Fereydoon Moshiri ( fa, فریدون مشیری; September 21, 1926 – October 24, 2000) was one of the prominent contemporary

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem. A selection of his poems has been translated into English entitled ''With All my Tears'' by Ali Salami. Some of his other published works are as follows: * 1957, ''Gonah-e Darya'' (''The Sin of the Sea'') * 1958, ''Nayafteh'' (''Undiscovered'') * 1960, ''Abr'' (''The Cloud'') * 1970, ''Parvaz Ba Khorshid'' (''Flying With the Sun'') * 1978, ''Bahar ra Bavar Kon'' (''Believe the Spring'') * 1988, ''Ah Baran'' (''Oh, the Rain'') * 2001, ''Ta Sobh-e Tabnak-e Ahura'ii'' (''Until the Bright of Ahuric Dawn'')

Last years

Fereydoon Moshiri had been suffering from

leukaemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ...

and

kidney failure Kidney failure, also known as end-stage kidney disease, is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as eit ...

for five years and died in "Tehran Clinic" hospital on October 24, 2000 at the age of 74.

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Fereydoon Moshiri
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Iran Chamber Society

* ''Koucheh'' (Alley), a poem written and read by Fereydoon Moshiri, (4 min 6 sec).
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moshiri, Fereydoun 20th-century Iranian poets Persian-language poets People from Tehran 1926 births 2000 deaths Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra 20th-century poets Iranian male poets 20th-century male writers Deaths from cancer in Iran Deaths from leukemia