A LONE SPARROW, an e-collection of 50 haiku, with translation into Arabic

 

https://www.calameo.com/books/0035528310acd5f93da63

 

1

a lone sparrow

atop the naked branch

viewing sunset

 

2

 

wiping his face

under the umbrella

an old man with books

 

3

 

morning glory

fading in a few hours—

splendors of day-star

 

4

 

a dew drop

on the edge of the leaf—

the wind shakes

 

5

 

a sleeping snake

curled between the eggs—

layers of leaves

 

6

 

crowded streets

moving among the years

wretched faces

 

7

 

smell a snake

in the wet grass—

her smile

 

 

 

8

 

they come together

as themselves within themselves—

love’s silence

 

9

 

in silence

one with the divine will

growing within

 

10

 

withdrawn within

sensing infinity

an island

 

11

 

prayer book

covering the glass—

his last drink

 

12

 

mist in the eyes

her back on the chair—

a wry smile

 

13

 

a mosque’s dome

lower than mobile towers:

weaker God’s signals

 

14

 

a soldier

fighting the war

night inside

 

15

 

night bombing

oleander garden

white as death

 

16

 

pigeons fly

for shelter through smoke

blazing windows

 

17

 

on the terrace

facing the sun

an empty chair

 

18

 

her lonely grief

melts in the candle wax

evening’s dark floor

 

19

 

in the diary

searching phone numbers of

friends now alive

 

20

 

unable to change time

my watch doesn’t move

moment at will

 

21

 

measures loneliness

sip by sip

at dining table

 

22

 

a dead leaf hangs

by a spider’s thread

invisible in sun

 

23

 

cleaning the remains

of burnt out earthen lamps—

dusky temple yard

 

24

 

moon energy

fills up the inner space—

call to wake up

 

25

 

making lemon tea

and warm buttery toast—

birds singing outside

 

26

 

hitching up the skirt

she fills her pockets with

unripe mangoes

 

27

 

on a cycle

he sells bouquets and roses

peddling dreams

 

28

 

float over the hill

the autumn circle of smoke—

her long hair streaming

 

29

 

candling in vein

leave marks of teeth on her neck

utter holiness

 

30

 

after cleaning

the maid leaves behind

an oily smell

 

31

 

she hides the mirror

with rose and lipstick

and keeps her fiction

 

32

 

bedside—

our night clothes

await washing

 

33

 

a crescent

in the western horizon—

missing the moon

 

34

 

after the party

empty chairs in the lawn—

new moon and I

 

35

 

is there a release

from unloving life day by day

breathing heartless air?

 

36

 

aged sensations

lord over memory:

deeper sorrows

 

37

 

a load of wood

on her frail back

autumn evening

 

38

 

the lone mushroom—

a pregnant woman

stares out of the window

 

39

 

ripe on the branches

mangoes fall one by one

end of the season

 

40

 

drowsy eyes

sun behind the clouds

dreams wrapped up

 

41

 

a little toddler

with her fey appearance:

a woodland sprite

 

42

 

painting mom’s smile

with broken crayons—

smiling Winny

 

43

 

winter holidays—

my son chases butterflies

flower to flower

 

44

 

a cloud eagle

curves to the haze

in the west

 

45

 

sea waves

roll from far away

white peaks

 

46

 

travelling back

from the waves of bliss

a foam-leap

 

47

 

the mirror is so small

I can’t see the ocean

beyond my own look

 

48

 

I know roaring waves

I live through silence of shore:

the sea grows in me

 

49

 

making holes

in the wooden cross

white ants

 

50

 

sky’s dark patches—

I live with earth’s rhythm

liberation

 

Translated into Arabic by Boubaker Rouagha

Edited by Mahmoud Al-Rajabi

Published by Haiku From All the World, March 2021