99 Balloons in Black and White

By Parvis Hejazi Arasteh

This book is a message to every person with good intent to help making a world of peace, no racial and color differences, love to each other keeping our planet safe of damage for us and the generation to come. Our beautiful nature is not given to us to be destroyed, it is essential for our life and life of future .

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9781667885827

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Copyright © 2023 by Parvis Hejazi Arasteh

99 Balloons in Black and White

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Contains Poems from Ukraine

Print ISBN: 978-1-66788-581-0

eBook ISBN: 978-1-66788-582-7

Printed in the United States of America

In memory of my beloved: Dad, Mom, Louise

My brother, Sirous, My friend Jorge Pastor

Contents

About the Author

Hope

You Will Never Walk Alone

I Cried for You

VISIONS

Taking Leave from Chapters of Life

I Know you

The Unfinished Dreams

An Ant in an Ocean

At Square of Village

My Ways

Embracing the Peace

Universe Peace

Always Strong

What Will Be

What You Got will be Taken Away

Author Thought

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Inside My Dream

They Did Not Care

Golden Roads 

Always on My Mind

Visit of White Sparrow

Why?

When It Is Dark

Places I have loved

The Existence of all Existences

The Moment

The Beginning and the End

The Limit of Love

Simurgh (Thirty Birds)

Where?

Brocken Nostalgy

The Last Goodbye?

Ending

Rainbow Bird

The Hard World

You and Me

Inside Me

Human or Animal

When . . .

The Ten Parts of My Life

The Song for Peace

Only an Instant

Broken Hope?

From Outside to Inside

Love is on Your Side

Get Up and Dance

Other Side of Rainbow

Let Me Free . . .

Each Day One Motive to Live the Life

Don’t Trust the First impression

My Country Road

What must happen will happen

Be Condor, be not Crow

An Angel Underway

Black and White

Jumping Jack [Hampel Man]

Black Crow

A Beautiful Pain

Dreams I Want to Dream

Places I have loved

Spirituality is Life

My Butterflies

Either King or Poor

The Dream of Today and Yesterday

Visit of Ladybug

The Highlight of a New Life

When We Were Young

The Condor Passes

Hello Spring

Picture

Jumping Over Black Hole

The Light You Can’t See

Way of Fate

Magic Word

Millions and Millions of Years

The World Now and Then

The Shining Bridge Over Troubled Water

Be a Powerful Bird

I Will Not Forget You

Cute Little Girl

See and Feel

Remember Me

This Little Light

Love You Back

The Voice of Silence

Mother’s Love

No Regret

YOU GAVE ME YOUR HAND

Take Me Home

Smiles

Twelve lessons for life

Emerald Green Garden of Peace

Nature and High Tech

When you come to me

The Face of Your Soul

C’est La Vie

There will be a place

Peace in Us

Give my Message

There Comes a Moment

Don’t Harm

Why?

Keeping Nice Memories

The Color of Peace

Small Things

Looking back to the Past

The Believer

Don’t Run Away 

You Always Gave Me Your Hand

Why ME God

My World

Castle on Cloud

May it Be . . .

The Color of Love

The Best of Best of You

BARBARA

LEGEND

White Night

You Are My Condor, Daniel

First Loves

Walk to Me

I Am not Going Anywhere

Chasing a Dream

Bright star

Four Loveliest Women

The Reason

Dreaming a Dream

Sun and Moon

Why You Won’t Come Again

I Got the Good News

My Moonlight

Silence & Smile

If You Would Be Here

VALENTINE’S DAY

We Will See Each Other Again and Again

Weak or Strong

Forgive Them

A Tiny Piece of a Puzzle

But why?

Heart and Mind

Mirror

Forgetting

Eyes

I Would Like

Why Not

Not Only as a Dream

Hello or Goodbye

Love and Butterfly

Life &Friendship

One and Another One

To Move is to Grow

You are Still here, My Pequi

The Warmth of a Hug

Behind the Moment

A Nice Dream

Everything is Relative

You cannot see

I am in Doubt

Two Brothers

One for all, all for One

I am Still Strong

Killing a Piece of Nature 

Don’t Cry for Me

Those Summer Days

About the Author

The author of this book is living in California USA. He is an American citizen. He attended university in Vienna, Austria and graduated in chemistry. He completed higher studies in France and the USA. He spent his youth in Vienna and married Louise from Vienna. They had two wonderful children, Peter and Barbara, who are now living in Vienna.

His professional life was colorful and full of achievements. He worked as a high officer in 9 countries, mainly for a multinational Swiss company Ciba. He visited about 45 countries during his activities. He worked as high manager in companies in France, Iran, Ecuador, Guatemala, Hong Kong, and China. During his activities, he carried out 32 technical speeches around the globe and wrote 45 articles for magazines and newspapers. He is fluent in five languages.

After the tragic loss of his first wife, he married Catalina, and they have a nice boy named Daniel, who is a medicine student in Cornell University, New York. This book is a reflection of his observations and feelings about his life and the lives of so many people and places he knew during his long life. The poems, like paintings, depict the landscape of lives from different locations. They are real witnesses of human feelings in an honest way. They are the true stuff of our lives in realistic, surrealistic, romantic, and symbolic styles.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Plutarch.

Hope

Between your many past friends

there is only one who

never has stopped or changed;

this is your Hope.

when, the moon in the bright sky,

has traveled this route every night,

was your friend in your thoughts.

You wished to travel with her to overall.

She was your friend in your infancy time.

But as you grew up,

you realized

this was only a wish,

an illusion from a little child.

The little cute friends on playground

were your friends

for the time you were played around.

As a student, the friendship was much stronger

with loyalty, passion to each other at any time,

but the end of the school had dispersed all,

only wistful memories had remained

for so many delights,

joys and real friendship as it were.

Later in adult life,

your family was your real friend

who replaced the absence of so many past friends.

There is only one authentic friend in your entire life

who stood with you from infancy as your real friend,

never left you, never missed you

was always on your side,

in good and bad times.

This loyal friend is your Hope.

He never will die or disappear.

This Hope is different from the Hope

mentioned in Puccini’s great opera work

Nessun Dorma and the question of Turandot

to Calaf to save his life or not

what is born each night and dies each down

Calaf answered Hope.

You Will Never Walk Alone

You were from childhood never alone

You crossed so many rivers to get to other side

You had always the bridge that only you saw

You had the hand that always raised you up

On so many roads, crook or straight

You never walk alone

When the days were dark like night

You did not see the sky with no stars

The hope gave you the strength

The helpful hand gave you drive

You could see where you are stand

You never walk alone

You had the help of the universe’s hand

When you were sitting in the room of exam

You never walk alone

When you was older age

You lost the vision, your strength

To get up

You lost the ability to talk

You lost the ability to walk

The universe’s hand gave you the halt

To save you from danger and harm

Walked with you in tempo slow

But you again could make your walk

Not alone, not rush

But you walk.

Dedicated To:

President Volodymyr Zelensky

The Nation of Ukraine

I Cried for You

I cried not only once

I cried many times

I cried for a nice land,

A land I knew from school time.

I cried for the people of Ukraine,

The people I have never seen

With such bravery, such heroism.

I cried for cute little boys and girls

Who left everything they had

Their playground converted to battlegrounds

They must leave their homes, their friends

In so young age, be refugees in another land

Leave their favorite places, their school’s fields

Behind them, may never see them again.

I prayed for their young leader,

A leader who you can never imagine

With such high courage and keen.

I prayed for those babies and mothers

For old and young. They lost everything

fighting the moments to overcome the act of a devil.

I cried for that baby born two days ago

I cried for his mother, who was rescued onc

From bombardment of the maternity hospital

Giving birth in another hospital the next day

Mother and babies lived only two days together;

They were killed with the second bombardment.

I saw blurred the pictures of cruelty

The cruelty of an unnecessary war

The tears made it impossible

To see clear the immense destruction