks for another great poem. You are great at conveying  important things in artistic ways.

Understanding poetry is an art in itself, and I don’t think the responsibility falls on poets’ shoulders only.

When in this poem you portray a daunting situation that a prisoner standing in the “hallway of death“ has to decide between a death with dignity or a life of misery is poignant.

You are trying to encourage readers to think more broadly on how brutal and terrifying this situation is.

If I need to know the premise of your poem, then it’s upon me as a reader to search further and not upon you as a poet to explain everything.

Thanks,

Lillian Boraks Nemetz, Polish-Canadian Poet and a Holocaust Survivor:‌

Dear Majid

That shard of glass image
In the Trial of Hamid Nouri
Illuminated your thoughts
And feelings on the revolution
And the “selection” illuminated
My family’s experience with the Final
Solution.

Thank you
Lillian