newroz piroz beoff to the market the icy wind knifes right through feelings of spring garden chimes ringing out march winds my aquarium family gold fish deliriously unaware of the cold outside march cold wet week and one sunny day today newroz piroz be police embargo picnic baskets and beach blankets "newroz piroz be" is Kurdish for Happy New Year. Vernal Equinox, March 21 is the traditional Anatolian Middle Eastern New Years Day. Traditionally the emperor (Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman) led his whole palace out to the park for a picnic, and socially prominent wealthy family's all had specially built gazebos for their annual spring picnic... Zoroastrians relit the sacred fire. Parsi and Alevi boys jump over bonfires. Newroz is literally older than history. The Persian emperor before Alexander the Great personally relit the fire. Abraham (aws) was thrown into the fire but it became for him a rose garden. Daniel (aws) danced in the fire. Today they use diesel instead of bonfires, sometimes. diesel fumes waft from the newroz fires everyone old ladies and babies dancing fifteen hundred years old the Roman walls boys beat out the rhythms on drums police in riot gear all around surrounding the picnickers smiling his peace sign teenager in a wheelchair wearing his newroz bandana in full blossom cherry trees all along the railroad tracks |