A Master Verse for a Martyr Veteran

According to the Bureau for Protection and Dissemination of Honored Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei's Works and the Islamic Revolution Cultural and Research Institute, there has been something in literature and poetry assemblies from old times called "master verse". A master verse is a verse, the master poet of such assemblies puts forward and asks other poets to write a poem using its theme, rhyming, and rhythm, and recite it in the next assembly. The advantages of such conduct are: Firstly, the poets are motivated to write new poems; secondly, the poets can evaluate themselves in writing poems with the specified rhyming, therefore, finding their weaknesses and compensating for it, and thirdly, the poem written in this way is a memory of an assembly, recalling it whenever recited.

The supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, in his visit with religious poets on 15th June, 2011, referring to the fact that one of the important areas that has received less attention is martyred veterans, and asking poets, in his hints, to get around the subjects such as the Holy Defense and memories of the martyrs said: "One of the things related to war and occupying me is the veterans who become martyrs after some time. This is a special subject. It is different from the martyr who is martyred on the battlefield and is already versified. Such people have experienced something, suffered after it and finally become martyrs. You shall seek subjects like that."

At the end of the visit, one of the poets asked the honored Ayatollah Khamenei to put forward a master verse on which the poets can elaborate. An hour later, the honored Ayatollah Khamenei, wrote a master verse on a piece of paper for the same purpose.

The writing read:
In the name of God, tell the poets to elaborate on this verse, if they like to:
To the martyr veteran:
You stole away craftily a chalice from the heart's (wine) vault
It was crimson as anemone petals, colorful as the tales of heart

The End

Esteemed poets and those interested,
In case you like you poems to be put on this site, you could submit them from the comments part.

According to the Bureau for Protection and Dissemination of Honored Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei's Works and the Islamic Revolution Cultural and Research Institute, there has been something in literature and poetry assemblies from old times called "master verse". A master verse is a verse, the master poet of such assemblies puts forward and asks other poets to write a poem using its theme, rhyming, and rhythm, and recite it in the next assembly. The advantages of such conduct are: Firstly, the poets are motivated to write new poems; secondly, the poets can evaluate themselves in writing poems with the specified rhyming, therefore, finding their weaknesses and compensating for it, and thirdly, the poem written in this way is a memory of an assembly, recalling it whenever recited. The supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, in his visit with religious poets on 15th June, 2011, referring to the fact that one of the important areas that has received less attention is martyred veterans, and asking poets, in his hints, to get around the subjects such as the Holy Defense and memories of the martyrs said: "One of the things related to war and occupying me is the veterans who become martyrs after some time. This is a special subject. It is different from the martyr who is martyred on the battlefield and is already versified. Such people have experienced something, suffered after it and finally become martyrs. You shall seek subjects like that." At the end of the visit, one of the poets asked the honored Ayatollah Khamenei to put forward a master verse on which the poets can elaborate. An hour later, the honored Ayatollah Khamenei, wrote a master verse on a piece of paper for the same purpose. The writing read: In the name of God, tell the poets to elaborate on this verse, if they like to: To the martyr veteran: You stole away craftily a chalice from the heart's (wine) vault It was crimson as anemone petals, colorful as the tales of heart The End Esteemed poets and those interested, In case you like you poems to be put on this site, you could submit them from the comments part.