Red Rose (2018)
For Viola and Violin
Based on poetry by Forough Farrokhzad
Commissioned by Hannah Nicholas
Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, feminist author. Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32
Red rose.
Red rose.
Red rose.
He took me to the garden of red rose.
In the dark, hung a red rose on my wild hair then,
made love to me on the petal of a red rose.
Red rose.
Red rose.
Red rose.
O paralyzed doves,
Virgin barren trees, blind windows!
Look! Beneath my heart,
deep inside my womb now grows a rose;
red, red rose.
Red rose.
Red rose.
Red rose.
Rose, red like a flag
—a revolution.
A child. A child.
Red rose.
Red rose.
Red rose.
Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1967)
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