Understandingly, If I start writing about a million times-heard boring stuff, there is always a chance no one reading my materials, so I try not to go down that road, but I feel like costumes, cuisine, and traditions I’m about to unveil are worth reading about. If you think about it, humanity is a very diverse concept wrapped around the same nature, dancing around the same instinctive fire, but oddly enough its exposed face is as varied as the droplets in the ocean, unbelievably diverse.
19 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
As we step closer to the New Year, with Nowruz just around the corner, I want to say Happy New Year to my fellow citizens and to all who celebrate this beautiful renewal of life, as we call it “Nowruz” in Persian culture. In truth, I wish to say Hap...
5 Jan 2025 1 minute read 25 comments Melina Mehr
It's been a while… To be honest, 2024 was an abhorrent year for me filled with agony, misery& poverty, which I had never undergone in my life. It was almost like living a horrid nightmare, anxiously waiting for it to end. Perhaps, I have forgotten...
22 Oct 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
After things unraveled in my country last autumn, My life took a dark turn AND ever since… The more I explore, the more pain I experience However, the pleasures should not be overlooked either And that is why Our recordings by cameras matter! No...
17 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
I've lost the will to write These ugly days My heart hurts so bad It feels as if Jumping out of the chest Might not be such a bad idea after all! I see Humanity’s rotten… My heart aches And I’m heartbroken with them the same! As if the happiness...
10 Oct 2023 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr
That day, when I stood on top of a peak I never imagined Thousands of thoughts came to mind My brain got full and empty many times As if it wanted In these seconds spent on top of the clouds have the largest share. My thoughts were so explosive a...
30 Sep 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Does it hurt? Just take it slow. Can you hear leaves rustling in the wind's gentle flow? And the soothing touch of tree-shaded reprieve? In these pictures alone, feelings may deceive, Yet sometimes, that's all we need to know. Does it hurt? I und...
28 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr
Yesterday, I strolled through a gallery of winter portraits, I marveled at the state of my soul in those frozen frames. Nostalgia wraps around me like a warm embrace, I yearn for those days of apathetic grace. Back then, I bore a hidden pain, a sile...
24 Sep 2023 1 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr
Beneath the endless aches, where sorrows lie, The morning's visit, waves that roar and sigh, This land, its treasures and all I've found, Still gleams, ablaze, with beauty all around. The boundless blue, it lingers by my side, An extraordinary natu...
7 Sep 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
People change; it's an inherent part of our existence. For me, nature has always served as a wellspring of inspiration, tranquility, and a safe haven. The lush, verdant landscapes, saturated with life-sustaining rain, have a profound effect on my...
12 May 2023 1 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr
With spring spreading greenery and colors in northern Iran, waterfalls are the most desirable natural sights for tourists and local folks to visit the same. Laton Waterfall in Lavandavil village, near Astara city, in the north of Iran, is one of t...
