Nahid Ensafpour, (Iran, Germany, 1961), She is a bilingual writer, poet and translator, who was born in Tehran. Since 1985 she lives in Germany/Köln. In April 2015, she completed the correspondence course “Literary Writing” at the Cornelia Goethe Academy, Frankfurt/Main and graduated with a diploma. She studied New German Literature and Philosophy at the Fern-Universität Hagen. Her poems have been published in numerous German and international anthologies. Many of her poems have been translated into several languages. She is a member of the World Writers’ Association “Licio Poetico de Benidorm”, as well as a member of the Schiller Association Leipzig and the Hainburger Writers’ Association Austria. She is a member of PEN Club in Austria. In 2016, she was a prize winner at the poetry festival in Rödermark/ Germany.
She has published the following: (2014) Book of poems “Brennende Sehnsucht”, Frankfurter Verlag,(2016) Poetry collection “Gesang des Augenblicks”, Frankfurter Verlag, (2018) Poetry collection published together with Peter Völker “Sonnentanz und Nachtschatten”, Engelsdorfer Leipzig,(2019) Book of poems “Leise weht das Wort dahin,” Engelsdorfer Leipzig, (2020) Book of poems “Poetry overcomes boundaries”.

Freedom

Like a caterpillar
shedding its
skin in
its tender
metamorphosis
to a butterfly
so am I
perpetually
shedding my skin
each time
in fear
that I shall
lose myself

Yet still
I always
find my way to
freedom