My Paper Dreams

My Paper Dreams investigates deep, existential concepts. Shahab Mogharabin searches for lost dreams in the life-throttling vacuum of time. The poems in My Paper Dreams open life’s most impossible, intangible doors and bring life to the forefront of the imagination. The poet acts as both observer and incitor. The poet is lonely. The poet reckons with feelings formed from what is inevitable: Death.

Mogharabin’s poetry has a deep concern towards decay and annihilation. It stands up to the dark side of human existence in favor of a life filled with beauty, peace and tranquility. Love and solitude motivate many of the poems, with a sharp focus on a society that has lost its values and its intimacy -- Shahab Magahrabin writes with love, with the hope that love prevails despite the troubling state of the world.